![]() ![]() Joyce Maynard will meet her writing students exactly where many of us find ourselves stranded: at that point in the road where our creative impulse and need for expression begins to lose breath but our sense of story and good writing habits may falter. ![]() Listen to the sound and rhythm of your sentences.Develop the arc of a sentence, a paragraph and a story.Deal with loneliness and find your tribe.Get over your fears of revealing embarrassing truths about yourself.Decide on a point of view, a point of entry and a structure.Figure out what to include in your story and what to cut out.Understand the difference between telling what happened and exploring your journey.Finally, she’ll address the challenges of the writing life, such as how to create a productive practice, design a comfortable writing space, deal with rejection and find an audience. She’ll then help you develop your story through language, story structure, dramatic tension, dialogue, description and editing. Maynard will begin by walking you through the process of identifying your story and how best to tell it. But no matter how compelling your story might seem, it won’t resonate with readers unless you’re able to effectively translate your concept onto the page.Ĭelebrated journalist, novelist and memoirist Joyce Maynard will give you the tools you need to transform your brilliant idea into an absorbing memoir that readers won’t be able to put down. Short on time? This class is available HERE as a Fast Class, exclusively for CreativeLive subscribers.Įveryone’s got a story to tell. ![]()
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