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Life Writing for Beginners: Turn Your Memories into Memoir

Life Writing for Beginners: Turn Your Memories into Memoir

Unlock your memories, shape them into true stories and write fairly about real people, then plan, draft and revise a memoir piece. 50 written lessons plus 10 practice downloads.

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Expiry period	Lifetime
Made in	English
Last updated at	Mon Nov 2026
Level	Beginner
Total lectures	60
Total quizzes	10
Total duration	10:45:00 Hours
Total enrolment	0
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Short description	Unlock your memories, shape them into true stories and write fairly about real people, then plan, draft and revise a memoir piece. 50 written lessons plus 10 practice downloads.
Outcomes	Understand the main forms of life writing and decide on your own purpose and readers Set up a memory notebook and a small, regular writing habit you can keep Unlock memories with prompts, photographs, objects, music, places, a life timeline and interviews Find your themes, choose what to leave out and pick a structure for a piece or a book Write vivid scenes, use summary well, and craft openings, concrete details and endings Bring real people, places and periods to life, with dialogue you can stand behind Find your own voice, handle point of view and write openly about the limits of memory Approach difficult memories safely and write fairly about living people, with the basics of privacy, defamation and copyright Revise and proofread your work, give and receive feedback, and choose how to share it Plan, draft and revise a finished memoir piece and outline a book or collection of your life stories
Requirements	No writing experience needed; the course starts with what life writing is and how to begin A notebook and pens, and somewhere to keep loose papers; a computer is useful but not essential Some memories you'd like to write about, from any part of your life A way to print the PDF worksheets and templates is useful but not essential