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Creative WritingTime to WriteF10-C01
Creative Writing 101F10-C02
Getting Started in Children’s Books—Part IF10-C03
Getting Started in Children’s Books—Part IIF10-C04
Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your Life
If you're interested in writing about your life but don't know where to start, this is the class for you. We'll discuss different forms of memoir and do writing exercises that will help you find the stories inside the flow of events in your life. Writing does more than put down what you already know; it helps you discover new meanings. We'll learn the basics of how to “show, not tell” so that your writing can come alive. You'll learn how to use dialog, description, action, inner thoughts and summary the way a fiction writer would to write compelling stories.
Writing for Health and WellbeingF10-C06
The 2000 Word ClubF10-C07
Discovering Your Truth, Living Your TruthF10-C08
Ecstatic WritingF10-C09
The Closet Writer’s WorkshopF10-C10
The price of admission to the workshop will include a copy of The Constant Art of Being a Writer, by N. M. Kelby.
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“How Do I Love Thee?” Romantic Love Poems Through the AgesTuesday, February 7, 7 p.m. Afternoon TeaWed., Feb. 8, 4:30 - 6 p.m. The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by Phil Ebersol Book Kick-off: Angels Flying Backwards, by Iris MillerThursday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. Valentine’s Day card-making workshop for families.Saturday February 11, 10 a.m. - noon Genesee Reading SeriesHosted by Wanda Schubmehl Click here for more February Events...
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| Writers & Books, Rochester's community literary center, inspires and instructs over 25,000 people each year through a wide array of offerings in nearly every literary genre. Believing that the written and spoken word are central to our lives and culture, Writers & Books celebrates, promotes and works to make them available to all. Writers & Books is located at 740 University Avenue, near Atlantic Avenue in the Neighborhood of the Arts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You know you want to be writing on a regular basis--for your sanity, for your soul, to record your life, observations and ideas, to understand your own mind, to get a desired project underway or completed, or to fulfill your dream or destiny as a writer--but something is getting in the way. Maybe you have never gotten started. Maybe you need to break through a writer's block. Every Wednesday we will gather and write, explore techniques for carving out time and silencing inner critics, and share our struggles and successes. We will read insights from artists and writers into the creative process. We will look at what motivates us, what we let get in our way, and what it takes to get a habit established. By giving each other acknowledgement and a push for each new week, we'll work on making writing a habit for life. The last half hour of each session will be set aside to write. (And you can stay after class and keep writing.)
So you've always wanted to write but never made the time. Or you're not sure how to start. Or you've got lots of things started, but nothing's good enough to share.
Interested in writing for children? This seminar will get you started. Published children’s author and illustrator Will Hubbell provides three hours of inspiration and information. The emphasis will be the unique challenges and opportunities of the field. The history and aesthetics of writing for children will also be covered. Handouts provided. Note: This class can be taken independently of Part II.
Have you written a children’s book? Are you considering writing one? Published children’s author and illustrator Will Hubbell provides three hours of essential information on getting published for aspiring children’s authors. Topics include the nut-and-bolts of submission, the publishing process, agents, contracts, and even taxes. Handouts provided. Note: This class can be taken independently of Part I.
Learn about the amazing research showing how writing boosts the immune system, reduces pain and insomnia, lowers blood pressure, and has so many other health benefits that, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, “similar outcome evidence for a new drug” would put it in “widespread use within a short time.” We’ll use prompts in storytelling, journaling and poetry to promote physical, emotional and mental health.
This class allows students to write and share short fiction and/or creative non-fiction with an enthusiastic audience. The focus will be to study the techniques of fiction and non-fiction side-by-side in order to help students write timely, high-impact, publishable narratives in 2000 words or less. The instructor will also focus on marketing your short pieces.
Most people follow paths that are dictated by their parents, teachers, bosses, employers, the society within which they live, etc. rather than from within. Studies have shown that people who have discovered who they are and what drives/energizes them are much happier and more successful than those who haven’t. As Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Yet many people never take the time to do just this. This course provides a process that will help you discover and live your deepest truths. Techniques include extensive journaling and guided imagery.
Tap into your inner knowing. Let words flow from that place which is beyond words. Become a conduit for the outpouring of the ineffable. Let the words write themselves from a place of expanded presence. Though silence, prayer, meditation, music and immersion in nature, we will tap into our hidden reserves of ecstatic joy with the intent to capture it in the written word. Be prepared for a day of profound beauty and joy. Bring a bag lunch.
An inspirational workshop about how to be a writer in the world with practical advice about writing fiction that sells––and what to really except once it does. This workshop includes ways to create the memorable characters that editors love and readers can’t get enough of. Participants are encouraged to bring writing samples and all their questions. On the previous evening, Friday, Sept. 18, Ms. Kelby will be reading from her new collection of stories, A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts.