Craft Workshop: The Embodied Storyteller, Scenes that Pull the Reader in Close with Sherry Sidoti

The age-old advice for great scene writing is to “show vs. tell.” The task of the storyteller is to write with visceral and vivid sensory details, so that readers feel they are inside the experience themselves. As memoirists, we have the advantage that we are writing our lived experience, thus these details are imprinted in our cellular memory, ripe to write. With a simple embodiment practice, we can bend time to return to a memory, allow details that we may have forgotten to arise, and write vibrant scenes from that full-bodied, felt place. Our stories unfold into sensual scenes of exteriority and interiority, rich and alive with emotion and meaning for our reader.

90 minutes. Workshop open to non-members and members. Recorded + added to Full Access Library.

Sherry Sidoti is a mom, award-winning author of the memoir A Smoke and a Song, yoga teacher, Embodied Memoir Writing programs founder and steward, and a midwife of…