Writers have a little holy light within, like a pilot light, which fear is always blowing out.
When a writer brings a manuscript fresh from the making, at the moment of greatest vulnerability, that's the moment for friends to help get the little holy light lit again. For writers at all levels who want to shape personal experiences into good stories or longer narratives that others will want to read. Participants in this workshop will be invited to bring a draft of a particular memory or family story - material that they are still struggling to understand but feel an urgency to explore. Through exercises designed to develop confidence and imaginative freedom, participants will clarify the precepts and values they bring to their work, and discover that each draft of a story or written memory has something new to teach them. The group will also learn how the increasingly open borders between fiction and memoir are generating new ways of writing personal history.