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Creative WritingGreat Beginnings…or False Starts?W11-C02
Creative JournalingS11-C01
Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your LifeS11-C02
2000 Word ClubS11-C03
The purpose of the 2000 Word Club is to offer class members an opportunity to explore the various creative writing genre— fiction, memoir, creative essay, experimental forms, and even chapters of larger works—to find the form most amenable to their experience and imagination. The only requirement, manuscripts must be under 2000 words. Class members manuscripts are critiqued in a cordial and supportive environment, craft issues discussed, and suggestions made to make manuscripts more readable/marketable.
Advanced Memoir: Sculpting Your StoryS11-C04
Great Love and Great Suffering: Writing your Spiritual AutobiographyS11-C05
Stories for Seasoned CitizensS11-C06
Course Cancelled
Getting Started in Children’s Books, Part OneS11-C07
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Monthly Story SlamTues., May 15, 7-8:30 p.m. Lunch Break Book TalksHosted by Steve Huff Book Discussions at Valley ManorMay 16, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. The Culinary Reading and Discussion GroupHosted by Sandy Bosworth & Kathy Pottetti
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Think you’ve written a potential bestseller? Maybe so, but will an agent or editor get beyond the first page of your manuscript? How about the first sentence? This course examines the common mistakes writers make at the very beginning of their story, and points out errors to be avoided to stay out of the rejection pile. Students are encouraged to bring the opening page of their manuscript to class.
A wide open creative writing experience for self exploration and personal growth, this workshop is designed to get in touch with the core of who you are. It will help you define your emotions, dreams, and patterns and see them more clearly. We will use a variety of exercises that allow thoughts and feelings to emerge in a fun and safe environment. Creative journaling is an extremely useful tool for self discovery and a good way to find deeper meaning in your life. Come with an adventurous spirit. Open to all levels of writers. No experience with journaling is necessary.
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. 
The most useful 2000 words in the English language may be yours. In traditional societies, the elders held a revered place. They were the keepers of the stories, repositories of wisdom passed on to them from the past and derived from their hard-won lifelong experience. They held the key to who we are and how we ought to live.
This class is open to anyone who has taken a memoir class before. Although you will receive prompts to generate new writing, our focus will be on crafting your drafts. I liken the stages of the writing process to making pottery: your first draft is creating your clay. Next, we deepen and broaden your material--just what are you making out of this clay? What does the clay want to become? Now you can start to shape it: how do your structure a story or a memoir? Once you have your bowl or mug or vase, then you refine it and glaze it: you look at how your sentences work; you edit. Class feedback is always done with care and respect. Your writing can be at any of the above stages, and the feedback will be appropriate for that stage.
What experiences of great love and great suffering have led you to a place of surrender and opening to a deeper life? In a safe place,we will write about where we came from, the people and experiences that shaped us, as well as those that left us forever changed. Saints, sinners, heretics -- all are welcome in this caravan.
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.
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.