Collaborate, Create, and Refine Your Memoir with Craft Instruction, Technology and Peer Feedback
Mondays: October 7, 14, 21, 28 at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
This workshop is designed for memoir writers who are ready to take their work to the next level. You’ll learn how to enrich your book using craft techniques and a little help from today’s AI tools.
You maybe be writing a business or tech memoir to assert your authority or your thought leadership. You may be writing a transformational memoir, a healing memoir, a political, spiritual, or sports memoir.
Remember, a memoir is a snapshot of your life and learning, not an autobiography of your entire life. You may have several memoirs to write in your lifetime!
Over the four weeks of the course, you’ll refine your memoir with the support of experienced instructors, peer feedback, and the powerful capabilities of AI technologies.
More than just a class, The Memoir Lab is a writing group where you’ll connect with fellow writers, share your work, and refine your story.
Class Format
- 90-minute weekly sessions (4 weeks) with instructors.
- Ongoing writing group (8 weeks) for continued connection with fellow authors.
- Laser-focused feedback on two submissions per week.
- AI tools: You’ll need to purchase subscriptions to ChatGPT ($20/mo) and Claude AI ($20/mo) to enhance your outlining, editing, and ideation processes.
Writing Group
The writing group provides a supportive, structured space to share your writing, give and receive feedback, and help each other strengthen your work with clarity, impact, and emotional depth in your writing.
Moderated with clear guidelines, the group encourages constructive and focused critique. You are invited to use the writing group for 8 weeks (4 weeks during the course and 4 weeks beyond the course).
You will have the option to extend your writing group membership for a very low monthly cost that covers the use of the platform and moderation.
Workshop Content
AI tech for writers
- Learn how to use AI as organizational aids, idea generators, editors, and tools to help you get unstuck. Not to write for you, but to support your creative process. Specifically, we’ll use ChatGPT and Claude.
Deepen Your Scenes with Reflection and Detail
- Add emotional resonance to your memoir by weaving reflection, dialogue, and action, creating immersive, vivid scenes.
Develop Strong Characters
- Master the art of characterization within your scenes, crafting believable and engaging characters that bring your memoir to life.
Narration and Point of View (POV)
- Explore the role of narrative voice in memoir and learn how different POVs can add depth and intimacy to your storytelling.
4 weeks of instruction, 8 weeks with the writing group. Connect with other authors, and finish your manuscript for publication in 2025.
