Writing With Others or At Your Own Pace
On-line classes are a fine way to learn and practice the craft of writing, in formats that suit you best.
We're reaching out in new ways, with both community-driven and self-paced class offerings we're calling
Salty City Writing Institute.
"Artful Quarantine in Creative Nonfiction,"
an eight-week course with weekly lessons focusing on craft, form, and exploring memory.
"Meg is a very thoughtful, involved and helpful instructor. I highly recommend her for any class she may offer."
"I loved loved loved all of it. Besides that all the lesson plans an prompts were fabulous, as a mom to a young kid, it was so nice to able to participate in the group because I could do it from home. It was the perfect quarantine medicine!"
"I had the privilege of participating in an online creative non-fiction class through Salty City Writing Institute. I highly recommend this if you are a writer. I thought my instructor Meg did a fabulous job of having interesting prompts and lessons and she also created a space where people felt safe to share. I loved all the feedback I got from the other workshop participants. Thank you for a great writing experience! I highly recommend this class."
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for future Salty City Writing Institute on-line offerings!
Current Online Courses Include:
We're reaching out in new ways, with both community-driven and self-paced class offerings we're calling
Salty City Writing Institute.
"Artful Quarantine in Creative Nonfiction,"
an eight-week course with weekly lessons focusing on craft, form, and exploring memory.
"Meg is a very thoughtful, involved and helpful instructor. I highly recommend her for any class she may offer."
"I loved loved loved all of it. Besides that all the lesson plans an prompts were fabulous, as a mom to a young kid, it was so nice to able to participate in the group because I could do it from home. It was the perfect quarantine medicine!"
"I had the privilege of participating in an online creative non-fiction class through Salty City Writing Institute. I highly recommend this if you are a writer. I thought my instructor Meg did a fabulous job of having interesting prompts and lessons and she also created a space where people felt safe to share. I loved all the feedback I got from the other workshop participants. Thank you for a great writing experience! I highly recommend this class."
Sign up for our newsletter on our HOME PAGE
for future Salty City Writing Institute on-line offerings!
Current Online Courses Include:
Making An A.R.S.E of Yourself (Revision Pt. 1)
Early draft writing is sometimes like a toddler, clumsy yet charming, sometimes hard to understand. It's too early to send them off to finishing school and polish them up, they're playful, they love new things, and they're often unruly. We need patience as we listen to understand what they're trying to tell us. This five week lesson series allows your toddler to grow. Consider each lesson a "play date" for you and your baby.
In these five weekly lessons, Adding, Rearranging, Subtracting, and Exchanging are meant to surprise you (because toddlers are often so clever!) and provide a framework to generate more material for the project recently born, or one having hibernated for a while. Those are often the hungriest creatures! These culminate in a methodology applied in lesson 5 to find clarity in what your story is about.
*Self-paced format: Focus all your energy on your own writing, work through the materials at your own pace (instructor consultation available for separate fee)
Open for Enrollment
Price: $79
Register HERE
Early draft writing is sometimes like a toddler, clumsy yet charming, sometimes hard to understand. It's too early to send them off to finishing school and polish them up, they're playful, they love new things, and they're often unruly. We need patience as we listen to understand what they're trying to tell us. This five week lesson series allows your toddler to grow. Consider each lesson a "play date" for you and your baby.
In these five weekly lessons, Adding, Rearranging, Subtracting, and Exchanging are meant to surprise you (because toddlers are often so clever!) and provide a framework to generate more material for the project recently born, or one having hibernated for a while. Those are often the hungriest creatures! These culminate in a methodology applied in lesson 5 to find clarity in what your story is about.
*Self-paced format: Focus all your energy on your own writing, work through the materials at your own pace (instructor consultation available for separate fee)
Open for Enrollment
Price: $79
Register HERE
"A" is for Adding - Week 1 |
"R" is for Rearranging - Week 2 |
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This week's lesson is intended to shake you out of your predetermined truth of what you think you are writing about. We'll explore the art of inquiry, and enter into our drafts with a strategy of curiosity. "Questions demand attempts at answers," often times from different parts of yourself. A definitive answer to the questions is not the goal, the attempts are what we're striving for.
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"I was crazy to see how fine writing was made: the shape, the armature." So says Leonora Smith in her essay, "Locate Mercy." This week we'll play with parts. What happens when this is moved from there to here? What opening does it reveal, what portal for us to enter through?
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"S" is for Subtraction - Week 3 |
"E" is for Exchange - Week 4 |
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Well, we're not really subtracting. At this stage nothing is tossed away. What we're toying with here is a vertical read, plucking out words or images that move us in some way and see what unfolds when we focus our attention on them for a while.
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"E" could also stand for "Egads, it's not all about me!" This lesson we head jump into another character in our story. We'll exchange our point of view to see if "walking a mile in another's shoes" allows for new perspectives and insights. Heavy on scene work, you'll get to really use your imaginative faculties on this one.
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What's It All About, Alfie? - Week 5
This week we step back, spread out our materials and see if we can identify what it is about. Utilizing a helpful algorithm from Marion Roach Smith's book The Memoir Project, you'll be asked to wrestle with that question. But don't fret. If you can't answer, or if you come up with multiple answers, there's strategies for that too.
