In Micro-Memoir: The Art of Writing Short, learn several techniques to bring a large story into laser-focus, trim the fat, and use fewer words to tell a high-impact story. We specifically look at why writing short is beneficial to every writer and specific ways how to master this art form.
Watch the brief writing lessons each day, then, finish up with a specific writing challenge. Over the course of this challenge, you’ll be equipped to craft several micro-memoirs. In addition, you’ll also come away with some new writing tools in your kit that you can engage time and again.
Whether you write memoir and life stories, other forms of nonfiction, or fiction works, Micro-Memoir: The Art of Writing Short is for you!
Here are links to several resources we will use in this challenge:
- Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith
- Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
- River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative
- Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
- Flash: Writing the Very Short Story by John Dufresne
- How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark
- The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction edited by Dinty W. Moore