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Crafting Memoir: How to Outline Your Own Hero's Journey

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About Crafting Memoir: How to Outline Your Own Hero's Journey

Introduction

Why You Qualify as a Hero

The Most Common Mistakes Memoir Writers Make

The Ordinary World

Call to Adventure

Refusing the Call

Meeting the Mentor

Crossing the First Threshold

Tests, Allies, and Enemies

Approach to the Inmost Cave

The Ordeal

Seizing the Sword

The Road Back

Resurrection

Return with the Elixir

What You Will Learn?

  • How do you write a successful, complete story arc about a life you're still living? .
  • In this 30-minute class, award-winning author and writing coach Tammy Letherer shows you how to apply the stages of the Hero's Journey to the events in your life, giving you the tools you need to build a powerful outline for your memoir. .
  • No matter how compelling your personal story is, it won't hook the reader unless you know how to structure it with a beginning, middle, and end. You must share how you faced a specific challenge and how that challenge transformed you and shaped a new belief. It’s a tall order! .
  • Fortunately, humans are hard-wired to respond to the Hero’s Journey, a story form based on Joseph Campbell's monomyth The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Tammy shares how she used this template to become the hero of her own story and how you can do the same..
  • In this course:.
  • Your class project will be to write a rough draft of the beginning chapter of your memoir, or your Ordinary World, ending with your Call to Adventure. Once you clear this first hurdle, you’ll have the knowledge and momentum to keep writing, step by step. .
  • This class is for anyone who wants to write memoir, whether you are just beginning or have a complete first draft. .
  • If you find this class helpful and want more support developing your outline, please visit my Map Your Memoir program..