How Everyday Objects Lead Us to the Stories Only We Can Tell
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description: That Old Report Card, Hair Dye & Shovel Opening Earth A Memoir, Micro-Memoir and Storytelling Workshop (two workshops in one!) Where do our deepest stories begin? Not with the dramatic moments we think define us, but with reading an old high school report card. The choice of hair dye. The smell of your grandmother's steamed cauliflower. A word you couldn’t spell in fourth grade. The sound of a shovel opening earth. The ordinary objects and moments we move past every day quietly hold the story juice that have shaped us and genuinely matter. In this immersive micro-memoir and storytelling workshop, we'll learn and practice following what catches our attention—everyday objects, recurring images, unexpected memories, obsessions, questions, and sensory details—and discover how they become pearls we can string together for our most meaningful stories. Micro-memoir is an invitation to write in brevity and essense in order to discover something large. Like flash nonfiction, each piece captures an entire emotional world in a single moment, scene, image, object, conversation, or list. Individually, these brief pieces shine on their own. Strung together, they begin to reveal the deeper architecture of a life, offering the chapters of a memoir. Throughout our time together, you'll write a series of original micro-memoirs while learning how ordinary moments become extraordinary stories. We'll explore how to write with compression, emotional honesty, specificity, and surprise, discovering that the smallest details often carry the greatest emotional weight. Together we'll explore: Finding stories hidden in ordinary objects and everyday moments Using triggers, recurring images, and obsessions to uncover memoir Writing vivid, cinematic micro-memoirs rich with sensory detail Story structure and the fifteen story beats Creating emotional suspense and narrative tension in compressed form Revision techniques that deepen clarity, resonance, and emotional impact Discovering the thematic t…
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