Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
Putting It All Together!
A course by Courtney Maum , Author and Book Coach
About the video: Putting It All Together!
Overview
“In this lesson, I’m going to walk you through how I wrote a difficult personal essay about a miscarriage using the tools we have learned together: the creation of a double timeline and a three-act story structure.”
In this video lesson Courtney Maum addresses the topic: Putting It All Together!, 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
“Putting It All Together! In the last lesson we learned what a three-act story structure is. In this lesson, we'll learn how to graph a double timeline into our three-act story structure. I'm going to show you how I wrote a personal essay about a miscarriage using a double timeline graphed into a three-act story structure. By way of reminder, for me, my timeline A, the universal timeline, is pregnancy and pregnancy loss, those are my big themes. Timeline B, personal, is that I had a miscarriage during a depression and a really rough patch in my marriage. What I'm going to do now is start wit...”
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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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