Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
What Memoir Is and Does
A course by Courtney Maum , Author and Book Coach
About the video: What Memoir Is and Does
Overview
“I will show you the different types of autobiographical writing so that you have a clear vision of where your work could fit.”
In this video lesson Courtney Maum addresses the topic: What Memoir Is and Does, which is part of the Domestika online course: Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience. Learn how to write a compelling personal narrative by exploring different literary devices and story structures.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Memoir Is and Does Now that I've given you some strategies for conquering fear and guilt, in this lesson, we're going to look at what memoir is and what memoir does. In many languages, memoir sounds like memory for a good reason. When you are writing memoir, you're writing a non-fiction narrative about your personal life, something that happened to you, or perhaps to someone that you know. Now, there is another genre where people add fiction into their non-fiction, that's another genre called autobiographical fiction, that we won't be getting into in this particular course. In my late ...”
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Course summary for: Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
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Areas
Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Writing
Courtney Maum
A course by Courtney Maum
American author and book coach Courtney Maum has used stories to make sense of the world since she was a child. She studied comparative literature and French translation at university before going on to work in advertising agencies as a copywriter and corporate namer. She has used her love of storytelling to create compelling backstories for everything from nail polish to electric cars.
Courtney is fascinated with the creative process and has written and published several books with some of the biggest publishing houses and editors in America, including Penguin Random House and The New York Times. She also founded a collaborative retreat for creative professionals and has a regular newsletter, Get Published, Stay Published, in which she shares her tips for staying motivated during the writing process.
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