New classes I’m teaching
I’ll be teaching two exciting classes this fall with a very cool new online creative writing school – Basement Writing Workshops. Classes are:
Introductory Memoir Writing Class
This is a course for anyone who has a personal story pressing beneath his/her skin, the story that’s dying to be told. You might not know where to begin; you might have some of it written; you might even have the whole thing written. Whatever you have done or not done, you want to learn more about how to shape it, how to make it a page-turner, and how to be true to what you want to say. If you’ve never taken a memoir writing course, this course is perfect for you. If you need a refresher, this course is perfect for you too. We will discuss the character’s core desire and motivation, building tension, how to handle issues of truth, and much more. Also, throughout, we’ll discuss all those other issues that come up when we write memoir – fears about hurting people, how to handle memory, etc. By the end of our time together, you will be well on your way to completing the memoir you’ve long wanted to write.
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Sex Writing Class: Sex Diary
I have a friend who has a book in which she keeps track of every man she’s slept with. She has pictures of each one, a talk bubble for each in which they say the thing she found most sexy, notes whether she had an orgasm and how big his penis was, and then writes up a brief paragraph about what she remembers about the guy. I was so inspired by her sex book, not just because it was so cool, but because I knew that sex came with a lot of baggage for her, and so this was what she had done to work through that. In this course, I want to see all of your sex books – not exactly like hers, of course; but like her, you will write what you need to write about the sex in your life, whatever it is. Here, through telling your stories, we will get to the terrible and beautiful truth of what sex has meant for you.
Would love to see you there!