WEBINAR | Essential Questions: Unlock Your Writing’s Power
WEBINAR | Essential Questions: Unlock Your Writing’s Power
July 2 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Enhance your writing and engage your audience with the power of essential questions that captivate and connect with readers.
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Memoir, Fiction and Screenplays
Elizabeth Gilbert credits the runaway success of “Eat, Pray, Love” to her essential question—“What if my life belonged to me?” It worked for her—let’s make it work for you. To capture the attention of a broader audience and make your writing resonate more deeply with readers, discover the transformative power of essential questions to elevate your storytelling and expand your readership.
In this webinar, we’ll examine essential questions in bestselling works, primarily focusing on memoir, with a sprinkling of fiction and film. We’ll discuss the difference between implicit and explicit questions and explore techniques for placing these questions in your scenes and narrative.
You’ll finish this webinar equipped with an expansive list of essential questions and the motivation and inspiration to use them to elevate your writing today!
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- EXAMINE the nuts and bolts of craft in notable examples of memoir and essay about loss, grief, and trauma
- EXPLORE narrative balance of research, memory, and imagination
- DEVELOP confidence in your right to write your version of events
This webinar is a great fit for writers of fiction & nonfiction including screenwriters who are…
- Looking to enhance their storytelling skills and engage readers more deeply.
- Seeking new strategies to broaden their audience and increase their work’s appeal.
- Wanting to stand out in a competitive market by using essential questions to convince agents, editors, and publishers that there’s a readership for their work.
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Jennifer Leigh Selig is an LBGTQ+ teacher, international speaker, book publisher, and author whose writing and teaching career spans four decades. She’s the author of dozens of newspaper articles, book reviews, essays, journal articles, short stories, screenplays, and books, including the Nautilus Gold award-winning book, Deep Creativity: Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit, The Writer’s Block Workbook: A Psychologist’s Guide to Working With and Through Writer’s Block, and Deep Memoir: An Archetypal Approach to Deepen Your Story and Broaden Its Appeal.
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