Mentor: Jan Calloway-Baxter
Beginning a Writing Practice; embark on the creative journey of writing and journaling with guidance, encouragement, and support.
Beginning a Writing Practice; embark on the creative journey of writing and journaling with guidance, encouragement, and support.
Creative writing. What does that mean to you? Writing poems, short stories, novels? How-to books, manuals, biographies? Essays, newspaper articles, reports? All writing is creative. The act of putting your words on paper (or on a screen) is a creative, right-brained activity. (Editing is a left-brained activity, although even when editing one applies creative principles.)
Learning to get in touch with your womanly belly, to free yourself from judgment and negative critique, to use your own goddess-given voice, can help you to write more creatively no matter what type of writing you are engaged in. And that’s what we are here to do: learn to bring more creativity to our writing.
Four lessons make up this course:
Prepare—Discussions and definitions. Preparing your ritual and gathering your tools.
Begin—Freewriting and journaling. The central technique of the course.
Metaphor and Symbol—The power of the word.
Naming—The power of the name.
For each lesson you have reading material and reference to more resource material in the Resources page. Each Assignment can be submitted directly and privately to me, using the Submission button in the Assignment. I will respond to every submission sent to me. Any assignment can also be submitted publicly, so that others enrolled in this class can read and respond, using the Forum.
I encourage you to post your writing in the Forum as well as send it to me, but will not insist if you prefer to write only for yourself. You can also post any general questions in the appropriate Forum.
Course Goals:
1-Learn about creative tools that will enhance your writing practice.
2-Explore the use of metaphor and symbol.
3-Discover the power of naming.
4-Increase the creative imagination.
5-Feel free to write and create in a supportive atmosphere with mentor and colleagues.
ABOUT THE MENTOR: Jan lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her Green Man/Soul Mate husband and their children, dogs, cats, and city chickens. She loves growing herbs, making medicine, cooking and eating good food, writing, making Goddess Dolls, doing almost anything with fabric and fiber, reading everything that comes her way, traveling, sleeping, listening to music, walking in the woods and sitting by the fireplace.
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