Writing Workshop - Strategies for Telling Your Life Story

Strategies for Telling Your Life Story

Whether you're interested in writing essays, a memoir, a short story or novel, this class will teach you the basics of telling stories inspired by your own life. Everyone has a story to tell. In this class, you'll learn how to dig into key events in your life—from moments of great joy to the most confounding or traumatic—and turn them into the stories you've been longing to tell. Instructor Andrea Meyer assigns readings and writing exercises to explore such topics as how to describe emotion; transforming your self, friends and family into characters; how to write scenes; basic essay structure; and learning to show AND tell. You will walk away with the pieces necessary to launch your writing project. Memoir excerpts and essays might include Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz; Wild by Cheryl Strayed; The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch; The Fourth Estate…