Writing Your Story
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Join acclaimed memoirist Joyce Maynard and discover how to write personal true stories that your readers will never forget.
Syllabus
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- 01: What Happens When We Keep Secrets?
- 02: Name Your Obsessions
- 03: Stick to Your Story
- 04: Identify Your Journey
- 05: Take Your Story Apart
- 06: The Landing Place
- 07: The Honesty Question
- 08: What's the Worst That Can Happen?
- 09: Descriptive versus Interpretive Language
- 10: Diagramming the Sentence
- 11: The Importance of Economy
- 12: Dialogue and Rhythm
- 13: Six Common Mistakes Writers Make
- 14: The Paragraph
- 15: Building the Arc
- 16: The Test of a Good Memoir
- 17: The Container
- 18: Two Containers from Scratch
- 19: Developing Your Container
- 20: Dissecting a Good Container Essay
- 21: The Writing Life
- 22: Creating a Writing Practice
- 23: What Gets in Your Way?
- 24: The Not-Writing Process
- 25: Criticism and Rejection
- 26: What Happens When We Tell Our Truth?
Taught by
Joyce Maynard
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