Reflections

Re-Creating Dialogue Reading and writing exercise: read these memoir excerpts [...]

Communicating Emotion Freewrite: Think of a memory in which you [...]

Writing in Scenes Exercise: See if you can change a [...]

Mining for Meaning Meaning through Metaphor Prompt: write about the [...]

Meaning and the Reflective Voice Choose an experience that will [...]

Other Memoir Structures Thematic Organization Is there a way that [...]

The Narrative Arc Act l The Beginning or the “Set-up” [...]

The Importance of Context This is not just a story [...]

Writing About Place Free write for 5 minutes on each [...]

Introduce Your Character Write an introduction of yourself as a [...]

Developing Yourself as a Character Try to accurately capture how [...]

This is a story about me versus... The world that [...]