How This Workshop Will Help You
You have a story to tell, but will it be interesting? Will anybody want to read it? What if you want to attract an agent and a traditional publisher? Writer & Writing Coach Myra Levine will break this daunting task down into simpler pieces to get you started. We’ll talk about the KEY INGREDIENT that most writers completely miss.
It might surprise you, but what readers look for in a memoir isn’t that different from what literary agents and traditional publishers look for! We’ll talk about how to begin writing and how to get your story organized so it makes sense. We’ll also discuss what to do if your family and friends might react badly to what you write.
What You’ll Do in the Workshop
- Complete writing prompts to unlock memories
- Discuss types of memoirs so you can choose your path
- Learn about the importance of a Unique Selling Proposition
- Understand how to focus your stories
- Start your list of possible stories to include
- Learn what it means to write for the reader
- Discuss issues like privacy and family pushback
Who Should Attend?
• Anyone who dreams of writing a memoir.
• People who wonder if their stories are worth telling.
• Writers who have started writing and need advice.
• Those with a story meant for the world.
• Those with a story meant for family or friends.
• Experienced writers who know there’s more to learn.
• New writers who wonder if they can do this!
BONUS OFFER
There will be too many participants to share our writing, but you can email your prompts to Myra for personal (free) feedback.
About Myra
Myra Levine is on a mission: To make sure that nobody dies with their story still inside them. She shows writers how to turn their lives, experiences, and areas of expertise into memoirs and novels. She teaches writing techniques not taught in school. And her classes are FUN.
Writing isn’t about knowing where to put the commas; it’s about capturing a moment and bringing it to life. As a writing coach, Myra challenges her clients to master the tools of fiction, like point of view, dialog, setting, and character development to bring their fiction to a higher level AND to write unforgettable memoirs. The germ of an idea can become a great story, or a dozen great stories, or a terrific novel—and a coach can cut years of frustration from the job of writing a great book.
Before turning to fiction and publishing two novels, Myra spent decades writing television and radio scripts, instructional videos, and corporate marketing programs. She won many local and regional advertising awards before leaving corporate life to become a wife and mother of two adopted kids. Stay-at-home-motherhood rekindled her ambition to write fiction.
As Myra puts it, “If you turn the truth into fiction, you’re less likely to get sued.”
Her live seminars attract writers from all over the world.
Written under the name M.E. Levine, Myra’s novels, Revenge of the Soccer Moms and The Dead Mothers’ Club, are available on Amazon.com (print & e-book) and Audible.com (audiobook).
