Creative Nonfiction: How to Craft a Personal Narrative

Join journalist Daniel Krieger as he shows you how to craft a nonfiction personal narrative, with an in-depth look at its parts. He’ll illuminate the process by deconstructing a story that he wrote for the New York Times Magazine Lives column. He will also talk about choosing the right story, strategies for composing it, how to revise it, and what might come next. For the project, all you need to do is come up with a discovery you made that affected you that you’d like to share. This class is appropriate for anyone who gets a thrill out of writing true stories, and the skills you learn can be applied to just about any form of storytelling.

• Class Overview
• Your Assignment
• A Weighty Matter
• Choose a Story and Write a Draft
• Revise!
• Then What?
• Final Thoughts