Class Notes: Day 1 Introduction and defining our genres. In this class we talked about two related genres: Memoir and Historical Fiction. I am defining Memoir as a slice of your life, focusing on a single period of your life or a theme that threaded through your life over perhaps a longer time. Let’s consider…Read more Memoir and Historical Fiction Notes from 3/4/2020 Carol Brennan King
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Keep watching because I will add more resources, mostly dependent on either what I need or what my students need.
Memoir Summary December 12, 2019
A memoir is more than an autobiography or record of what you did or what happened to you over the course of your life. An autobiography is a broad look at your life. Think of a theme as “What this book is about,” or “What holds these stories together.
8 Ways To Use Movie Watching To Improve Your Writing December 4, 2019
If you take note of when and how these different techniques are used, you can apply them to your writing.
Ending Your Story or Book Nov. 20, 2019
A great ending is all in the build-up.
Character Arc Notes November 13, 2019
The arc is the emotional or psychological growth, transformation and development of your character
November 6, 2019 Character Development
Just like real people, our characters have emotional inner worlds. Even if this world consists of a lack of emotion (or rather, of the ability to show emotion), this is still an emotional quality.
Class 6, October 30, 2019 Writing scene breaks and transitions that develop your story
What is a scene break? Scene breaks can occur any time you change location, time period, or character POV in a story.
October 16, 2019: Class Notes, Creative Writing and Memoir
What should a third chapter do?
Class Notes October 9, 2019
In short: showing illustrates, while telling merely states.
Class 2 October 2, 2019 Creative Writing and Memoir Writing Notes
5 goals for the first chapter
Carol's Notes 