MEMOIR WRITING – The outline of your memoir 2

A memoir is about your life. But not your entire one. It’s about one piece of your life. About a certain story arc.

What story do you want to tell? This event is about the structure of your memoirs. The key events in your story.
The entire memoir writing workshop consists of nine steps, which we offer in 18 sessions. You can join at any time. Below you will find the current and upcoming dates:

Sunday, 31 8.2025 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(10) The structure of your memoirs
The key events in your story.

Sunday, 26 10.2025 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(11) Events for your first draft 1
What elements does your story need?
Write the stories for the events.

Sunday, 30.11.2025 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(12) Events for your first draft 2
What major moments in your genre
will happen next?
Write the stories for the events.

Sunday 28.12.2025 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(13) Check the structure of your memoirs 1
Review the outline,
conventions of your genre, and scenes.

Sunday 25.1.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(14) Check the structure of your memoirs 2
Organize your book in tabular form.
Look at its scene by scene.

Sunday 22.2.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(15) Your second draft
Are all genre elements present?

Sunday 29.3.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(16) Your third draft
Fine-tuning.

Sunday 26.4.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(17) Write and review
until your memoirs are complete.

Sunday 31.5.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(18) Complete your memoir and celebrate.

Memoirs Writing New Start

DECIDE WHAT YOUR BOOK IS ABOUT

Sunday 28.6.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(1) Your memoir.
What story do you want to tell?
What message do you want to convey?

Sunday 26.7.2026.CET 10:00 – 12:00
(2) What message do you want to convey?

THE CENTRAL IDEA OF YOUR MEMOIR

Sunday 30.8.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(3) What did you want most?
What did you (the protagonist)
want and need most in this story?

Sunday 27.9.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(4) The central idea of your memoir.
What value changes in your story?
How are you different now than you were before?

CHOOSE YOUR INTERNAL GENRE

Sunday 25.10.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(5) Your internal genre 1
Is it a worldview story?
A status story?
Or a morality tale?

Sunday 29.11.2026 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(6) Your internal genre 2
What did you subconsciously
want in your story?

CHOOSE YOUR EXTERNAL GENRE

Sunday 27.12.2026 CET 10:00-12:00
(7) Your external genre 1
What life value is at stake?

Sunday 31.1.2027 CET 10:00-12:00
(8) Your external genre 2
Narrative means, Conventions
and obligatory scenes.

CREATE AN OUTLINE

Sunday 28.2.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(9) The structure of your memoirs 1
What are the beginning, middle and end of your story?

Sunday 28.3.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(10) The structure of your memoirs 2
The key events in your story.

WRITE YOUR FIRST DRAFT

Sunday 25.4.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(11) Events for your first draft 1
What elements does your story need?
Write the stories for the events.

Sunday 30.5.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(12) Events for your first draft 2
What major moments in your genre
are going to happen next?
Write the stories for the events.

CHECK THE STRUCTURE OF YOUR MEMOIRS

Sunday 27.6.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(13) Check the structure of your memoirs 1
Review the outline,
conventions of your genre, and scenes.

Sunday 25.7.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(14) Check the structure of your memoirs 2
Organize your book in tabular form.
Look at its scene by scene.

WRITE YOUR NEXT DRAFT

Sunday 29.8.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(15) Your second draft
Are all genre elements present?

Sunday 26.9.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(16) Your third draft
Fine-tuning.

YOUR MEMOIR

Sunday 31.10.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(17) Write and review
until your memoirs are complete.

Sunday 28.11.2027 CET 10:00 – 12:00
(18) Complete your memoirs and celebrate.