[NAMW Memoir Telesummit] Developing Voice and Theme in Your Memoir by Sheila Bender
Developing Voice and Theme in Your Memoir by Sheila Bender
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How do writers approach writing meant to discover and share the shape of their experience? How can we approach our writing in a way that allows us to evoke our unique way of observing, remembering, and putting events and perceptions together to find insight? How do we write the way Robert Frost advised: “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader” (even if we are writing funny, by the way?)
In this talk, Sheila will lead you in:
- Exercises aimed at developing personal writing that achieves universal appeal
- Learning how to find the gold in your freewrites and first drafts
- Learning tools for shaping drafts from that gold
- Thinking about shaping an entire collection of personal essays or a memoir
Sheila Bender is an award winning and widely published poet, author and writing facilitator. She publishes “Writing It Real,” an online magazine for those who write from personal experience. A past contributing editor to Writer’s Digest Magazine, she has written eight popular instructional books on writing from personal experience, including Writing Personal Poetry: Creating Poems from Life Experience, Keeping a Journal You Love, and her most recent Writing and Publishing Personal Essays. www.writingitreal.com
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