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Registration
Remembering, Reflecting, and Plotting with Nicole Helget
07/09/2022 08:00 AM - 08/13/2022 08:00 AM ET
Admission
$50.00
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$75.00
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$100.00
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$150.00
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$200.00
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$250.00
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$250 Pay What You Can
Location
Google Classroom
Summary
Saturday, July 9 - Friday, Aug 12 (5 Weeks)
This CNF class is devoted to helping the writer through remembering, reflecting, and plotting. The instructor will lead students through selecting the best memories for drama, the best moments for reflection, and the best plot points for structuring a larger story. This class includes weekly CNF craft lessons and writing prompts, submission deadlines, and personal feedback. Creative Nonfiction (CNF) is the umbrella genre for many subgenres, including memoir, personal essays, travel journals, true crime narratives, sports literature, prose essays, lyric essays, and more. No matter which subgenre a CNF writer is working in, they go through the sequence of remembering, reflecting, and plotting. Remembering is the hardest, most dense. Reflection is the insight, the flight of meaning. Plotting is the responsibility of communicating to an audience. At the end of this class, students will be equipped with the skills to deftly move between these three nonfiction modes.
This five-week course will take a broad approach to the role research plays in writing and potentially publishing creative nonfiction. Each week, students will complete short generative writing exercises and develop strategies for incorporating research in their own work. Each week, we will also focus on a central theme: the ethical considerations related to writing toward truth, the exploration of memory and personal research, strategies for including outside sources, form and content, and the reviewing and proofreading processes.