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Linda Bendorf
Jumpstarting Your Creativity
One-Week Workshop
July 20–25 and July 27-Aug 1
Biography
Jumpstarting Your Creativity
One-Week Workshop
July 20–25
and July 27-Aug 1
Is your creativity gene on hiatus? Do you love the power and beauty of language, but lack time or inspiration? As writer Donald Murray suggested, it takes a destination and a plan to make surprise possible. Whether you seek to restore personal or professional creativity and innovation, serious work requires serious play. Even if you’ve taken this workshop before, this newly revised course invites you to recharge.
Before the workshop begins, I’ll ask for a letter telling me what you think creates gridlock in your writing life. During our high energy, focused, yet flexible time together, plan to generate all new work. We’ll plunge into exercises and strategies to spark creativity and to bypass mental roadblocks. We’ll write quickly to stay ahead of the inner critic, and boldly to outsmart the censor. Experience a marketplace of ideas where strategic writing prompts invite you to take intellectual and creative risks that lead to breakthrough thinking.
In good workshop fashion, we’ll share our work as time allows. A desired outcome is for you to leave with a storehouse of language and ideas to motivate long after the workshop ends.
Biography
Linda Bendorf (M.A.T., J.D., The University of Iowa) is a writer and award-winning teacher with over twenty years of experience inspiring students of all ages. She participated in the Iowa Writing Project; taught essay writing at the Belin Blank International Center for Gifted Education; and served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Coe College, and as Language Arts and Reading External Consultant at ACT, Inc. She was selected Iowa City’s Outstanding Young Educator as Language Arts Department Chair with the Iowa City Community Schools. Linda’s columns and features have appeared in McCall’s, USA Today, Gannett News Service Wire, The Des Moines Register, Instructor, The Iowan, and Accent. Her poetry has appeared in 100 Words. She and her husband live in the Chicago area, where Linda is Director of Blue Sage Writing (www.bluesagewriting.com).
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