PREPARING TO HELP ANOTHER GROUP SAY WHAT THEY WANT TO SAY

Next week, I embark on a 6-session Beginning Creative Writing workshop series with the Midwest Writing Center. This morning, as I prepared my presentation, I wondered about the people who would courageously embark on the writing journey with me. We have sent information and offered discounts to senior centers and retirement community residents, so I hope there will be some grandparents who will be able to pass on their legacies. But, will they do it through fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction? I'm anxious to find out.

The goal of the first session on March 12th is just to encourage them and get them writing. We'll talk about getting into a writing routine and making time to write, even making writing appointments with ourselves. I plan a listing exercise so when they do sit down to write, they will never be at a loss for what to write about. We'll end by talking about free writing, doing a timed free write of our own so they can walk away, already, with words in print.

After that will depend on the group dynamics and what they want to write about. Whatever it ends up being, my goal is, at the end of the series when it wraps up in May, they will have at least started to say what they want to say, whatever that may be.

Happy Writing!
-the Wordsy Woman