How to Fall In Love (Or Back In Love) With Your Writing

I was thrilled to learn that my new writing class, “How to Fall In Love (Or Back In Love) With Your Writing” SOLD OUT at StoryStudio!

I think this speaks volumes to the ways in which we are all looking for joy, adventure, and devotion in our relationship to writing and our creative work.

We had a great second day of class yesterday where students wrote story scenes, essays, and poems through making color-palettes around memory, character, place, and culture (loosely inspired by work of artist Amanda Williams). Later they created a improvisational collage using cut-up magazines and found poetry to create a story or poem. We wrapped up the class with a short talk and exercise on how to ask better questions of our work. This inquiry process helps us find larger patterns of meaning, helping us generate more material when we feel stuck.

It’s a delight to meet with these writers each Tuesday!

If you are interested in me teaching this workshop to your writing group or privately, please contact me. Below is the full description of the class.

“Fall In Love (Or Back In Love) With Your Writing”

The opera singer Luciano Pavarotti said of his ability, “People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion.” While the rigors of discipline are needed to succeed at any art, Pavarotti’s statement also leads us to see that loving our work is a core ingredient to creation. Writing with the tools of visual art, poetry, prose, music, collage, and other hybrid forms, we’ll rediscover devotion to our work.

This four-week class is for people who would like to start a new project but don’t know where to begin, or for people who feel stuck in the middle of a long-term writing project and need to renew their sense of inspiration. Poets, essayists, and fiction writers will all find something in this class.

Readings will include: Poetry by Nikki Finney, Ada Limón, Federico Garcia-Lorca, Patricia Lockwood, Morgan Parker, Wendell Berry, and others. Fiction and prose excerpts by Clarice Lispector, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Marquez, Jhumpa Lahiri, Zadie Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, and others.

Writers reading and discussing their work.