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This four-week workshop guides you through the creative process for writing your personal narrative in compact form for posterity.

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A lifetime of storytelling

Glenn Schaeffer is a veteran literary professional and MFA graduate of the esteemed Iowa Writer’s Workshop.

He is the author of the oft-cited We Wanted to Be Writers, which chronicles how “name” literary writers absorbed their trade at Iowa. He was a founder of a literary agency, with ties to Hollywood movie-production, which represented high-profile storytellers. He was also a longtime executive in hospitality and entertainment.

Glenn considers his most important literary work to be fostering the connections between the Creative Writing Programs at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, UC Irvine, UNLV Black Mountain Institute and Victoria University. Through his generous donations he established the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship at Victoria University, the Schaeffer Graduate Fellowship at UC Irvine, and the nation’s first City of Asylum in Las Vegas.

This four-week workshop guides you through the creative process for writing your personal narrative in compact form for posterity.

You will discover your authentic voice on paper that captures the lasting attention of family and readers for generations. The Ultimate Story takes you through a distinct method for engaging and rewarding an audience as only narrative can do.
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
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I learned how to think and write about my life experiences — how it shaped me rather than see it as a series of events. I have seen how hard it can be for the family to talk about their loved one when they die. They don't know what to say. I have written my story for them to remember me by.
S. Paul, Retired Executive
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As I get older I have thought more about leaving something behind for my family, so they know more about who I am not just what they have experienced of my life. I wanted them to know our family history. Now, I have something for them to hold onto and share with their children.
B. Rodgers, Business Owner