Show and Tell: How to Write Captivating Memoir and Nonfiction

In this course, you’ll learn how to properly balance showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling the broader themes that your readers can apply in their own lives. Below, you’ll find:

• Book, chapter, and story structures that stick with the reader.
• How to balance showing and telling in narrative writing.
• How to best combine story, reflection, and reporting.
• How to ground readers in the moment, writing “from the feet up.”
• The relationship between past and present tense in nonfiction writing.

Welcome to Show and Tell!

—Brad