NAMW Honors National Life Writing Month and Family Story Month with a Memoir Writing Mini-Workshop Teleseminar that includes a FREE PREVIEW Teleseminar
Join us for a Memoir Writing Mini-Workshop Teleseminar, composed of two sessions, PLUS A FREE PREVIEW.
November is National Life Writing Month and Family Story Month! This is a great time for you to get a head start on the memoir you’ve been planning to write. Memoir writers wrestle with two basic challenges:
- How to find memories, organize them, and write about them.
- How to write in story form vs. narrative and journaling style.
Tuesday November 3, 2009: Preview Session (FREE to ALL)
Topic: Top Three Reasons to Write Your Memoir as a Story
Tuesday November 10, 2009: Session 1
Topic: Mining Your Memories and Creating Your Timeline
Tuesday November 17, 2009: Session 2
Topic: Building Your Memoir One Scene at a Time
All Session Start Time: 3 PM PST | 4 PM MST | 5 PM CST | 6 PM EST
Not available for all class sessions? You can still participate by registering for the preview or the actual mini-workshop. After each live class, all registered participants will receive downloadable audio recordings of the sessions for which they are registered.
In this teleseminar lead by the Linda Joy Myers, President of the National Association of Memoir Writers in honor of this important month, you will learn the skills you need to find your memories, organize a running list, and learn the turning point and timeline technique. In session two, we turn our attention to the skill building aspects of writing a memoir—building your memoir one scene at a time. You will find out what agents and editors are looking for in your work, and how to use your chapters and vignettes as small publishable pieces. We will discuss elements of scene, how to use the turning points to find your plot, and how to structure a book length memoir.
You will learn:
- The definition of what a memoir is
- How you mine your memories—the right brain approach
- The turning point and timeline tools and how to use them—the left brain approach
- Why it is necessary to use scenes to write your story
- Definition of story arc
- Your memoir process journal: Tips to keep your memoir on track
- You will receive the timeline and turning point PDF
- List of requirements for a scene
- Template for your memoir process journal
- Memoir writing tips to keep handy
Hi,
Please send me the log-in details for the free Webinars. Thank you!
Dear Libbye,
Hello and thank you for your post. I’ve manually added you to the list of participants in the Free Preview Mini-Workshop.
You should receive an email with the details shortly.
Please let me know how I can assist you further.
Kind regards,
Staci
Can make the first session on Nov. 10th but will probably miss the second session (Nov. 17th, as I will be traveling then). Any way to make it up or get the material I will be missing? Thanks –looking forward to the session on the 10th. Dick Hum
Dear Dick,
The great news is that the class will be recorded. If you sign up for the full workshop, you will receive via email a download link for the preview as well as the two sessions that are a part of the actual class.
Please let me know if you have any other questions about the teleseminars!
Kind regards,
Staci
I am hearing impaired and could not understand enough of the words to get any sense of the webinar I tried a month or so ago.
Is it possible to order a transcription of the free mini-workshop seminar?
Thanks! I’m looking forward to this call. I am in Oregon caring for my father who is on Hospice. I’m seriously thinking of signing up for the workshop, to keep me on track.
Best Regards,
Naomi
Yes, I think we’re going to have a lively workshop today with time for questions, and the mini-workshop should be very helpful with learning how to write memoir as story.
I hope you are able to join us!
Linda Joy
I feel joy to celebrate the National Life Writing Month. All I look forward is to liberate lots of women, set them free through my stories. I get frozen, motionless (except my fingers) while the sad stories are typed; however,as the end of the story is near, there is enormous relief and fulfilment.
Thank you Smita for celebrating this month by writing! Writing does set us free, and helps others by giving them insight into how we all struggle to live, love, and share in our own unique ways. You witness also the process that I see so often in my workshops–that release and relief from having written something important to us.
Keep writing! And thank you for being a part of NAMW!