Remember, your memoir should have a takeaway. It should have some bits that your reader could identify with.
Writing Resources
Playing with Poetry May 2020
...students did remarkable work. I wish you could have been there via Zoom to hear what they produced in the few minutes allotted to group work.
Flash Fiction Workshop May 6, 2020
Maybe the old man was crazy. Maybe he should call the police, or at least, check with the old guy’s wife, or maybe he should just go over there and see if he could help somehow.
The Class Ends, But the Writing Goes On
“Li,” he said. “If you see a snake, just scream ‘Li’, and a Chadian will come and kill it.”
You must start somewhere!
I can't tell you what a help it is to have a built-in editor who highlights spelling errors or punctuation errors and tells you how to fix them?
So Let’s Talk About Editing!
Before you get into the four types of editing, I cannot emphasize a couple of practices you should adopt.
Conflict: The Life Blood of Every Story April 11, 2020
Watch for the arrival of conflict and how it affects people and how they deal with it. This exercise will help you a great deal when you write your own stories.
Writing Humor
But we don’t have to live in that darkness and sadness and dread. We are forgetting one of God’s greatest gifts to us: humor.
Pandemic: Writing It Real: For Fiction and Nonfiction Students
I’d never really seen someone steal before, and I wasn’t sure what to do. All I could think of was that poor old lady. That poor old lady.
Fiction Writing, Day 2: STORY
. Climax or major event where the main character faces the key or greatest conflict revealing who the character is on the way to becoming and who is his or her antagonist or greatest obstacle.
Carol's Notes 