Discover your authentic voice.
This four-week workshop guides you through the creative process for writing your personal narrative.
The Ultimate Story
Everyone has their special story to tell, and with the right tools, you can achieve both meaning and clarity in the endeavor. In The Ultimate Story, you will cross the intimidating divide from casual oral communication to a vital written expression of purpose in your life. And chances are, your story would have disappeared else wise.
Current research into “positive aging” has shown that fear of erasure looms as a pressing concern in elderhood. This workshop – and your deliverables – stand as a defense against such erasure. One of your deliverables will be your advance obituary, as well-crafted and resonant as any published in the major press. Psychologists recommend this very exercise as the successful poetic for assessing your life – that no other writer can surpass.
The Ultimate Story gets you beyond the stale “trap of chronology,” this and then this happened, as you present your own life in terms of rounded character, full of agency, spirit, and perspective. For that’s who you are and what you deserve in remembrance.
About Glenn
Glenn Schaeffer graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with both a BA and MA from the University of California at Irvine. He earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and received an honorary Litterarum Doctor (Litt.D.) from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and his Legum Doctor (LL.D.) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is the founding patron of The International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. The Institute’s Schaeffer Fellowship in Comparative Literature has sponsored numerous writers, including Eleanor Catton, winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize in 2013 and Alice Miller, winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award. He also founded the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. With the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, his role as an ardent advocate for the cause of free speech has assisted writers of conscience by establishing Las Vegas as the first U.S. City of Asylum.
