Turning Life into Fiction

There’s no doubt that your life has been full of interesting, fun or painful events that you have wanted to write about. Maybe you want to reveal names, dates or places – but maybe you fear that you might hurt someone or worse, that you may be sued. Should our stories be written as truthful essays or memoirs, or as fiction? Toni Morrison said, "Teaching is about taking things apart; writing is about putting things together." In this class we will play with writing your story as both memoir and…