The Blank Page Writing Workshops
Most of us want to write, and have stories we want to share, but we often can’t get past the blank page. If it’s not the unrealistic expectations we have for our own writing, then it’s the demands of everyday crowding out our time. And then there are always those discouraging voices in our heads demanding to know just who we think we are that other people care what we write.
The Blank Page Workshops are writing workshops designed to help us just get started. Each week we start with a blank page and a writing prompt and spend at least an hour pouring out our first drafts. Then we spend the rest of the week giving each other initial feedback.
The Blank Page Writing Workshops are a place to write, and a place where we are always free to evolve beyond the last draft we have just produced.
The Next Blank Page Writing Workshop is scheduled to begin Nov. 12th, 2010. The cost is $75. Topics covered: The Body of Memory, Writing the Family, Writing the Physical World, Gathering the Threads of History, Writing the Arts, Writing the Larger World. Click on the link above to sign up.
What is the Blank Page Writing Workshop?
The Blank Page Writing Workshops are six week-long generative writing workshops, hosted on-line. The goal of the Blank Page Workshop is to help you generate new material in whatever genre you write. We begin each week by responding to a posted writing prompt for at least an hour. Then we post our rough drafts to the group for feedback. We spend the rest of the week receiving initial feedback and giving initial feedback to our fellow group members.
The beauty of these workshops is that they are on-line and so not constricted by time or location. You can join them at anytime during the day from the comfort of your own home in your own pajamas if you wish!
During the six weeks you will:
- Respond to six different writing prompts
- Receive initial feedback on your pieces
- Give initial feedback on other pieces
- Connect with a community of writers with which to discuss writing and life
- Learn six writing tips in the form of lecturettes for your creative process
- Read new and innovative writers published in your genre
By the end of the six weeks you will have:
- Six preliminary drafts with initial feedback
- A new community of writers to stay in touch with
- An opportunity to read your work locally
- An opportunity to submit your work to an online publication.