About this 6-week workshop:
One of the most valuable tools you can develop as a writer is the habit of keeping a writer’s notebook. Unlike a diary, which is focused inward, a writer’s notebook is like a literary sketchbook, a place to collect “compost material” for stories: snippets of overheard dialogue; word-portraits of interesting characters; tone-poems on landscapes; story ideas and observations. In an era when everybody seems to be staring at their phones, a notebook forces you to look up and take in your surroundings at “handwriting speed.” A means of developing your writer’s eye and your ear for dialogue, keeping a notebook is a means of “gathering thread”—the real-life details that writers of every genre weave into stories. While there is no one “right” way to keep a writer’s notebook, this workshop will use as inspiration the notebooks and practices of great writers from Joan Didion to David Sedaris, and also draw upon the ancient tradition of Commonplace Books.
This workshop is taking place virtually, via Zoom, from 6:30 – 8:30 PM MDT on the following Wednesdays
October 7th
October 14th
October 21st
October 28th
November 4th
November 11th