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Happy snowy day! Here's what my neighborhood looked like during our afternoon walk. What a beautiful treat. Doesn't the ice on the branches look like cherry blossoms?
Just giving you a quick heads-up email in case you're interested and
able to join in one of these two opportunities for writing camaraderie and support. Under Construction takes place on Tuesday evenings, and the Gift of Memoir class on Thursday mornings. Details here and below...
And for your snow day listening pleasure, here is a snow poem by Kate DiCamillo I just adore. (If you're a dog lover, you'll especially like it.) Read by, of all people, Jennifer Anniston. Enjoy! And if you'd rather hear
Garrison Keillor read it, here he is. And there's a bonus prompt for you below.
Love and light, Upcoming WordPlay
UNDER CONSTRUCTION:
TUESDAY EVENINGS
(Fulfilling Writing Dreams & Goals;
Creating New Writing; Revising & Polishing Your Writing)
This class is designed to fulfill your writing dreams and projects. You’ll set goals and support structures and watch your writing flow! You’ll also get feedback on your work (any genre) and learn revision tools and methods. Each week, writing prompts will generate material for new writing or further a piece in process, whatever your
preferred genre. Through examples of accomplished writers, you’ll learn techniques to aid you right where you are in the process.
WHERE: South Charlotte area. Details will be provided upon registration.
WHEN: Tuesday
evenings 7:00 to 9 p.m., starting in January, 2017.
January 10, 17 and 24
February 7 and 28
March 7, 21 and 28
April 4, 11 and 25
May 2 TO REGISTER: If you’re interested in attending, please email us at info@wordplaynow.com for more information.
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GIFT OF MEMOIR
(Preserving Family History/Writing for and about Your Family/The Art of Memoir) Our life stories are a precious legacy. Putting them in writing is a gift to all who know and love us—they can be treasured and enjoyed for generations to come. It is also a gift to ourselves. As best-selling author Rachel Naomi Remen says in her book Kitchen Table Wisdom, facts bring us to knowledge, but stories bring us to wisdom. If you are interested in
writing family and/or personal life stories—those significant tales of adventure, transition, love, loss, and triumph, as well as lovely everyday moments from times past or the present, come learn specific tools and techniques to retrieve and record them.
WHEN: Thursday mornings, 10:00 to noon, starting in January, 2017.
January 12 and 26
February 2 and 16
March 9 and 23
April 6 and 27
REGISTER: If you’re interested in attending, please email us at info@wordplaynow.com to be put on the waiting list.
More WordPlay opportunities here. WordPlay Now! Writing
Prompt This is WordPlay—so why not revel in the power and
potential of one good word after another? This week, it's "want."
PROMPT:
MAUREEN RYAN GRIFFIN, an award-winning poetry and nonfiction writer, is the author of Spinning Words into Gold, a Hands-On Guide to the Craft of Writing, a grief workbook entitled I Will Never Forget You, and three collections of poetry, Ten Thousand Cicadas Can't Be Wrong, This Scatter of Blossoms and When the Leaves Are in the Water. One of her long-held dreams came true in July of 2015 when Garrison Keillor read one of her poems on The Writer's Almanac. She believes, as author Julia Cameron says, "We are meant to midwife dreams for one another."
Maureen also believes that serious "word work" requires serious WordPlay, as play is how we humans best learn—and perform. What she loves best is witnessing all the other dreams that come true for her clients along the way. Language, when used with
intentionality and focus, is, after all, serious fuel for joy. Here's to yours! |
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