Intro to Writing Memoir: Part I* Discovering Your Stories [Theo Nestor]
All Levels | Do you want to write about your life, but you’re not sure where to begin? Or maybe you know where to begin — you’ve begun a thousand times already — but aren’t sure where to head next. The primary focus of this class will be to help you to discover your personal themes and narratives and to introduce you to the memoir genre. Discovering Your Stories is a generative class that will offer tons of prompts and writing activities and ideas for taking the starts you write in class and developing them. We will also look at short examples of memoir writing in class together. Bring your notebook and pen or charged laptop.
* – “Discovering Your Stories” is the first in the three-part Intro to Writing Memoir series. In Winter, “Intro to Writing Memoir, Part II: Developing Your Stories” will run for ten weeks in the same time slot with the same instructor, and in Spring the final ten-week course in the series will be offered: “Intro to Writing Memoir, Part III: Structuring and Sharing Your Stories.” Take one or all three. Priority registration will be offered for the Winter and Spring series courses to students in enrolled in Part I. Registration for the annual one-day Publishing Intensive will be included for all students registered in Part III.
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