Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
Deciding What Will Make It Into Your Story
A course by Courtney Maum , Author and Book Coach
About the video: Deciding What Will Make It Into Your Story
Overview
“Sometimes it is hard to decide what parts of your non-fiction work you should leave out. Here I will give you some tips to make this process easier.”
In this video lesson Courtney Maum addresses the topic: Deciding What Will Make It Into Your Story, 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
“Deciding What Will Make It into Your Story In the last lesson we learned what memoir is and what memoir can do. In this lesson, we'll look at some strategies for deciding what should make it into your projects and what to leave out. When it comes to writing non-fiction, personal stories of any length and form, the real challenge isn't necessarily deciding what will be in the story, is deciding what is not gonna make the cut. All of us have had really interesting lives, but all those interesting moments of our lives can't fit into one story. Even if you've decided that you'll write a whole b...”
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Course summary for: Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
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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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