Articles Tagged ‘memoir class’

On Line Master Class

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On Line Master Class

This is an advanced class, as good as taking a teaching with me in person, and it covers detailed explanation of the necessary tools you need to be a fine storyteller. …

Writing Tip #20: Setting the Scene

Painters, like Monet, understand that location is “everything.” Afterall, without a location, what would they paint? Location is what holds people, events, experience and without location, there is nothing but emptiness.

As a writer, using words on the canvas …

Writing Tip #18: 16 Editing Tips

Blatantly stolen from: Tips for Writing Well by Austin Govella

My advice: Print this and keep it near your writing space.

Be vicious when you edit. Vicious. Follow these recommendations with zealous fervor. They help your writing …

Writing Tip #17: Back to Scene

As Brenda Miller writes in her book, Tell it Slant, scene is the backbone of creative nonfiction. There are exceptions but not many. Yet people are still under the misguided perception that creative nonfiction is actually a kind of free association journal writing exercise. No. Creative nonfiction means you lean …

Writing Tip #16: The So-Called “Time Lack” Delimma

You don’t have time to write.

Is it true?

So often, too often, this is the mantra of the would-be writer. Unfortunately, when we say a thing over and over again, guess what? The thing comes true.

You may be a person who has plenty of time to write but because you keep …