Where do you begin your life story and how do you guarantee it is interesting to others?
With ten crucial tips and in-class writing prompts, learn how to capture your life on the page scene by scene. From point-of-entry to transformative conclusion, you will find your story subjects, create tension, and most of all, meaning— so that the story you tell is the one that most mattered.
Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it).
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- Where to find your subjects
- How to include humor and pathos
- How to make those stories of universal interest to readers
- The elements of craft that make your work potent and polished
Time requirements
- No time required outside of class.
Materials
- All reading materials will be provided.
Who should take this workshop?
- Writers in search of the best approach to telling their stories, who want the quality of their work to be publishable whether or not that is the goal, who need help finding and honing stories that are true, humorous, and moving, both individually and as a means to a memoir.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
