Sunday evenings from 6:00-8:30pm at Story Parlor
9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20
Early Bird pricing through August 15
Regular price effective August 16
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience. We recommend signing up EARLY!
Refund and health policies can be found here.
What do you do when you find you're facing an insurmountable pile of unfinished creative work? An entire digital archive of ‘maybes?’
To use an Appalachian metaphor, you pan your dirt for gemstones.
This workshop explores what it means to run creative writing through an objective sieve. It provides a framework for tackling the current pile of unfinished work, as well as addressing the indefinite ‘maybes’ of tomorrow.
Together, we’ll sift our mounds of incomplete material, develop our self-editing skills, readjust our critical lenses, and polish, refine, and complete our precious pieces.
Among peers and in the safety of a validating creative space, writers can anticipate the delight of creative collaboration, the usefulness of constructive feedback, and the thrill of showcasing the rarity and purity of their finest gemstones.
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This class is for you if:
You’re the type to collect things like: untitled Word Docs; stream-of-consciousness journal entries; abstract voice memos; poetic notes on the Notes App; etcetera.
You have a piece of writing that you want to complete (i.e. a short story you started in college; a dream you’ve always intended to turn into a poem; a dialogue scene that you can’t seem to “get right,” etc.).
You have some experience and comfort with the process of creative writing.
You’re feeling open, determined, and inspired to take a look at your creative work from different perspectives.
You’re craving the accountability, connection, and collective energy of a creative group of people.
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Week 1: Mine & Stratify - Source & Agitate Your Creative Dirt
Week 2: Pan - Separate Dirt From Gemstones
Week 3: Evaluate - Identify Your Gemstones
Week 4: Refine - Purify Your Gemstones (Introduction to Workshop)
Week 5: Polish - Finish Your Gemstones (Workshop Session)
Week 6: Display - Reveal Your Gemstones - (Writer’s Showcase)
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Margot is an editor, writing coach, and facilitator living in Asheville. As a creative writer, she maintains a respect for the process, an appreciation for flawless phrases, and a deep love of manic creative flow. After obtaining degrees in Creative Writing and Sociology from the University of Arizona, Margot began a career in 2009 as an English and Creative Writing teacher. In the closeness of her small creative writing and independent study courses, she discovered the fundamental task of teaching: to give rise and support to a student’s inner voice. In 2014, Margot left the classroom to pursue freelance work as an editor and writing coach. Since then, Margot has acquired a wide range of clients including students, novelists, and business professionals. Her aim with all her clients is to help people say what they need to say in the manner and moment they need to say it.
If you are interested in learning more about Margot and her work, feel free to visit her website at: www.margothiller.com