So your characters must not sound like you; they must sound like who they are, reflecting their education, life place and experience, and perhaps their family of origin. In general, everything we experience has a part in the development of our voice.
Creative Writing and Nonfiction Writing Class Notes
June 9, 2021 Carol Brennan King Let’s start with the writing prompts for this week, and this should be especially helpful for those of you who could not make it to class last week. You can use either one of the prompts given below or continue writing on a project you are currently working on…Read more Creative Writing and Nonfiction Writing Class Notes
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing Classes Notes from June 2, 2021 for June 9, 2021 by Carol Brennan King Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, As you know my brother passed last Wednesday, and I had to miss our afternoon class at the library. I am hoping that this week’s class goes well, and I am hoping…Read more
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing
This will be a different post, with resources I mentioned in class and some new ones that you may find helpful now and in the future.
Creative and Memoir Writing Class Notes
By Carol Brennan King April 14, 2021 Creative Writing In Creative Writing today, we talked about some writing exercises for richer character, material that came originally from https://www.nownovel.com/blog/creative-writing-exercises-character/ Today we discussed the first three exercises. Play ‘head, and shoulders, knees, and toes.’ Think about what your character looks like, starting at the head, then downwards,…Read more Creative and Memoir Writing Class Notes
Creative and Memoir Writing Class Notes
Instead of thinking, “I want my reader to feel sad,” I needed to show how I felt the day I learned another girl thought of my boyfriend as hers. I sat in his car outside my school and told him I would not play second fiddle to anyone, and I cried, ...
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing Class Notes March 31, 2021
Remember, however, that the story’s action and its characters are vehicles through which the reader creates her own emotional experience. AND the goal is not to get the readers to feel everything as the character does but to stimulate the reader to consider his or her own response.
Creative Writing and Memoir Writing
Creative Writing and Memoir Classes March 24, 2021 This first part of our class notes today is to all of you! You are writers. Do you behave that way? Do you plan your day for writing? I am suggesting that you set an appointment with yourself and your writing space three to five days a…Read more Creative Writing and Memoir Writing
Creative and Memoir Writing March 17, 2021
When you are writing memoirs, your job is to recreate dialogue, not create it. Sometimes, that means you cannot remember exactly what you said. In that situation, you can recreate it, getting as close as you can to what actually was said and what and how your character would have said it.
Creative Writing and Memoir/Nonfiction Writing Class Notes
March 10, 2021 Taught by Carol Brennan King Creative Writing: today we focused on using white space, lines, and punctuation as tools to help us communicate our stories. We also talked about how using breath units, or the words we want to be read in one breath, help us reach our reader to interpret the…Read more Creative Writing and Memoir/Nonfiction Writing Class Notes
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