Crafting the Memoir in Pieces: Building a Coherent Book from Fragments
In writing a memoir in pieces or fragments, compression is just as important as elongation--and juxtapositions tell the story.
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Mining Your Life for Laughs
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Tap into your unique perspective for humor only you can write.
Write Better, Right Now
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You’ve structured your narrative and know your facts--but how do you make your story sing?
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The Art of Applying: Finding Funding & Demystifying Guidelines
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Who couldn't use some extra time or money to start or finish a writing project? Come learn tips and tricks for your next funding application.
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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Using Facts to Fascinate
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Worried you'll bore readers by incorporating facts in your creative nonfiction? Make researched material work for you!
Speculative Memoir: Making Space for the Imagined and Unexplained
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Are you speculative-memoir-curious? Learn how speculative elements can enhance your work and welcome your imagination back home!
Showing v. Telling: Deconstructing the Situation & the Story
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Writers learn early on to "show, don't tell," but both are necessary. So, how much of each, and why?
The Writer’s Voice: Stretching Your Craft in Personal Nonfiction
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Uncertain about handling emotional nuances in your material? Start your journey of crafting a rich, flexible writer's voice
Ready, Set, Submit! Personal Essay Workshop
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Develop, write, and edit a publishable personal essay in six weeks, while building community.
Collage Memoir: Arranging The Ephemera
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Learn to find and tie together the theme in your vignettes, letters, diary entries and more, to create meaning, continuity and flow.
The Magic of Micro Prose: Find Your Story in 300 Words or Less
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Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.
Power Your Memoir with Mystery: How Curiosity Fuels Craft
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The fuel that runs the engine of all good writing is our uncertainty…and the true curiosity of the writer