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Short-form Memoir with Jenny Valentish
Welcome
Introduction
Meet Your Teacher: Jenny Valentish (3:08)
Part One: The Universe of You
Find Your Own Comfort Zone (2:55)
Types of Short-form Memoir
Finding Your Themes
Exercise: In Three Parts
Identify Your Crusades
Exercise: Crusades
What Should You Not Put in Your Memoir? (3:22)
Writing About Trauma
Writing As a Younger You
‘Write from the scar, not the wound’—True or False?
Poetic Licence (3:12)
The Same Idea From Different Angles
Exercise: Different Angles
Part Two: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Three Prompts For Beginning Your Essay (3:51)
The Hero’s Journey in Plotting Your Short Memoir Pieces
The Context of a Specific Year
Exercise: Context
Foreshadowing
Exercise: Creating Your Own Foreshadowing
Incorporating Research
Using Bookends in Your Essay
Endings Have a Rhythm (3:25)
10 Steps to Tightly Edited Copy
Check Your Balance
Exercise: Applying to Your Own Piece-in-Progress
Part Three: Whose Story Is It Anyway?
What Do Memoirists Have to Say About Identifying Others in Their Work?
Show, Don’t Diagnose (2:28)
Show, Don't Diagnose (continued)
Five Ways to Approach Writing About Real People
Describing People
Exercise: Broad Brushstrokes
Remember: People Are Multifaceted
The Objects of Your Subject
Exercise: Your Subject
The Roles in a Dysfunctional Family (5:11)
Exercise: Examine the Roles of Your Siblings
Conclusion (0:49)
Feedback
Thank You
‘Write from the scar, not the wound’—True or False?
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