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

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