Writing practice strengthens the writer s craft by extending writing times on topics that take writers deep into their creative unconscious. By going deep under the clock to waylay the internal editor, writers break through the emotional barriers that block creativity. Using the discipline of writing practice, students dive into memory and bring back stories. During the first weekend, writers probe memory for emotion, loss, pain, and significant detail. The second weekend the discipline of writing practice, students dive deep into memory and bring back stories.
Stories then find form short story, novel, novella, film-script, stage play.
These are hands-on workshops with intensive writing in class. This intensive two-day workshop introduces the writer to the form and techniques of the personal memoir. Using musical patterns based on Theme, Variation, Development, and Recapitulation writers explore the Memoir Moment as the main formal structure of the memoir. Think of the memoir as a series of moments in the past frozen in your writing. The structure of the Memoir Moment can be seen as a theme with variations in much the same way a jazz musician or a classical composer works with theme and variations.