ABSTRACT
Workshop nineteen
Introduces the practice of using fictional techniques in life writing.
Explores the techniques, such as re-imagining (or inventing dialogue), compressing or changing the order of events, combining several characters into one.
Discusses how to keep the trust of the reader in your story if/when some things are imagined.
Looks at the genre of autobiographical fiction – what is it?
Discusses the ethics of writing on the ‘borderlands’.
Readings (Alexandra Joel) and Exercises to explore the ideas in the chapter.
