Map Your Memoir: Structure Your Story from Start to Finish
You have a story burning inside – something you’ve experienced and overcome, or perhaps a family story that needs to be told and preserved for future generations.
MASTERCLASS | Essential Tools of Narrative: Scene, Summary & Reflection
Learn how the three essential tools of storytelling–scene, summary, reflection–work together to create a powerful narrative.
MASTERCLASS | Seven Ways to Rivet Your Reader: Create Lively, Engaging & More Saleable Fiction and Nonfiction
Many writers have strong language skills—the writing is beautiful. But to attract readers, it’s helpful to stop writing, and spend time crafting ways to engage the reader’s attention from start to finish.
MASTERCLASS | Writing Your Way Home: Where the Story Resides
Homes protect us, they contain us, they extend us, they release us. They also shape us. Memoir helps show us how.
Dark Truths: Five Tools for Crafting Compelling Mental Health Narratives
Mental health stories speak to our darkest truths and teach us what it means to be human. Learn five craft tools for telling your own.
Micro Memoir: Writing and Publishing Tiny True Stories
Delicious to read, devilishly difficult to write, micro memoir requires great story-telling skill and evocative language.
MASTERCLASS | Character Development: Writing the Other
We have been made of people, shaped by people, defined by people, and defined ourselves in opposition to or in allegiance with people. Can we ever be truly alone on our memoir pages?
From Itch to Pitch: Start Writing for Parenting Publications
Want to write for parenting publications but need help figuring out where to start?
The Secrets of Structure: Shaping Your Powerful, Publishable Novel or Memoir
You’ve got a beautiful, wild, and free first draft…now what?
Diving Deeply: Using Research to Explore, Expand, and Revise Your Work
Whether you write true stories, fiction, or poetry, research can be a multifaceted tool to explore, expand, and revise your work.