SETTING THE STAGE: HOW TO WRITE FICTION NOVELS OR MEMOIRS.
Week 1. Choosing your subject. (If you are writing a memoir, what point of your life or specific events will you write about (i.e. a travel memoir.)
Week 2. Theme
Week 3. Developing Plot
Week 4. Voice (first person or third person singular or multiple point of view
Week 5. Developing Your Characters (in memoirs, perhaps some geneology background etc.)
Week 6. Dialogue. (in memoirs, which are first person narratives, there are often other people telling stories. This is called a “frame story” and is told in the voice of that person.
Week 7. Setting. Where does your story take place and when? (writing description).
Week 8. Research tips. How much research do you need to do? And how to do it. (sources)
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