Gold CreativeLive - Joyce Maynard - How to Write a Personal Essay

https://www.creativelive.com/class/how-to-write-a-personal-essay-joyce-maynard



Class Description
Turn Your Story into a Gripping Essay That Everyone Wants to Read

How many times have you read the Modern Love column in The New York Times and thought, “Wow, I wish I could write an essay like that!” If you feel you’ve got an incredible story to tell but don’t know how to transform it into a powerful piece that can win a prized spot in the Times or another major publication, this is the class for you.

Celebrated essayist and memoirist Joyce Maynard will take you on a guided journey through the process of writing a kick-ass personal essay that will get you noticed and published.

Maynard will go through the steps of figuring out your big theme, creating a strong outline, identifying the beats of your narrative and writing a compelling column. By the end of this course, you’ll not only have an amazing essay, you’ll have a whole new skill set that will make your writing the best it’s ever been.

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

• Identify a single big idea and weave it through your narrative.
• Focus on a small event or moment to make your abstract theme concrete.
• Build an outline so you can structure your story and identify the beats.
• Figure out the stakes, conflict, discovery, transformation and redemption.
• Create interesting characters and understand their motives.
• Wander off course but not too far—and only for a good reason.
• Add cinematic elements to your story, including a climactic turning point.
• Write a concluding scene that emphasizes your final discovery.

• 21 Video lessons in HD
• 5h 28m of class content

Size on disk: 5.11 GB

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