Leave all you have learned about the story arc behind and enter a world of writing where word choice rules.
You want to write – for yourself, your family or to publish – but you have trouble capturing and ordering your thoughts. Let Tammy introduce you to the Lyric Essay, where you can start in the middle or at the end or even the beginning, leave white spaces, learn to trust your reader, digress, return, repeat, jump around and still not worry about getting it “wrong.”
A combination of poetry and prose, memoir and experimentation Lyric Essay is creative nonfiction in a variety of forms using everything from lists to dreams to “perhapsing” to get at the truth of what you want to say. Leave all you have learned about the story arc behind and enter a world of writing where word choice rules. Think of it as a genre where you make your own rules! We will learn, read examples and write each session.
What to Expect:
You will learn to identify a lyric essay as a subgenre of Creative Nonfiction and more be able to name the three main lyric essay forms and write a Braided Essay. By the time we finish, you will be able to take non-lyric writing and make it sing by applying these Lyric Essay methods!
3 sessions | Tuesday | Feb 18, 25, Mar 4 | 10:30-noon | IN PERSON at the Easton Family YMCA | $50
