Class Description
So you’ve finished a draft of your memoir. Now what?
This three-hour seminar will give you actionable revision strategies for developing the setting and characters in your memoir draft. Through a series of in-class exercises, you’ll enhance the worldbuilding and character development of your memoir, including making details more specific, sharpening character portrayals, and adding sociohistorical context. We’ll discuss ways to make your characters more three-dimensional on the page and improve the cohesiveness of their arcs. You will also be guided through exercises to help evaluate how closely the setting and characters align with your memoir’s themes. There will be opportunities for students to share challenges and goals for their projects and to brainstorm revision ideas.
Expect to leave this class with a toolbox of revision techniques for polishing your memoir’s setting and characters.
This course can be taken alone or in conjunction with the other seminars in this series: Memoir Revision Essentials: Structure & Theme (June 7).
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.