Are you new to writing fiction or memoir and wondering how to bring your story to life, one scene at a time? This beginner-friendly workshop is designed to help you understand and apply the essential building blocks of strong storytelling—starting with the scene.
In this supportive, hands-on session, you’ll learn how to:
- Understand what a scene is and why it matters
- Use a basic story arc to shape the beginning, middle, and end of a scene
- “Show, don’t tell” to make your writing more vivid and engaging
- Use sensory details to draw readers into the world of your story
- Practice scene-writing through simple, guided exercises
Whether you're writing your first memoir or novel, or simply exploring your creativity, this workshop will give you the tools and confidence to start crafting scenes that resonate with readers.
No prior writing experience needed—just curiosity and a willingness to learn!
Join us for a fun, encouraging introduction to the craft of scene writing and take your first steps toward telling the story only you can tell.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Alyssa Berthiaume (known by most as Ally and published under A.Y.) is a mompreneur, author, ghostwriter, and writing guide with a superpower for hearing between the lines. She guides badass and brilliant, loving, and soulful people in writing their incredible personal stories of grit, hope, and triumph meant to inspire their audience, transform the masses, and change the 'effin' world.
She is the founder of The Write Place, Right Time, her virtual boutique professional writing services where she serves entrepreneurs, leaders, and visionaries internationally to bring their books to the world via her book coaching, developmental editing, and ghostwriting services. Her genre of choice is nonfiction with a specialty in memoirs.
Berthiaume is also the award-winning author of Dear Universe, I Get it Now: Letters on the Art and Journey of Being Brave and Being Me and the award-winning co-author of Do Not Write a Book…Until You Read This One. She has an M.F.A. and B.A. in creative writing and graduate certificates in English Composition and Women’s Studies.
She is a native Vermonter, practicing Ally and advocate, recovering middle child, wannabe superhero, and a mom who’s pretty sure she’s “winging it”. If you can catch her away from the keyboard, she's probably drinking Maple Lattes in a coffee shop, watching The Princess Bride for the thousandth time, spending too many hours in a bookstore adding more books to her must-read list, or having a movie and game night with her husband and son.
ZOOM INFO:
Once you register, the Zoom link will be made available to you.
The password to the Zoom meeting is: bebrave.
WORKSHOP MATERIALS:
A digital workbook will be provided, but please also show up prepared to work inside a Word or Google document or within a notebook in case you have trouble accessing the workbook.
