Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
Voice: What Is It and How to Find Yours?
A course by Courtney Maum , Author and Book Coach
About the video: Voice: What Is It and How to Find Yours?
Overview
“Finding the right voice for your project is another important element to consider. I like to divide voice into several categories which help me find the right one for each work.”
In this video lesson Courtney Maum addresses the topic: Voice: What Is It and How to Find Yours?, 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
“Voice: What It Is and How to Find Yours In the last lesson, we learned how to understand what makes it into a project and what should be left out. In this lesson, we're going to talk about voice, what it is, what it is in non-fiction, and how to find yours. Voice is an elusive thing, hard to define, hard to pin down. l like to think of it as your personality shining through the text. The voice can be hard to find even though it's your story. We still need to work on discovering and developing our voices. I have some ways to find voice that have been really helpful in my own work that I'll s...”
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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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