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, ...
Writing Resources
I love writing, but I also love teaching writing and encouraging or coaching other writers. This part of my website is the natural outgrowth of that passion.
From time-to-time, I will add information or websites that I hope other writers might find useful, like this one from Purdue University:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/index.html
The owl at the beginning of the URL mean Online Writing Lab and it is the creation of Purdue University. This particular part of their site is the introduction to Creative Writing resources. If you look to your left, you will see just a glimpse of all the great resources available to you here.
Keep watching because I will add more resources, mostly dependent on either what I need or what my students need.
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 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
7 Tips for Literary Fiction and Nonfiction Writers
The emphasis in on the character, his or her feelings, motivations, and interior life. A clear plot may exist but the interior life of the character is of as much importance as is the plot in importance.
Creative Writing and Memoir Class Notes
Yes, memoirs are still the stories of our family or our own stories, our history, but they may also overlap with some of the perspectives seen in fiction.
Creative Writing and Memoir Class February 17, 2021 Carol Brennan King
Although the majority of the text looks like what you expect, periodically the writer shifts into a different layout to show how a character, usually the protagonist, sees the scene.
Trying Something New in our Creative Writing and Memoir Classes
prompts can free our creativity, giving us opportunities to think about different words and how to use them in fresh ways. Then we talked about How to use prompts.
Spring Creative and Memoir Writing: Our New Normality Returns
As you write your story or your scene, think about what you see, smell, feel, hear, and even taste, if there is a tray of cookies waiting in your scene.
Creative Writing/Memoir Class Notes
It's important to note that guidelines may vary a little based on who you talk to or what you read, but by following the ones stated above, you will ensure sure that your manuscript looks clean, is easy to read and won't get rejected because of sloppy formatting.
