There are as many different ways to approach memoir as there are memories, so this class will not assume any priority of form, but is designed to give writers looking to imagine, draft, and / or revise a book-length memoir the inspiration and tools to give a book its own life.
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Writing a novel can feel like rehabbing a huge, intimidating house, but you can do it as long as you prepare. This class will give you the tools and---most importantly---the confidence to use those tools to your advantage.
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Discover the elements at the heart of all good fiction and nonfiction in this eight-session introduction to creative writing. It's your first step on the path to writing the stories or essays you've always wanted to tell.
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In this single-session class, we’ll tap into our curiosity to generate story ideas. The aim is to accelerate the process from first spark to finished draft.
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This one-session course will take you through a rigorous but playful back-to-the-basics study of character in fiction. You’ll leave this class with practical and immediately applicable ideas for character in your current fiction projects, no matter where you are in the process.
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It’s a challenge that comes up for every memoirist at some point: how to write compellingly and creatively about real life, when real life includes your own private existence and the lives of other people.
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In this PJ Seminar, we will get curious about flashbacks. How can we write flashbacks that propel a story rather than paralyze it?
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In this class, I will explore that line between sentimentality and emotion in fiction.
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$70.00 · May 4
When writing fiction, we often think of character, of plot, of tone and voice, but in this craft seminar, I want to focus on stuff
| Start Date | May 4 |
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| Day(s) of the Week | Thursday |
| Class Times | 7:00pm – 9:00pm CT |
| Sessions | 1 |
| Location | Zoom (online) |
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| Price | $70 |
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Manuel Gonzales is the author of the novel The Regional Office is Under Attack! and the acclaimed story collection The Miniature Wife, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program, he teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Believer. Gonzales lives in Kentucky with his wife and two children.
In this class, writers will draw the reader in by considering characters’ bodily experience.
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This workshop examines the intersections of memory and research in crafting memoir and personal essays.
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In this class we'll talk about how to develop a relationship to our own work that allows us to discriminate, incorporating workshop and manuscript feedback that serves us, while letting what doesn't roll off our backs.
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Have you ever wondered how to transform your adventures into compelling stories? This course will help you turn those trips into tales.
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