Six classes open to anyone who wants to write

with Marsha Rowe

Do you have a passion to write?
Are you finding it hard to make a start?
Are you already a writer, but want to polish your prose, sharpen your structure?
Do you want to use your own experience as the basis for fiction writing?
If you want to write about your life, whether for yourself or for others, these classes will give you the tools.

• Recollect your life in writing
• Use your experience as a basis for fiction writing
• Adapt techniques of style and structure
• Create dialogue
• Pace your prose
• Use language imaginatively
• Write clearly
• Shake out reality and bring drama to your own story

Lifewriting: what is it?

Exercises take you through the creative stages of writing from - and about - your life. You will be shown how to turn your experience into a story. Learn the techniques of crafting a scene, how to introduce dialogue, when to use description to best advantage. Write through the mirror of memory. Capture the fleeting, elusive reflections of the past, the weight of a life-changing event. Evoke the mood, convey the action. Life-writing opens the imagination. Good writing requires verisimilitude. Discover how to make your words come alive on the page.