So you’ve finished a draft of your memoir. Now what? This three-hour seminar will give you actionable revision strategies for honing the structure and themes of your memoir draft. Through a series of in-class exercises, you’ll finesse the “story” underlying the “situation” of your memoir and sharpen your narrative arc. We’ll discuss how to decide whether a scene belongs or not, and you’ll identify places to expand and condense. You will also be guided through exercises to help evaluate whether your memoir’s structure is working or not, and how you can make revisions that improve the narrative flow. There will be opportunities for students to share challenges and goals for their projects and to brainstorm revision ideas.

Expect to leave this class with a toolbox of revision techniques for polishing your memoir’s structure and theme.

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