Personal Writing Courses
for Everyone
Writing is therapeutic, historic, artistic, and individualistic.
It is available to literate people everywhere.
But too many of us have been shamed for not doing it well enough. (Every writer I know has that voice inside their head that says this sucks, this sucks, this sucks.) Which is a shame, because most of us have a lot to say. We all have stories that will live or die depending on what we do with them, and whether we choose to share them.
This is your invitation to tell your story. Your invitation to take your time. To think about it. To tell what needs telling. You don’t have to be a capital-W writer in order to write. All you need is a pen and paper (or a computer) and some time.
I have developed a series of courses and workshops to help you get started. (And if you’ve started and you’re stuck? These are for you too.)
Writing the Personal Story
Whether you want to write about a single moment, or your entire life story, it can be hard to get started. Give yourself the time and permission to write your story, and to tell it the way your want to tell it. These courses will meet you where you are, and help you to get where you’re going.
Facing
the Blank Page
Do you have a journal with perfectly blank, unmarked pages? Do you sit in front of a blank screen watching the cursor count the time? Do you want to write, but you just don’t know how to get started? This class offers tactics for getting out of your own way, breaking bad habits and actually putting pen to paper.
Therapeutic Writing for Forgiveness
If you’ve experienced emotional pain – and who hasn’t? – this is your invitation to get the pain out of your body and onto the page. Then, who knows? Maybe you’ll share it with your therapist, your parents, or an international audience of readers. When we free ourselves from our pain, we also free ourselves from limitation.
Reading my grandmother’s story changed my life
She wrote it in the 1990s, but I read it 30 years later. It was 74 pages long. The moment I finished it, I wanted 74 pages from my Aunt Mary Ellen, who died in 2021. I wanted 74 pages from my Aunt Bobbie, who died in 2022. I can’t turn back the clock. But I can help other people tell their stories.
