Back to All Events

The Writer’s Notebook

The-Writers-Journal-Image-1.jpg

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

Tuition: $215 or $180 for Cabin members w/code

 

This workshop is led by:

 
 
Previous
Previous
October 6

Free Drop-In Writing Workshop

Next
Next
October 9

NOW ONLINE! Readings & Conversations with Patti Smith