Joyce Maynard – Writing Your Story

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Joyce Maynard – Writing Your Story
Writing Your Story

Join acclaimed memoirist Joyce Maynard and discover how to write personal true stories that your readers will never forget.
LESSON
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01:What Happens When We Keep Secrets?

8 min
02:Name Your Obsessions 

13 min
03:Stick to Your Story

17 min
04:Identify Your Journey

6 min
05:Take Your Story Apart

16 min
06:The Landing Place

9 min
07:The Honesty Question

5 min
08:What’s the Worst That Can Happen?

7 min
09:Descriptive versus Interpretive Language

11 min
10:Diagramming the Sentence 

9 min
11:The Importance of Economy

10 min
12:Dialogue and Rhythm

9 min
13:Six Common Mistakes Writers Make 

8 min
14:The Paragraph

3 min
15:Building the Arc

3 min
16:The Test of a Good Memoir

17 min
17:The Container

4 min
18:Two Containers from Scratch

30 min
19:Developing Your Container

18 min
20:Dissecting a Good Container Essay

30 min
21:The Writing Life

3 min
22:Creating a Writing Practice

22 min
23:What Gets in Your Way?

15 min
24:The Not-Writing Process

11 min
25:Criticism and Rejection

4 min
26:What Happens When We Tell Our Truth?

32 min
DETAILS
Overview
Discover how to translate your life into captivating, resonant stories with Writing Your Story, by acclaimed memoirist Joyce Maynard. In 26 lessons with the feel of a friendly, collaborative writing workshop, you’ll explore how to identify the right stories to tell; examine tips and tricks with language, dialogue, and description; and find inspiration for everything from cultivating a writing practice to handling rejection.
About

Joyce Maynard

My job here is to give you permission to tell your story.
A native of New Hampshire, Joyce Maynard began publishing her stories in magazines when she was thirteen years old. She first came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover story, “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life”, 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 whose “Domestic Affairs” column appeared in over fifty papers nationwide, a regular contributor to NPR and national magazines including Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and many more. She is a longtime performer with The Moth.
Maynard is the author of seventeen books, including the novel To Die For and the best-selling memoir, At Home in the World—translated into sixteen languages. Her novel, To Die For, was adapted for the screen by Buck Henry for a film directed by Gus Van Sant, in which Joyce can be seen in the role of Nicole Kidman’s lawyer. Her novel Labor Day was adapted and directed by Jason Reitman for a film starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, to whom Joyce offered instruction for making the pie that appeared in a crucial scene in the film.
The mother of three grown children, Maynard runs workshops in memoir at her home in Lafayette California. In 2002 she founded The Lake Atitlan Writing Workshop in San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala, where she hosts a weeklong workshop in personal storytelling every winter.
She is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
REVIEWS
Suitearia  

I found this workshop absolutely helpful

I am a beginning writer without a lot of information on the process, the “how to”. While most of the lessons are brief, and the information presented at a high level, to me the course was extremely informative.
JimS1952

more then expected

After writing my Camp Lejeune experiences during Vietnam war days recently I became interested in writing more – better. Joyce Maynard is fantastic in assisting me going forward with my new “writing” hobby. The course was like Joyce was communicating with me personally.
Missouri

I have a story to tell

I have enjoyed the learning experience and pick up some tips on writing. Thank you