Episode Synopsis "The Container Story"

The impulse that so many writers have when approaching memoir, is to tell everything... but we don't have to tell everything all at once.  Joyce suggests to begin with some short stories, and today we explore the short personal essay - there is a way in a very short space to tell a very big story - Joyce calls this the Container Story. 

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More episodes of the podcast Telling Your Story with Joyce Maynard

• The Three Amigos - An Excerpt from Count The Ways
• The Writing Practice
• Establishing a Point of View
• Structure in Story-telling: The Road-Trip
• *Live* with Joyce at Lake Atitlan: On Dead Language
• How do we go from the Big Themes to the Smaller Stories?
• Exploring the Concept of the Container - with Betsy
• The Container Story
• The Point of Entry
• Moral Dilemma in Personal Narratives and Memoir: Is it our job to make the readers feel comfortable with our stories?
• The Stakes of Being An Honest Writer
• How to Write an Honest Story Without Hurting Others
• Identifying Your Obsessions
• Why Write?
• An Introduction to Writing Memoir