Wellspring Writing Workshops

DETAILS & GUIDELINES FOR 8-WEEK CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

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• 5-9 people in workshop

• 8-week session online using Zoom

• We will meet for 2 & 1/2 hrs each session.

• I offer writing prompts.  You are free to use the prompt, or write wherever you're led.  We will not bring outside writing in.

• We will spend 1 - 20 min on each prompt.

• After we've finished writing, members will read their work aloud, unless they elect not to do so.

• I will ask for other members' comments on what they experienced as strong and successful in the writer's work, noticing the choices she/he has made.  I will guide members so that we stay focused on the writing rather than on the writer.

• All writing will be treated as fiction, unless the writer states that it is autobiographical; this keeps the focus on the writing rather than on the writer; it allows members to gain access to, and then express, thoughts and emotions that may be too powerful, painful, embarrassing or surprising to expose otherwise.

• Confidentiality is essential in this group; therefore we will not talk about writing that happens in the workshop outside of the workshop, or even outside of the time designated for responses.  In this way we keep each other safe.

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