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Claiming Our Stories, Part One
Introduction
Welcome
Microscopic Truthfulness
Notes on first drafts, and on freewriting
Unit 1: Story and Plot
Lesson #1: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Story? Or, at least a few.
Lesson #2: Organic form; the realm of the forgotten; the story truth
Lesson #3A: A Quick Discussion of Plot, in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Lesson #3B: Writing Explorations for Discovering Plot, in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Lesson #4: Truth and “Lies” / Fiction and Nonfiction
Interlude
Jot down some notes on your writing, on your project
Unit 2: Memory and Trauma
Lesson #5: Accessing and writing potent memories
Lesson #6: Tapping into memory through shifts and ruptures, through before-and-afters
Lesson #7: Tapping into memory with shifts and ruptures, before-and-afters (continued)
Lesson #8: Images and Memory; Trauma and Memory; Home and Loss—more writing explorations
Lesson #9: Ways to reach and to write difficult and traumatic memories
Unit 3: Narrator and Narration
Lesson #10: How to locate and develop the storyteller of your life— the narrator of your memoir or autobiographical fiction
Lesson #11: Who owns the story? Finding the narrators you hold within.
Lesson #12: Clarifying your narrator will help you to make story from the jumble of events
Lesson #13: Effects of physical and emotional distance on narration
Lesson #14: A pure writing interlude!
Unit 4: Beginnings
Lesson #15: Birth of a Narrator of the Whole Memory
Lesson #16: Sometimes you arrive at specific narrators by allowing the free flow of voices!
Lesson #17: Finding the Beginning of Your Story
Lesson #18: Beginnings, and the Restructuring of Heart, Mind, and Story
Lesson #19: Opening the World of Our Story Through Its Boundaries and Crossings
Unit 5: Chapters
Lesson #20: Using Potent Words to Move into the Chapters of Your Life
Lesson #13: Effects of physical and emotional distance on narration
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