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Congrats to our workshop student, Lynn Walsh, on the publication of her moving essay, “Our Friend Has Died.” A well-deserved byline! https://betterafter50.com/our-friend-has-died/?fbclid=IwAR1uAxSo2pZo-htHYLW9TIg5plStwcy999s2bThACIOXS2NO9AcHYghjfys&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Our Friend Has Died It’s been almost two months since my friend Tommy fell to the floor at his friend’s house in Milton, Delaware and suffered a fatal heart attack.

A day of creativity and friendship.

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HUGE congratulations to our workshop regular, Crissy - - who will be releasing her Children’s Book, The Too Tall Giraffe, this June!

🖋Do you have aspirations of publishing your work? Register for our weekly virtual writing workshops and join our cohort of hardworking writers, who have been published across a plethora of mediums!

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Let us help you establish the writing motivation and momentum you’ve been missing!

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Memoir Writing Tip No. 7) IDENTIFY AND BEGIN WITH THE INCITING INCIDENT:

🖋 Why should fiction writers have all the fun, anyway? Capture your readers’ attention with a flashback or a flash forward—the event that changed everything, the question that needs answering, the problem that needs solving, the moment you knew fill-in the-blank; then pull back, or reset, and continue chronologically, or by geography, or by names of lovers, or by outfits worn, or by pets outlived… or whatever organizing principle you choose.

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There is so much to admire about this book. The masterful storytelling. The way Miller circles the event, the trial, and the trauma. The way she mixes up sparse reportage-like language with specific, poetic imagery. The way she sets a scene with a few keystrokes in a rattling off of sensory imagery. The way she marries flashbacks with her states of mind, clearly having done the psychological work needed for this memoir. And lastly, the way she makes the larger connections to discuss sexual assault and tell what really happened. I will never forget her name.

🖋What book’s on your MUST READ list?
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Writing is a process. We are here to help.

🖋If you’ve been having trouble completing your current writing project, what you’ve been missing is a ROUTINE! Join our weekly classes to hold yourself accountable for weekly writing goals

🖋Our virtual writing workshops are headed by award-winning published author

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Memoir Writing Tip No. 6) KEEP A DOUBLE PERSPECTIVE:

🖋 There is only one person writing your memoir, but at all times, there are really two of you in the story—the person who lives through the events, and the writer now telling of the events and making sense of them.

🖋 While this may sound tricky, this double perspective, and fleshing out of two characters at once, can be achieved by continuing to ask yourself these questions: What did I think then? And what do I think now?

🖋 You can also ask yourself: Who was I then? And who am I now?

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New nonfiction piece up by our talented student, Selena Fass, investigating an unresolved personal history with stalkers. Check it out here:

https://storiesbyselena.com/