|
| |
|
Workshop Descriptions & Instructors
|
Finding the Story in Your Story: A Memoir Writing Workshop Exploring Spiritual Writing
Finding the Story in Your Story: A Memoir Writing Workshop Each life is full of stories, rich with meaning and peopled by fascinating characters. This class will help students find the stories in their own stories and get them down on paper. The course will use a variety of writing exercises to spark memories and help make their way onto the page. One of our goals will be learning to write more freely by practicing turning off the overly self-critical internal editor. We’ll also work on using specific detail and language, and become familiar with narrative techniques such as voice, narrative drive, and dual past/present perspective to develop our own stories effectively. Students will be generating new work through exercises and assignments, and student writing will be shared in a positive, supportive environment. The class is for writers at all stages—from beginners to those with work in progress. Exploring Spiritual Writing What do the people, animals, events, and problems we encounter in our daily lives have to teach us? How can we tap into the sacred to enhance our sense of beauty and connectedness and to explore ourselves and our ways of being in the world? In this workshop, students will use a variety of in-class writing exercises to consider the answers to these questions, and to examine what they feel, sense, and know—or might not know—about hope, grace, the meaning of life and death, and more. Biography
|
|
Site
Map | Welcome | Workshops
by Session Date | Workshops
by Instructor Sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education Last updated on February 4, 2009 |
|