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.
Add to cartFrances de Pontes Peebles is the author of the award-winning novels The Seamstress and The Air You Breathe. She is a 2020 Creative Writing Fellow in Literature from The National Endowment for the Arts. A native of Pernambuco, Brazil, she holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Zoetrope: All-Story, Missouri Review, Indiana Review, and Guernica.
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