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Write Your Life Story: Getting Started
Laying the Groundwork
Welcome to Write Your Life Story: Getting Started!
Reading #1: What is Creative Nonfiction
Reading #2: What is Memoir
Writing Prompt #1: Ten Things
TED Talk for Inspiration
Professor's Advice: The value of daydreaming
Looking Outward
TED Talks
Craft Lessons
Writing Prompt #2: Family Interview
Samples of published creative nonfiction/personal essays
Professor's Advice: How to be a better storyteller
Writing Prompt #3: Flash Memoir
Looking Inward
Writing Prompt #4: Letter to an Inanimate Object
Writing Prompt #5: Power of Repetition
Writing Prompt #6: Frozen Moment
Writing Prompt #7: Landscape Memory
Professor's Advice: The Value of Contemplation
Professor's Advice: Overcoming the Confidence Block
Drafting for publication
Professor's Advice: Spice Up Your Prose with Sensory Details
Professor's Advice: The Importance of Audience
Writing Prompt #8: Power of Repetition Redux
Professor's Advice: The Positive Rejection
Professor's Advice: Release the Mental Brakes: Where Ideas Come From
Directions to schedule half-hour video chat with Professor Morris
Final Thoughts
Professor's Advice: There's No Such Thing as Writer's Block
The Best Writing Advice Evah!
Directions to email your early draft to Professor Morris for personal feedback and specific improvement suggestions
Thank you message for students and some final encouraging thoughts
TED Talks
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