Organizing Your Material

How do writers of memoir organize their material to create a unified story? This is the driving question that will propel us through Writing the Memoir: Organizing Your Material. Reading a number of published memoirs together, we will analyze how writers structure their stories by using narrative arc, chapter development and transitions between chapters. We will also examine how authors use sections, prologues, epilogues, framing devices and scene and summary to communicate their stories. In addition, we'll discuss how to write about secrets and other sensitive subjects. You will continue to generate new writing, begin to organize the memoir material you have so far and find its inherent structure.

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