Writing for Procrastinators
Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Writing for Performance
Online
Online Open to all levels
Open to all levels 8 Sessions
8 Sessions If you consider yourself a writer, proclaim to love writing, but don't "let" yourself write, this course is for you. Weekly writing and reading (Brenda Ueland, Liz Gilbert, Melissa Febos, etc.) and instructor feedback will help us explore the topic and how to break those patterns. By the end of the course, students will have established a practice and navigated the murky waters of their own procrastination. In addition, students will leave with a draft of a short project previously avoided.
ADDITIONAL CLASS DETAILS:
- Feedback in class: Instructor feedback given.
- Work outside of class: 2-3 hours of writing or reading outside of class.
- This class includes:
- Generative Writing: students create new work during class or from assignments.
- Discussion: teachers and students explore why we procrastinate, the costs of procrastination, the benefits of it, etc.
REGISTRATION DATES:
- December 4: Scholarship Donation Day
- December 5: Member registration opens at 10:30 am PT
- December 12: General registration opens at 10:30 am PT
- December 18: Last day of Early Bird pricing
Beth Slattery
Beth Slattery moved to Seattle after eighteen years of teaching creative writing and literature at Indiana University East. Since her relocation, she has been writing and editing. Beth is currently working on a collection of personal essays about her mid-life marriage to a Zimbabwean, a move from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest, and a reluctant acceptance of the call to adventure. Her most recent publications appear in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies and Southern Women’s Review. Beth’s recent editing work includes being a “beta” reader for an author with a multi-book publishing contract, content and copy editing of a personal essay collection, and providing comprehensive editing services on an edited academic volume that was later published by Oxford University Press. She has an M.A. in fiction writing from Miami University and an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine—Stonecoast.
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