Description
This step-by-step course will teach you:
- The powerful structure virtually all the best memoirs follow
- The key scenes you must include no matter what you’re writing about
- The 3W Formula for writing memoir — once you understand this, everything changes
- How to make the writing process much easier and faster
- How to write a truly compelling piece of memoir readers will tell their friends about
- The course is taught online, with video lessons you can watch any time. There’s nowhere you have to be and no schedule you have to keep.
You will also receive a workbook, which will make it easy to remember your assignments and to review key concepts you learned in the videos.
Remember, my goal is to make writing a good book EASIER.
Marion Roach Smith isn’t just a fine teacher, generous mentor, and sharp and kind critic, she’s also a master at the form of memoir. She coaxes from you and your text what you’re really trying to communicate. She whittles away the unnecessary until all that’s left is the shining essential: your story.
— DAVID LEITE, AUTHOR, NOTES ON A BANANA: A MEMOIR OF FOOD, LOVE AND MANIC DEPRESSION (DEY STREET, 2017), BLOGGER AT LEITE’S CULINARIA
It is neither simple nor comfortable to strip yourself naked in 200-plus pages of a memoir. Even more painful is shipping said document to a stranger for a thorough review and content edit. But in hiring Marion Roach Smith to edit my manuscript, I discovered not only a caretaker but a craftsman. Marion knows the art of story: how to pull all the right pieces together, arrange them in perfect order, so the telling is both honoring and rich. She took my raw, exposed draft and helped me turn it into a masterpiece. It will not be the last time I bare my soul to such a talent.
– MICHELE CUSHATT, WRITER, SPEAKER, AUTHOR OF UNDONE, A STORY OF ASKING PEACE WITH AN UNEXPECTED LIFE, (ZONDERVAN, 2015) AND I AM, A 60-DAY JOURNEY TO KNOWING WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS (ZONDERVAN, 2017).
The Buddhist proverb “When the student is ready, the teacher appears” has certainly proven true in my own life. After deciding to move forward with a memoir languishing on my hard drive for 5 years, I discovered that Marion, who has penned one of the best memoir writing books around, also offered one-on-one editing and manuscript critiques. Huzzah! She’s a gifted instructor whose guidance and encouragement are making me a better writer and my book, a much more viable piece for publication.
– JUDITH HENRY, AUTHOR, THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER’S GUIDE TO CAREGIVING. (BROADCLOTH BOOKS, 2015).
