Class Description
The skill of craft and the cultivation of a writing practice are a marriage. A writer cannot have one without the other. Writers push full steam ahead to learn craft, and often lose steam while writing. MFAs don't typically teach their students how to cultivate a lifelong, generative writing practice. "Just sit down & write" is the least sustainable piece of writing advice. Your daily rhythm, your inner voices, and your unique life situations are the vital threads that can be the motivation and path to writing, not your saboteurs.
This session is for those who can't seem to figure out how to break through, inconsistently going through stop and starts, or anyone with a project longing to be completed who just doesn't know how to start writing again. From the lens of a writer and editor, this session will encourage writers to go deeper and interrogate their relationship to their creative practice. Writing prompts & readings will lead to self-reflection and guidance, and help tap into that inner fire that can be utilized to identify why you're not writing right now—and how to begin.
Class Format
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!
Scholarship Information
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.