Winter 8-Week Series: Memoir Writing, Creative Process & Storytelling:

Winter 8-Week Series: Memoir Writing, Creative Process & Storytelling:

$545.00

This memoir writing workshop and community will help capture, organize, and distill the shimmering details of your prose and story while enhancing your craft, creative process, and confidence as a writer.

  • Sunday, December 14, 4-6 PM EST
  • Thursday, December 18, 7-9 PM EST
  • Sunday, January 4, 4-6 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 8, 7-9 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 15, 7-9 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 22, 7-9 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 29, 7-9 PM EST
  • Sunday, February 1, 4-6 PM EST

“The course is an inspiring, safe environment for exploring your writing, and receiving constructive feedback, and a map for better storytelling.” – CB

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Description

Do you want to explore writing a personal story, memoir, or micro-memoir?

Do you lack a structure to get writing?

This creative, memoir writing workshop and community will help you write, organize, and distill the shimmering details of your story while enhancing your craft toolbox, creative process, and confidence as a writer.

The biggest challenge with writing is developing your creative process. Being in this class will help you navigate and demystify the process.

How do we craft a story? Where to begin? Where to end?

If you want to live up to something deep inside that says “Write!” you must.

You will gain:

  • writing & storytelling tools
  • ways to access themes that matter most to you
  • editorial, and creative development support
  • practices to build your creative process
  • 3 or 4 new pieces you love

We will study examples of personal essays, micro-memoirs, memoirs, and the essentials of storytelling.

What participants appreciate most:

  • 1:1 writing coaching & feedback
  • constructive editorial and creative feedback in class on 1-4 pages of work
  • the warmth and encouragement of the community
  • readings
  • playback recordings
  • weekly Q&A
  • option for a 50-minute one-on-one at a 10% discount*
  • free weekly Creative Space virtual writing room

Session Dates

Two-hour sessions are held via Zoom on either Sunday or Thursday evenings, live on Zoom. Recordings available.

  • Sunday, December 14, 4-6 PM EST
  • Thursday, December 18, 7-9 PM EST
  • Sunday, January 4, 4-6 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 8, 7-9 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 15, 7-9 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 22, 7-9 PM EST
  • Thursday, January 29, 7-9 PM EST
  • Sunday, February 1, 4-6 PM EST

Rate:

$545. PayPal, credit card (includes a 3% cc fee), or Venmo
$535. Personal check.
Payment plan available.

The 8-week course is based on 3 foundational teachings:
– the craft of writing & storytelling
– the practice of writing & reading
– the creative process
Each class meeting has 6 parts:
– craft theme (example: scenes vs summary)
– warm up sensory writing from the body (example: What did you see, smell, taste, touch or hear today that you want to remember?)
– reading of published memoirists and poets
– writing prompt
– optional reading out loud & nurturing feedback
– gratitude for what you are gaining
During the workshop you have the option to submit 1-4 pages to Jennifer for editorial and creative development notes.
You also have the option of sharing those pages with the class to receive supportive feedback for potential revision.
Before the couse starts, Jennifer asks students to articulate in an email their top 3 struggles as a writer. She designs the course to address and begin to solve those struggles mindfully in the writing process.

Testimonials:

“Jennifer’s approach to writing offers is a brilliant recipe of educating, mentoring, guiding, and collaboration. She meets each writer where they are with intentional guidance to help them improve and expand their craft. I have grown as much from listening to others’ work and feedback as I have from working on my own projects and pieces. Jennifer creates the environment to make this possible. I leave each class with so much more to consider, practice, and experiment with than expected.” – KB
“Jennifer provides a space of freedom and constructive support. The other writers are generous with their stories and feedback. Jennifer has a way of drawing out creativity from writers who didn’t believe they had it. She makes me a better writer every week.” – GG

“It’s a remarkable experience to be in Jennifer Schelter’s Memoir class. She guides the class in craft and creates a nurturing, collaborative environment for even the most reticent writer. Each person’s unique writing voice is encouraged. New members quickly feel the support and reinforcement from the group. This creates a safe petri dish to explore one’s most vulnerable and original work, unafraid of negative criticism. When freed from judgment, one can hear excellent possibilities for growing the writing for the reader’s greater engagement or understanding. The suggestions and observations are offered not as judgments but as positive options to enrich the story, the memory, or to clarify the thought. Class is positive and enlightening. We begin by practicing writing about what we see, hear, feel,  and smell. I found this extraordinarily revealing. The process opened up all kinds of writing and got me out of my head and into real, precise sensory observation. Then we have a prompt. It might be on a theme, or sentence, or some area of craft, and off we go, writing. Later, Jennifer asks who wants to read. I have been incredibly inspired by my fellow members and encouraged to continue my crafting and storytelling skills. I’m learning to find my own writing process! I am so grateful to Jennifer for opening up the possibility of my writing and helping me hone my creative process. Her approach is helping me reach my best level as a writer.” – PR

Students currently enrolled in the memoir course receive 10% off:

  • 50-minute, one-on-one writing coaching sessions (during the course)
  • creative development & editorial readings (1-12 pages)
  • story structure work
  • single page readings

Policy: No refunds after attending two classes. If, after one class, a participant drops the course, they will receive full credit (minus $90 service fee).

Jennifer Schelter reserves the right to overbook the class (maximum of 12 students) to account for potential cancellations.

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