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Telling Your Story with Joyce Maynard
Telling Your Story
15 episodes
4 days ago
“No matter what level writer you are, Joyce Maynard can make you better. She knows how to distill a story to its essence and help you shape it into a compelling experience for the reader.” For twenty-five years, New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard has been leading workshops in the art and craft of memoir all over the U.S. and beyond. In light of the challenging times, Joyce has recorded, from her home by Lake Atitlan, a series of intimate conversations that will help you locate and tell YOUR story, identify your themes, and address the relationships between memoir and history.
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“No matter what level writer you are, Joyce Maynard can make you better. She knows how to distill a story to its essence and help you shape it into a compelling experience for the reader.” For twenty-five years, New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard has been leading workshops in the art and craft of memoir all over the U.S. and beyond. In light of the challenging times, Joyce has recorded, from her home by Lake Atitlan, a series of intimate conversations that will help you locate and tell YOUR story, identify your themes, and address the relationships between memoir and history.
Show more...
How To
Education
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The Container Story
Telling Your Story with Joyce Maynard
18 minutes 12 seconds
4 years ago
The Container Story

The impulse that so many writers have when approaching memoir, is to tell everything... but we don't have to tell everything all at once. 

Joyce suggests to begin with some short stories, and today we explore the short personal essay - there is a way in a very short space to tell a very big story - Joyce calls this the Container Story. 


Telling Your Story with Joyce Maynard
“No matter what level writer you are, Joyce Maynard can make you better. She knows how to distill a story to its essence and help you shape it into a compelling experience for the reader.” For twenty-five years, New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard has been leading workshops in the art and craft of memoir all over the U.S. and beyond. In light of the challenging times, Joyce has recorded, from her home by Lake Atitlan, a series of intimate conversations that will help you locate and tell YOUR story, identify your themes, and address the relationships between memoir and history.