Craft Your True Story-Virtual Only

Beginning & Intermediate  Class is Full
May 22, 2021- Saturday, 1 Session
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Instructor: Carol Crawford
Class Fee:   $50.00 non-members
                     $45.00 BRMAA members                   
In this Virtual class, Students will create a road map for their writing.  Students will learn how to nail down the focus of memoirs or a nonfiction book and learn how to build scene upon scene in a compelling and readable way.  The Instructor will discuss how to find the heart of your story, where to start, where to end, what to leave out, and how to provide context and color.  If time, students will read in-class writing exercises in this interactive class.  The intended project is creating a “road map” document that identifies the students’ project focus, parameters, trajectory, contents, and ending.  The Instructor will discuss techniques identifying the focus, boundaries and arc of a nonfiction work. Students will write introductory paragraphs and will be offered a half hour follow-up phone call with the Instructor after the class concludes.  Students must summit an email upon registration for link to class.  

Class is Full


Call (706) 632-2144 for questions regarding this course and registration.  Payment is required to register for BRMAA courses. You may pay via PayPal above, over the phone, or visit The Art Center located at 420 West Main Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513 to pay in person. The Programming Coordinator is in the office from 10 am - 6pm on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
CAROL CRAWFORD

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Carol Crawford is the owner of Carol Crawford Editing and author of The Habit of Mercy: Poems about Daughters and Mothers. 
Carol has taught creative writing for more than twenty years.  For the past seven years she has  worked as a free-lance editor serving more than sixty authors of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature.  She has led workshops for the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Dahlonega Literary Festival, the Red Clay Writers’ Conference, the Writers’ Circle, the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and the Carrollton, Georgia, Writers’ Club.  She has been volunteer program coordinator for the Blue Ridge Writers’ Conference since it began more than twenty years ago.  Her memberships include the Editorial Freelancers Association, the North Carolina Writers Network, Georgia Writers, and the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association.
She has published essays, poetry, and fiction in in the Southern Humanities Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Concho River Review, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies, among others.  She loves to help people tell their stories.