Story Genius Writing Course: The Origin Scene
Sometimes I feel so small in revision. If you think about it, all stories begin with relevant backstory. For just as real people deal with the present based on their …
Story Genius Writing Course: One Ticking Clock in Story
Crawling along in theStory Genius method formy college memoir. A story is one external problem that grows, escalates, and complicates from beginning to end, Lisa Cron says in our Story …
Story Genius Course: Internal and External Plots
I’m still hammering away atthe Story Genius course. It trulyis a difficult but impressive wayto analyze your writing. Besides the constant thinking of “why does [anything and everything] matter to …
Story Genius Course: Starting with Backstory
The Story Genius course startedas a book. Lisa Cron uses concretemethods to guide story creation. That’s right, fellow writers! Before you begin to write forward in your story, you need …
Intense New Writing Course: Story Genius with Lisa Cron and Jennie Nash
It’s time for a new draft of my memoir about attending college as a mother of five. I’ve been tweaking and revising the same version, but I think I need …
An Academic Foundation Can Be Had
Remaining positive for the new draft of my college memoir All I needed was time. But that’s what I lacked. Or so it seemed. Many times, the older students have …
Inferiority Comes to Live at My House
Looking across the chasm of confusion to a new version of my college memoir. And she was worse than a newborn baby, draining my …
Framing the Memoir: How Does Motherhood Fit into the College Experience?
Fall frames the world in color. A writer friend asked me if my memoir was about how motherhood influenced me as a college student or was it how college influenced …
Memoirs: More Than Just What Happened
Memoirs require depth and not merely what transpired during the slice of life being recounted through story. The writer needs to look up from her reminiscing, and explain the wider …
Beginnings: As in Where to Begin My Memoir
On a journey to a better beginning for the memoir Beginnings are the most important part of books, I feel, be it memoir or …