Replay: Meg Wolitzer shares Five Things She's Learned about Writing about Family
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
"If you’ve ever been in a family of some kind, then you know that the moments you spend with them can be peppered with interesting and unexpected bursts of emotion, tension, revelation, or even crisis. We’ll be talking about all of that. How something might happen in real life, and how it might happen on the page. What’s different between real life families and the ones we invent. How a writer might take what happens in their own family and translate it into fiction."
– Meg Wolitzer, Five Things I’ve Learned about Writing about Family
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. Her most recent release, The Female Persuasion, has been celebrated Time Magazine, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and New York Magazine. Here’s the first five minutes of her recent two-hour class in which Meg shares the Five Things she’s learned about the differences between real life families and the ones we invent – and how a writer might take what happens in their own family and translate it into fiction.
Five Things I’ve Learned about Writing about Family builds on what Meg’s learned from her own extensive experience writing about family, and how even the definition of the word is hard to pin down when dealing with fiction. She also leaves time at the end of the session to answer some of participants’ most pressing questions about writing craft and process, including questions about story, character, dialogue, and humor.
If you’re writing about your own family – or if you’re wondering how great writers tackle this most sensitive of subjects – this class is for you.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel Belzhar. She lives in New York City.
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