- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Subscriber Member Pricing: $35.00
- Basic Member Pricing: $40.00
- Category
- Genre
- Plotting
- Writer's Life
Everyone has a story to tell. If you’ve ever thought of writing yours but don't know where to begin, this workshop is for you!
Be prepared to be amazed and impressed in this very interactive and fun workshop will add a productive zing to your summer. There is no better time to write your memoir than in the summer.
Irene will take you through a series of simple and fun day-by-day exercises that show you the way. And yes, it can all be done within a month! There is no better way to make sense of different parts of your life. There is a cathartic feeling to making sense of your life and your past. And memoir writing can give you this, one day at a time.
In this class, Irene will:
Be prepared to be amazed and impressed in this very interactive and fun workshop will add a productive zing to your summer. There is no better time to write your memoir than in the summer.
Irene will take you through a series of simple and fun day-by-day exercises that show you the way. And yes, it can all be done within a month! There is no better way to make sense of different parts of your life. There is a cathartic feeling to making sense of your life and your past. And memoir writing can give you this, one day at a time.
In this class, Irene will:
- Show you the inexplicable things that make a compelling narrative of your life
- Guide you to zero in on one or two main parts of your life
- Lead you through simple daily exercises to get the creative juices flowing
- Help you come to terms with key parts of your life
- Outline
- During the workshop, you’ll figure out the major themes of your life, do some soul searching for dramatic incidents, stitch your assignments together into a compelling plot and polish your prose into believable dialogue and exciting action.
- You will have a chance to converse with other people in the group through our forum.
- We will also have one live chat during this month, somewhere in the middle of the workshop.
- We will take some time to get to know each other during the chat and you can ask me any questions that you wish.
- There will be weekly assignments and to be most successful, you will have to complete them and submit for correction.
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
