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Telling Your Story with Joyce Maynard

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“No matter what level writer you are, Joyce Maynard can make you better. She knows how to distill a story to its essence and help you shape it into a compelling experience for the reader.” For twenty-five years, New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard has been leading workshops in the art and craft of memoir all over the U.S. and beyond. In light of the challenging times, Joyce has recorded, from her home by Lake Atitlan, a series of intimate conversations that will help you locate and tell YOUR story, identify your themes, and address the relationships between memoir and history.

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December 17, 2021

The Three Amigos - An Excerpt from Count The Ways

<h3>Today's episode is a special one! An excerpt from Count The Ways, Joyce's latest (tenth) novel. </h3> If you liked this story and want more, pick up your own copy of <a href="https://www.joycemaynard.com/count-the-ways">COUNT THE WAYS</a>. About <a href="https://www.joycemaynard.com/count-the-ways" target="_blank">COUNT THE WAYS</a> In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family—from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She’s an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are parents to three children - two daughters and a red-headed son who fills his pockets with rocks, plays the violin and talks to God. To Eleanor, their New Hampshire farm provides everything she always wanted—summer nights watching Cam’s softball games, snow days by the fire and the annual tradition of making paper boats and cork people to launch in the brook every spring. If Eleanor and Cam don’t make love as often as they used to, they have something that matters more. Their family. Then comes a terrible accident, caused by Cam’s negligence. Unable to forgive him, Eleanor is consumed by bitterness, losing herself in her life as a mother, while Cam finds solace with a new young partner. Over the decades that follow, the five members of this fractured family make surprising discoveries and decisions that occasionally bring them together, and often tear them apart. Tracing the course of their lives—through the gender transition of one child and another’s choice to completely break with her mother—Joyce Maynard captures a family forced to confront essential, painful truths of its past, and find redemption in its darkest hours. A story of holding on and learning to let go, Count the Ways is an achingly beautiful, poignant, and deeply compassionate novel of home, parenthood, love, and forgiveness.

July 26, 2021

The Writing Practice

Today's episode answers a very popular question - one concerning the creative process - how do we bring our best selves to the table, and keep showing up?  Since 1977, Joyce has created and followed a highly disciplined work practice that also keeps her inspired. But before sharing the elements of her writing practice, she reminds us that everybody has to create his/her/their own writing practice, based on what they know about themselves. Perhaps through Joyce's examples and anecdotes, you, too, will be inspired to create a dedicated space for your most important work, and then be devoted to doing the work, and doing great work.

June 16, 2021

Establishing a Point of View

First person? Third person? Through whose eyes are we experiencing the story as it unfolds?  This is an area where so many of us can - and often do - get into trouble, and violate the rules of good story-telling.  In this episode, Joyce guides us on how to establish and maintain a point of view that best serves our story. When we have point of view down, it makes us more trustworthy as narrators, which will then allow our readers to be fully invested in the stories we have to tell.

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What is Telling Your Story with Joyce Maynard?: “No matter what level writer you are, Joyce Maynard can make you better. She knows how to distill a story to its essence and help you shape it into a compelling experience for the reader.”

For twenty-five years, New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard has been leading workshops in the art and craft of memoir all over the U.S. and beyond. In light of the challenging times, Joyce has recorded, from her home by Lake Atitlan, a series of intimate conversations that will help you locate and tell YOUR story, identify your themes, and address the relationships between memoir and history.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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