Writing from Your Own Life

Students will use their own life as a starting point for fiction or to explore writing memoir/creative non-fiction. What are the things that make up a self? We all have life experience that can become the stuff of fiction, including knowledge of place, people and feelings. hat counts as your ‘secret knowledge’ (things in your life experience that may not seem like story material, but is actually so uniqu only you can know) and the daily experience of living as the spark for further writing. These sessions are great for character development and writing place in fiction.

Topics covered:

• What is life writing?
• What forms does it take? What are its uses?
• The art of defamiliarisation
• How to develop fiction from life
• Making memory maps