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Joyce Maynard – How to Write a Personal Essay
21 Video lessons in HD
5h 28m of class content
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LESSONS
1. Class Introduction
2. A Short Story About A Big Idea
3. What Do You Want To Write About?
4. Look What You Can Do With 806 Words
5. Stories Of Change
6. Big Ideas To Small Stories
7. When You Have Too Many Stories
8. Writing About Loss & Exploring Secrets
9. 1 Story 5 Ways
10. Deconstructing An Example Essay
11. The Importance Of Language
12. My Favorite Writing Tool
13. Choose Your Words Carefully
14. What’s Wrong With Being Shameless?
15. Handling Two Stories At One Time
16. The Opening And Landing Place
17. Finding The Through Story
18. Picking The Story You Should Tell
19. How I Write A Personal Essay
20. ‘Letting It Fly’ – Workshopping Joyce’s Personal Essay
21. The Privacy Question
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.
JOYCE MAYNARD
Joyce Maynard first came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover story, “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Lifeâ€, in 1972, when she was a freshman at Yale.
Since then, she has been a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, a syndicated newspaper columnist, a regular contributor to NPR and national magazines and a longtime performer with The Moth.
Maynard is the author of seventeen books, including the novels To Die For and Labor Day, both adapted for film. Â But she is probably best known for the best selling and controversial memoir At Home in the World and, more recently, The Best of Us.
A frequent guest lecturer in writing at colleges and MFA programs around the country, Maynard has been hosting workshops for aspiring writers of memoir for almost twenty years. Â In 2002 she founded The Lake Atitlan Writing Workshop, on the shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, where she hosts a weeklong workshop every winter.
Currently at work on her tenth novel, as well as the screen adaptation of an earlier work, she is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
