Your Life is a Story: The Art of Memoir with Bill Kenower

There is an art to taking the sprawling events of your life and reducing them to a personal essay or memoir. Using Bill Kenower's unique, inside-out approach to writing, we'll look at how to tell the fine difference between telling a story about your life, and using your life to tell a story. It doesn't matter if you want to tell the story of how you climbed Mount Everest, or fell in love for the first time, all stories are worth telling when you find their heart.

You can expect to learn:

• How to find the narrative arc in a personal story.
• How to write about painful memories.
• How to write about people who have mistreated you.
• How to turn the most challenging moments of your life into a story that can help others.

Bill Kenower is an author, lecturer, and coach, and host of the weekly podcast “Fearless Writing.” He’s the author of “Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write With Confidence” (Writers Digest Books, May 2017), and “Write Within Yourself: An Author's Companion” (Booktrope Editions, 2013). He is the editor-in-chief of the popular online Author magazine.

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