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

• Introduction
• Memoir and Nonfiction Writing
• Finding Your Story’s Structure
• Tips and Tricks to Keep Writing!
• Final project

There’s no right way to tell a story but author and book coach Courtney Maum believes there is a right way to structure one. She’s been using stories to learn about the world for most of her life and, having written and published several with some of the biggest publishing houses in America including Penguin Random House and The New York Times, she knows a thing or two about how to write them.

In this course, she guides you through creating a compelling personal story using a three-act structure and a double timeline. Learn how to use them as a foundation to write about real people and real stories in a way that captures the reader’s attention from the first page.

• About Me
• Influences
• Conquering Fear and Guilt
• What Memoir Is and Does
• Deciding What Will Make It Into Your Story
• Voice: What Is It and How to Find Yours?
• Plot, Sub-Plot and the Double Timeline
• The Three-Act Story Structure
• Putting It All Together!
• Accountability
• Generating “Buzz” Around Your Story
• Giving Yourself Permission to Write
• Memoir Writing: Write a Personal Story for a Universal Audience