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Creative WritingGreat Beginnings . . . or False Starts?W12-C01
Creative Writing 101W12-C02
Creative Writing 201W12-C03
Life Journeys: Tourists, Pilgrims, Questers and Dawdlers Welcome!W12-C04
Unfolding Pleasure: The Sentence ExperienceW12-C05
Great Love and Great Suffering: Writing Your Spiritual AutobiographyW12-C06
Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your LifeW12-C07
More Time to WriteW12-C20 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. A half hour of each session will be set aside to write. (And you can stay after class and keep writing.)
Writing Aerobics
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The Culinary Reading and Discussion GroupHosted by Sandy Bosworth & Kathy Pottetti Yoga Open HouseSaturday, May 19th, Noon-4 p.m. History Reading GroupHosted by Steve Huff First Fridays / Wide Open MicHosted by Norm Davis Afternoon TeaWed., June 6, 4:30 - 6 p.m. Open Mike Comedy NightHosted by Anna Hall Click here for more June Events...
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Think you’ve written a best seller? Maybe so, but will an agent or editor get beyond the first page of your manuscript? How about the first sentence? This course examines 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 share with the class.)
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. This is the course for YOU. We’ll use introductory, in-class writing assignments to explore the genres of fiction and non-fiction. Each week will focus on a particular author and style -- including popular favorites like Burroughs, Sedaris, Munro, and King. Every student will get the opportunity to share their work for peer feedback -- but only when you’re ready! Snacks at every session.
So you’ve got some writing experience under your belt. This course advances the work done in Creative Writing 102 (not a pre-requisite!) and encourages you to work the craft of writing to determine what style and genre works best for you. Class time will be segmented: weekly prompts will be provided to inspire in-class writing; facilitated peer review of your work will refine your craft. Students require access to email to share their work with peers. Homework will include some weekly writing and reading. Snacks at every session. 
How far have your traveled in your life? Where did you begin? How did you end up here? Did you choose your journeys or did they happen to you? Is there a particular place that speaks to you soul? This memoir class will lead you on a journey to see your life with new eyes. You’ll explore leaving, returning, or staying put, and give expression to how these peregrinations have shaped you. Whether the journey was the first few steps you took alone, hitch-hiking around the world, or moving out of a bad marriage, something happens when you leave. Maybe you come back; maybe you don’t. In either case, you’re not the same.
“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?” Gertrude Stein asks. A pleasure to read and a pleasure to write. 
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 environment, 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, and heretics—all are welcome in this caravan.
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. 