Writing Your Love Stories

A Google search on ‘writing your love stories’ turns up 198,000,000 hits in literally under one second. What makes a good, true love story? The setting and characters, the action and dialogue, the prose. And still more important is the narrative arc. Whether it be flash nonfiction, essay, short or long memoir, there needs to be a journey to the epiphany. We will examine the narrative arc in forms from flash nonfiction to a Modern Love essay and do a writing exercise, shaping a memory into a page of your love story.

Saturday, 8/01/2015, 12–4 p.m.

SUSAN TIBERGHIEN, an American writer living in Geneva, Switzerland, has been teaching writing for over twenty years. She is the author of four nonfiction books: Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis;Circling to the Center, An Invitation to Silent Prayer; and the best-selling writing book, One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft with two new titles to be published this spring: Side by Side, Writing Your Love Story and Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman. She has published numerous essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. She teaches at graduate programs, C.G. Jung Centers, Writers’ Centers and Conferences, in the States and in Europe, and at the monthly Geneva Writing Workshops. She has been a workshop director for International Women’s Writing Guild since 1990. An active member of International Pen, she directs the Geneva Writers’ Group and Conferences. Married, with six adult children and fifteen wonderful grandchildren. www.susantiberghien.com

Register at https://writerscenter.org/courses/writing-love-stories