Memoir: Your Uniquely Personal Story Told Through Your Particular Voice
Presenter: Barbara Millman Cole, Creative Writing Coach, Content Editor, and Writer
Barbara Millman Cole is an award-winning Writer of Literary Short Stories and Short Story Memoir. She began writing feature stories and editing for the Jakarta Post newspaper and Suara Alam (Voice of Nature) magazine in Indonesia. She has worked as an editor for Astraea Press and is currently a freelance editor for Amazon best-selling and prize-winning Romance authors, as well as creative nonfiction Self-Help and Memoir authors. She is a contributing author to Creativity Coaching Success Stories, the Creativity Coaching Association Newsletter “Creativity Calling,” and wrote “Scaffold Your Literary Life” articles for Author Entrepreneur Magazine. Over the years, Barbara also has written a series of Brief Meditations for Avalon Newsletter, soon to be published in book form, and feature stories for The East Bay Times. She has won numerous awards for her Literary short stories, among them: “Natural Birth” (Frontiers in Writing and PSWG), “Between Heaven and Earth” (Writer’s Digest), and “Morning Tea” (Pleasanton Poetry, Prose, and Art Competition and Frontiers in Writing).
Barbara has facilitated seminars and developed six-week writing workshops, Discover the Joy of Writing I and Discover the Joy of Writing II, in which she helps writers realize writing can be fun. Her techniques ease authors into an enjoyable, fulfilling routine. Barbara’s retreats and write shops include grounding exercises, guided visualizations, and meditations that help writers foster productive writing habits, dispel obstacles, delve deep, and better convey their intended meaning through memoir, fiction, and creative nonfiction stories.
Description:
Memoir is a telling of your story, a uniquely personal story. And like your life, your memoir is seen from your own singular vantage point, told through your own individual voice. Learn to let yourself move fluidly through your story, traveling back into your past, propelling yourself forward through your experiences. Use your true voice to relay the meaning you wish to impart to your readers, but most importantly, discover for yourself the greater meaning behind the reason you want to tell your story.
Together, with pen and paper, we will delve deep, using techniques of meditation, guided visualization, and group discussion, to uncover your own voice, and learn to reach the level of “deep reveal” your memoir deserves.
Questions? e-mail bmillmancole@sbcglobal.net
Location:
The Galen at Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert is located at 72-567 Highway 111, Palm Desert, CA 92260. The museum is located next to Cuistot Restaurant, and faces Hwy 111.
Driving Entrance to the Museum: click map for directions
If driving Hwy 111 from Palm Springs toward Palm Desert, there is an entrance to the museum off of 111, just before El Paseo. There's also an entrance off El Paseo. Lots of FREE parking.
Classroom: Enter through the main front door. There are adequate outlets for people who need to charge their phones or iPads.
To received a full refund minus a $25 cancellation processing fee, attendees must cancel their registration 5 days before the event. No refunds will be given after that time.
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