Writing Workshop: Turning Yourself Into a Character in Memoir

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP:
When you write a book about your own life experience it centers you as the main character, the protagonist, the narrator. You know you better than anyone, right? So, it should be easy to write yourself into the pages of your own story. Maybe, maybe not.

In this one-hour writing workshop, we'll explore some of the key considerations in turning yourself into a character within your memoir, such as:

• interiority and emotionality
• objective self-awareness
• the experiencing self versus the wiser self
• dimensionality
• faulty memory

We'll look at some published texts, discuss these aspects, and practice turning ourselves into characters via writing prompts.

This is a perfect workshop for those who have just begun putting their story down on paper and who want to develop their creative writing skills. If you're looking to ensure that you come across as an authentic and genuine character in your own story, this is a great workshop to attend. (Some fiction writers might also find usefulness in this workshop when it comes to general character development.)

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Alyssa Berthiaume (known by most as Ally and published under A.Y.) is a mompreneur, author, ghostwriter, and writing guide with a superpower for hearing between the lines. She guides badass and brilliant, loving, and soulful people in writing their incredible personal stories of grit, hope, and triumph meant to inspire their audience, transform the masses, and change the 'effin' world.

She is the founder of The Write Place, Right Time, her virtual boutique professional writing services where she serves entrepreneurs, leaders, and visionaries internationally to bring their books to the world via her book coaching, developmental editing, and ghostwriting services. Her genre of choice is nonfiction with a specialty in memoirs.

Berthiaume is also the award-winning author of Dear Universe, I Get it Now: Letters on the Art and Journey of Being Brave and Being Me and the award-winning co-author of Do Not Write a Book…Until You Read This One. She has an M.F.A. and B.A. in creative writing and graduate certificates in English Composition and Women’s Studies.

She is a native Vermonter, practicing Ally and advocate, recovering middle child, wannabe superhero, and a mom who’s pretty sure she’s “winging it”. If you can catch her away from the keyboard, she's probably drinking Maple Lattes in a coffee shop, watching The Princess Bride for the thousandth time, spending too many hours in a bookstore adding more books to her must-read list, or having a movie and game night with her husband and son.

ZOOM INFO:
Once you register, the Zoom link will be made available to you.
The password to the Zoom meeting is: bebrave.

WORKSHOP MATERIALS:
A digital workbook will be provided, but please also show up prepared to work inside a Word or Google document or within a notebook in case you have trouble accessing the workbook.