📝 Creative Writing - Fall '25 Women's Empowerment Cohort Series

​Whether you’re a dream journaler, a meticulous planner, a chronic notetaker, or a full-blown, daily writer, I want to take you through some strategies and exercises I use to tell stories. We’re talking all kinds: the ones about your best friend, your parent, and about that thing that happened to you that one time. Or maybe it’s a story that’s in you: an idea or a thought you had while walking through the airport watching a mom corral her children (an actual example), or maybe it’s about dragons! Or a world much like our own, but comfortably adjacent that doesn’t yet exist, but might if you could only bring it to life. 

​Without some guiding principles, the telling of stories can be a tough road. Where do I start? How can I keep going even when I’m fed up? What if I’m not good enough? These are all questions I have asked myself over the last decade while walking the writer's road. Fighting the urge to quit and give in to the self-depricating voice is a temptation we all must fight (including writers who do this for a living–I have this straight from the source!). You can learn to ignore it – or, at the very least, drown it out in the magic of allowing your fingers to do the talking. 

​Do you have a story you’d like to tell, but wish it had more meat on its bones? Do you feel swept up by the everyday wonders of life (luck, dreams, struggles) and feel that something in there needs to come out? Please attend and let me help you find the freedom to tell it. 

​Please bring:

• ​Your preferred word-processing tech: A notepad and pen, a laptop, a tablet, etc.

• ​(Optional) a short story you tell all the time. DO NOT write this down ahead of time – it should be something you know by heart – like: you know where to pause for laughter. Don’t rehearse or pre-write. Just have it in you. 

​Please note:

• ​There will be several longer (think 30 minutes) periods where you will be asked to write as part of this event. 

• ​Sharing is encouraged, but not required.