YOU’VE STARTED YOUR MEMOIR. NOW WHAT?
Join Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, at beautiful Salt Water Farm in coastal Maine for three days of inspiration.
You’ve begun your memoir.You’ve gone from thought to action by putting words on paper. That’s huge.
Now, what’s next?
This three-day workshop will address that question in its many forms.
We’ll work on the kinds of puzzles, problems and decisions you’ll encounter as you delve deeper and write on.Questions of structure.Of making your people come alive on the page.
Of creating a sense of expectation and drama.Of finding meaning to your story, beyond the personal to the universal.Of dialogue.How do you remember and accurately render what people said years ago?
Of making decisions about how to write about family and people you know.
In addition, we’ll read and discuss selections from strong memoirs in which these questions are illustrated to see how those writers delt with these issues.
Each day will begin with a two-hour morning session where we read and discuss your work, followed by a French inspired family-style lunch under the grape arbor and a short walk to ocean’s edge. In the afternoons, we’ll revisit our memoir writing and assign an exercise for the following day in a one-hour session.
Let this workshop help you bring your memoir closer to the finish line.