Writing Resources
Writing resources to inspire
innovative storytelling.
Articles
Making yourself a character in your story
On revealing secrets in our stories
The diptych as short-form memoir
Life writing tips: How asking questions can spark new stories
Visual CNF forms: A look at the concrete essay
4 powerful ways to use images and text in CNF
Answering the call: On writing about trauma and loss
Let’s get graphic: A look at the visual essay
On seeking the truth in our stories
4 new ways to tell your stories
Courses
Spark Your Story
Designed as a creativity accelerator for life writers, SYS is a series of transformative online writing workshops scheduled to the end of June 2020 (with a self-study learning option in the works). Based on the Foundations of Story mini-course — a life writer’s guide to the creative process — each workshop includes pre-writing exercises, prompts, and journal reflections designed to tap your most potent material. Upcoming workshop themes include Where the Heart Is (April); The Bigger World (May); and Nature + The Spirit (June).
Spark Your Outlier Story
An outlier is someone or something that exists on the margins, set apart by what makes it unique. In this popular 6-week course we’ll explore the flash essay, prose poem, lyric essay, and hermit crab essay—forms ideal for crafting new, surprising, and innovative short-form memoir that readers (and editors) will love!
Spark Your Visual Story
The photo essay, concrete essay, pictorial essay, and paper craft essay combine textual and visual storytelling to create greater depth, meaning, and impact for the reader. In this exciting 6-week course on CNF forms inspired by visual art we’ll craft innovative personal narratives that bend—and blend—genres.
I 'm Nicole Breit
- Award winning poet and essayist residing on Canada’s gorgeous Sunshine Coast, the traditional territory of the Skwx̱wú7mesh people.
- Creative writing teacher whose passion is to help writers discover new ways to shape their memories into well-crafted narratives.
Free mini e-book
Loss is a universal story theme—grief, a common block to writing our raw, vulnerable stories about loss. In this free e-book I share 9 tips for writing about grief and loss with care and intention.
How I help life writers craft their best work
I love the work I do, helping brave truth tellers write their stories. And I love celebrating when writers are recognized for the work they produce in one of my classes -- when they get their first acceptance with a journal, their name on a contest shortlist, or win...