Brad Wetzler | Writers.com https://writers.com/instructor/brad-wetzler Your voice is a gift. Share it. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:25:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Show and Tell: How to Write Captivating Memoir and Nonfiction https://writers.com/course/show-and-tell-how-to-write-captivating-memoir-and-nonfiction Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:40:24 +0000 https://writers.com/?post_type=product&p=42735 Discover how to share your true story in ways that captivate your readers, by balancing showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling its broader, resonant themes.

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You’ll Leave This Course Knowing:

  • How to balance showing and telling in narrative writing.
  • How to ground readers in the moment, writing “from the feet up.”
  • The relationship between past and present tense in nonfiction writing.
  • How to best combine story, reflection, and reporting.
  • Book, chapter, and story structures that stick with the reader.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to share your true story with the world. Great narrative writing relies on the same storytelling principles as short stories and novels—and on telling the reader exactly what you think.

In this course, you’ll learn how to share your story in ways that resonate with and captivate your readers. You’ll learn how to properly balance showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling the broader themes that your readers can apply in their own lives.

Show and Tell is for new and experienced nonfiction writers, and anyone who wants to engage and enrich readers with your own life journey. By the end of this course, you will have everything you need to craft powerful true stories that both captivate and inform your readers.

What’s Included:

  • A 1-hour video recording of Brad Wetzler’s guidance for writing powerful, resonant nonfiction and memoir.
  • A complete text transcript of the video materials.
  • Lifetime course access.

100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

If for any reason you are not satisfied with the course, you may request a full refund within 14 days, no questions asked.

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]]> Show and Tell: How to Write Captivating Memoir and Nonfiction https://writers.com/course/show-and-tell-how-to-write-captivating-nonfiction Sat, 17 Sep 2022 23:38:23 +0000 https://writers.com/product/show-and-tell-how-to-write-captivating-nonfiction Your true story of healing or transformation can captivate and empower your readers. Learn how to balance showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling the broader themes for readers to apply in their own lives.

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]]> In this workshop, you’ll learn how to share your true story with the world. This course is for new and experienced nonfiction writers, and anyone who wants to engage and enrich readers with your own life journey.

Great narrative writing relies on the same storytelling principles as short stories and novels—and on telling the reader exactly what you think. In this course, you’ll learn how to share your story in ways that resonate with and captivate your readers. You’ll learn how to properly balance showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling the broader themes that your readers can apply in their own lives.

Along the way, we will discuss the following:

  • Book, chapter, and story structures that stick with the reader.
  • How to balance showing and telling in narrative writing.
  • How to best combine story, reflection, and reporting.
  • How to ground readers in the moment, writing “from the feet up.”
  • The relationship between past and present tense in nonfiction writing.

By the end of this course, you will have everything you need to tell powerful true stories that both captivate and inform your readers.

Workshop Schedule

This workshop will begin at 7 P.M. U.S. Eastern Time.

7:00-8:15: Lecture

Topics include:

  • Book and Chapter Structure in a Nutshell: How to structure nonfiction books and chapters—and how to leave things out.
  • Balancing “Show” and “Tell”: Balancing storytelling and reflection, and “earning the tell” through compelling storytelling.
  • How to Mix Story, Reflection, and Reporting: Blending the three tools of storytelling, reflection/interpretation, and reportage/education.
  • Teaching from the Feet Up: How to ground your story in physical reality, heart, and then head.
  • The Dance of Time: Understanding the “then”/innocent voice and “now”/experienced voice.
  • Vulnerability/Action/Suspense/Transformation (VAST), and how they matter for your nonfiction writing.
8:15-8:30: Break

8:30-8:50: Writing exercise from prompt

Brad will provide a two-part writing prompt that will challenge students to 1) tell a lean, powerful story with strong “showing” qualities and 2) and then add sentences that clearly and concisely “tell” the reader the “lessons learned.”

8:50-10:00:  Open Q&A and discussion

Students will be able to ask questions and read what they’ve written during the writing prompt period and receive oral feedback from Brad.

Why Take a Memoir Writing Course with Writers.com?

  • We welcome writers of all backgrounds and experience levels, and we are here for one reason: to support you on your writing journey.
  • Small groups keep our online writing classes lively and intimate.
  • Work through your weekly written lectures, course materials, and writing assignments at your own pace.
  • Share and discuss your work with classmates in a supportive class environment.
  • Award-winning instructor Brad Wetzler will offer you direct, personal feedback.

Click the Enroll Now button below, enter your details on the Checkout page,
and reserve your spot in the course.

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