Family narratives are endlessly fascinating for readers to read and they are deeply emotional for writers to craft. In this ONLINE program facilitated by family counselor and novelist Lynne Reeves Griffin, participants will consider the particulars of the family story, learning to make craft decisions about the best, and most thoughtful way to approach writing one. How do you know whether a story should be told as a memoir or as a novel? What literary tools can you use to maximize the reader's experience of profound truths, even if they are fictionalized? While there are conventions to consider, the only rule for writing fiction and nonfiction about family is to do so with empathy.
Join Lynne for a session that will explore the big picture issues and practical strategies for writing the family story as a therapeutic practice for understanding and healing, whether you plan to publish your work or not.
$33 for the session.
Be Well Be Here offers scholarships and subsidized fees to share practice with ALL. Please Be in touch if you have any questions by emailing Jen at info@bewellbehere.org.
Lynne Reeves Griffin is an internationally recognized family counselor, public speaker, teacher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her short fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in Parents, Psychology Today, Solstice Literary Magazine, Chautauqua Journal, Craft Literary, Fiction Writers Review, Brain, Child and more. Lynne regularly appears as a media guest expert to discuss contemporary family life and preventive mental health. She guides schools in the US and abroad to adopt social emotional learning curricula.
Writing as Lynne Griffin, she is the author of the family-focused novels, Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press), Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster), and Girl Sent Away (SixOneSeven Books). She also writes novels of domestic suspense as Lynne Reeves, including The Dangers of an Ordinary Night. Her next novel, Dark Rivers to Cross (Crooked Lane Books) about inherited trauma and parenting, is forthcoming November 2022. For more about Lynne's work visit LynneGriffin.com.
“ — a sensitive examination of a dysfunctional family and a full-of-secrets community that claims to be seeking the truth.”
