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Finding the Plot in Memoir: a writing workshop on zoom, via the Writers House at Rutgers-Camden

Whether it’s an essay or a book, a memoir project is built out of the stuff of your own life–but memoir still benefits from the engine of a plot to pull your reader through! In this workshop, we’ll try out several approaches to finding the plot in your own life. If you’ve got a great story to tell but you’re having trouble putting it all together, you’ll leave with a toolkit of strategies and approaches to build your project. Bring your messy draft or a collection of good ideas; we’ll work together to give it a shape.

This workshop draws on the strategies I used to write The Good Mother Myth, which I wrote about for Literary Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter.

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