How to Write About Your Family & Still Be Invited to Thanksgiving

Presented by WriterHouse
with Jeffrey Dale Lofton
Limited to 10 seats

The workshop will include an exercise crafting descriptions that capture the essence of three characters you are considering for your fictionalized memoir.

When working out the storyline of a fictionalized memoir, a writer can take license with details, conform characters to the needs of the story, and even blur the lines between the real and the imagined. But are there practices that help unpack the complexities inherent in weaving actual events in the authors life with the inventions common to writing fiction? In fact, there are.

Jeffrey Dale Lofton will lead adiscussion of the pitfalls and perils of fictionalizing a memoirwhere to tread carefully, where to let loose, and how writing fiction from personal experience can add emotional depth to a story.