WEBINAR | Making Memoir Real: Captivate Your Readers with Dynamic Settings & Characters
June 3 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Dropping our readers into a particular time, a particular place, populated by particular people, is essential to making readers care about our stories. Learn to create vibrant, convincing reality on the page.
For Memoirist and Essay Writers
Memoir is a juggling act. As writers, our job is to bring the potent emotional stakes of our story to the page right from the beginning, introducing conflicts and launching the book’s dynamic journey. But equally important is establishing the story’s reality and dropping our readers into a particular time, a particular place, populated by particular people. This is how readers begin to care deeply and invest their hearts in our work.
This interactive webinar will closely examine the techniques of setting and characterization—often taught in fiction workshops—and how important they are to memoir. We will study the difference between mere “description” and active, dynamic detail and movement. Prompts will be provided for new work and for work-in-progress.
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- DISCOVER how to transplant readers directly into the world of your memoir through vivid, specific detail
- LEARN the craft of characterization techniques borrowed from fiction and applied to true stories
- IDENTIFY the difference between static description and dynamic, active detail that propels your narrative forward
- PRACTICE writing prompts designed to deepen both new work and works-in-progress
- EXPLORE how to establish emotional stakes early while simultaneously grounding readers in time, place, and character
This webinar is ideal for writers at any level who…
- would like their work to immediately capture attention, to engage agents, editors and—most of all—readers
- struggle with “Why would anyone care about my story?”
- worry their prose is moving too slowly, that they may be “explaining too much” and showing too little
- are insecure about their storytelling skills (that’s all of us)!
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
One of our most popular and beloved presenters, DINTY W. MOORE, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Short Reads, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity, the journal of flash nonfiction.
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