Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience
Generating “Buzz” Around Your Story
A course by Courtney Maum , Author and Book Coach
About the video: Generating “Buzz” Around Your Story
Overview
“Social media are a great tool to make your book known, so it's important that you leverage their full potential to reach a wider audience.”
In this video lesson Courtney Maum addresses the topic: Generating “Buzz” Around 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
“Generating "Buzz" Around Your Story We have accountability practices in place. So now, in this lesson, we'll look at different ways to generate buzz or interest in your story. In today's marketplace, it can be challenging to publish a short piece, and it's certainly very challenging to get a book published, but with the different tools of social media, it's not only easy, but affordable and fun to get your story out there in all different ways. For example, with the personal essay I wrote about pregnancy loss, it ended up being published in an online magazine called "Modern Loss". that felt...”
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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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