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“Worldbuilding” calls to mind fictional settings—Hogwarts, Gatsby’s mansion, Alice’s Wonderland—but creating a vivid world on the page is just as essential in creative nonfiction.

Memoirs offer the unique opportunity to inhabit the inner world of the writer, accessing our deepest thoughts, feelings, and truths. Using hyper-specific detail and sensory images, memoirists can pull readers in, keep them engaged until the final sentence, and make them care about our stories and characters.

This webinar will explore why worldbuilding—both exterior and interior—is important in memoir and provide practical tips for creating memorable worlds that captivate your readers. We’ll look at examples from published memoirs to uncover how evocative settings make us care about a writer’s experience.

In this webinar, you will:

• EXPLORE why worldbuilding is so important in memoir

• LEARN to apply worldbuilding techniques to your own memoir, including the use of “telling details,” specificity, and the five senses

• ADDRESS the practical challenges of worldbuilding in memoir, including memory gaps, which details to include vs. not include, and more

All registrants will receive a recording.

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Learn how to follow the energy in your story to generate powerful, high-stakes material that bypasses your inner critic and gets to emotional truth.

When we try to write methodically, we shut down the part of us that’s in flow. Planning every scene and forcing ourselves to be logical and linear blocks our creative energy. We produce stale, predictable pages that feel dull to write and even duller to read. Meanwhile, our inner critic gets louder, our perfectionism takes over, and we avoid the vulnerable places we need to go to make personal narrative work. Your subconscious knows what you need to write better than your logical mind does—but how can you access that energy on demand? 

The “Write the Heat” method is an intuition-driven practice that helps you follow currents of energy rather than a premeditated sequence. By writing toward what feels tense, interesting, or unresolved (the moments that carry “heat”), we trick ourselves into saying the truest thing. We generate material that’s raw, compelling, and emotionally honest. With “Writing the Heat,” you’ll write faster, with more confidence, and stumble upon insights you never would have found through careful planning.

In this seminar, you’ll learn the foundational technique of Katie’s proven “Write the Heat” process and practice it through guided prompts. Discover how to silence your inner critic, follow your gut instinct, and generate high-stakes material that captures what your story is really about. You’ll take away concrete methods to produce more—and truer—pages every time you sit down to write.

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