Creative Writing
Memoir & Personal Narrative
Your life is the raw material. Craft is what makes it a story.
12 lessons4 modules9h 15m durationbeginner level
About this course
Memoir is not autobiography, it is selection and shape applied to lived experience. This course moves from raw memory to revised draft using the tools working memoirists actually use: the writing-self versus experiencing-self split, the five-part scene, narrative arc, and emotional truth. You will leave with a structured manuscript outline, polished scenes, and a submission-ready short personal essay.
Curriculum
Module 1: From Lived Experience to Story
- Memoir Is Not AutobiographyPreview
- Mining Memory for Material🔒
- Truth, Memory, and the Reader's Trust🔒
Module 2: Scene: Making Memory Immersive
- The Anatomy of a Scene🔒
- Sensory Detail and Concrete Specificity🔒
- Dialogue and the People in Your Life🔒
Module 3: Voice, Distance, and Reflection
- The Two Selves on the Page🔒
- Finding and Sustaining Your Voice🔒
- Reflection Without Over-Explaining🔒
Module 4: Structure, Ethics, and Publishing
- Architecting the Whole🔒
- The Ethics and Law of Writing About Real People🔒
- Revision and Getting Published🔒
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