Writing

Course

Spring & Summer 2020

Spring Registration starts 2/19 @ 8am

Creative Writing   ***Summer Creative Writing Class Registration starts 4/22 @ 8am***

What is your muse calling to you? Discover and explore your creative forces through writing. Develop ideas based on life experiences, imagination, research, or a combination. Use writing exercises and readings to add inspiration, develop skills, and open creativity valves. Learn and use a safe critique process in order to freely read your work and receive supportive feedback. Have fun WRITING!

In this writing class, encounter the flowering of English poetry, beginning with Shakespeare's sonnets and journeying into the 20^th century with the great innovators of Modernism. You will be given a poet's toolbox of tips and tricks from master poets in order to inspire your own new verses. No literary background necessary. Each class is self-contained and built around instruction, writing prompts, and time to write and share your work.

You’ve dreamed of putting your life down in words, but now you ask yourself: Is my life really that interesting? How do I even start? Remember! Your life story is unique, as vivid, gripping, and heart-warming as by any famous writer. Writing your story and sending it out into the world (or just to your grandchildren) makes meaning of your life, validates it, displays the passages you took and those you did not. Discover your inner voice and master the elements of the craft with step-by-step techniques. Whether you’re new to memoir writing or wanting to refine, complete, and publish your memoir, this class is for you. Prompts and group exercises will guide you through the transformative process of memoir writing.