Saturday, March 13, 2021 from 1:00pm-3:15pm MT
$50

What causes a book-length work to move forward with urgency? How do we avoid bogging readers down in a play-by-play? In this 2 hour intensive workshop, author Katherine E. Standefer draws on the writing of her debut book Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life to offer pacing strategies writers can bring to their own memoirs-in-process. We'll dig into the different types of material in a memoir, talk about place detail as an essential grounding, learn to recognize the opportunities for layering in character and context development, and experience how syntax-level choices can swell, fragment, or deaden the prose-- leaving the workshop with fresh eyes for our manuscripts-in-progress.

Participants will receive some pre-workshop optional assignments. This class includes a brief Zoom/bathroom break.