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April 22, 2022 Writing Class Notes Leave a comment FIctionmemoirNonfictionTellling a story

Creative and Nonfiction Class April 20, 2022

I believe that this material about the construction of good stories is equally important for memoir writing as fiction because a memoir is nothing more than one of many stories we have lived through.

March 5, 2022 Uncategorized, Writing Class Notes Leave a comment a writer's liabilityFIctionhistorical fictionmemoirMotives in story-tellingNonfiction

Creative and Memoir Writing Class Notes  March 2, 2022 by Carol Brennan King

We must consider the people who share or impacted our story and how our writing about them impacts them. We can hurt feelings. Does that matter? Do we have enough distance to be rational about what happened?

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Uncategorized, Writing Class Notes, Writing Resources Leave a comment Character arcDialoguememoir

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.

December 10, 2019 Writing Class Notes, Writing Resources 1 Comment Historical nonfictionmemoir

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.

July 10, 2019 MY BLOG Leave a comment book reviewinfluencememoirwriter lesson

A Book Review: Men We Reaped

I just don’t think we should read this book and go from its pages unchanged.

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