November 2025 Workshop Dates/Times
Tuesdays & Thursdays, November 4-November 25 from 12:00-2:00pm EST
No class Thursday, November 27
Online
Purchase a Three Month Membership for $50 off (October-December)
November Month Membership | $150
Includes: twice-weekly lunchtime sessions, curated prompts, private member space, monthly reading, and access to a growing prompt archive.
Registration is through the Inward & Artward School of Creativity, a sister project to Story Parlor.
Your twice-weekly writing membership designed to keep you accountable, consistent, and producing fresh pages. Led by author Jacqui Castle, The Write Routine gives you structured writing sessions, inspiring prompts, and a supportive community so you can finally make steady progress on your projects.
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STRUCTURED WRITING SESSIONS: The Write Routine meets twice a week, giving you consistent, dedicated time to focus on your craft. Each class features timed writing sprints — a chance to turn off distractions, dive into your work, and get real words on the page. After each sprint, we regroup briefly to check in, reflect, and reset before the next round.
PROMPTS TO SPARK NEW PAGES: Every session, author and creative writing instructor Jacqui Castle (yours truly) provides fresh, optional prompts designed to help you generate new writing. These may include images, words, emotions, sensory inputs, or other creative sparks. You’re always welcome to use the prompts or simply keep moving forward on your own projects—the goal is forward momentum, not perfection.
A SUPPORTIVE MEMBER COMMUNITY: The Write Routine is not a critique-heavy workshop. Instead, it’s a space to produce fresh pages and build accountability. Between sessions, members can share progress and encouragement in a private online space curated by Jacqui. It’s a community built for writers who want consistency, not isolation.
MONTHLY READINGS! At the end of each month, members are invited to participate in a celebratory reading. This is an opportunity to share new work, mark your progress, and cheer on fellow writers in a supportive, low-pressure environment.
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SESSION FLOW
Welcome + optional discussion
Sprint #1 (20 minutes) → group check in!
Sprint #2 (20 minutes) → group check in!
Sprint #3 (20 minutes) → group check in
Sprint #4 (20 minutes) → closing reflections
You leave each class with new pages, accountability, and momentum to keep going.
MEMBERSHIPS
Month-to-month membership (no long-term contract)
Priority renewal for current members (limited to 8 seats)
Commit to a 3-Month Membership: $400 for 3 months (save $50).
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Groups are facilitated by author and creative writing instructor, Jacqui Castle. Jacqui is the author of The Seclusion and The Chasm and has taught creative writing for five years for various writing organizations, including UNCA's Great Smokies Writing Program, Redbud Writing Project, and Story Parlor. She is passionate about creating environments where writers can support and inspire each other to bring their ideas to fruition.
Facilitated by Jacqui Castle
The Inward & Artward School of Creativity—a sister project to Story Parlor—launched in the fall of 2025 with the intention of expanding the workshops and classes offered to a broader, virtual community.
The school takes its name from a guiding philosophy: that one must go inward in order to go “artward.” Creativity, in this framework, begins with reflection, personal narrative, and an honest reckoning with the stories we carry—about ourselves, about others, and about the world. I&A helps participants explore those stories, untangle limiting beliefs, and cultivate sustainable practices that foster creative growth. The aim is not to teach a singular technique or discipline, but to provide tools and frameworks that allow individuals to discover their own pathways to expression.
Programming at I&A spans a range of offerings, from short-term workshops to extended creative facilitator trainings. These trainings are particularly impactful, equipping artists, educators, and community leaders with the skills to guide others in creative exploration. Through this work, the school cultivates a new generation of creative leaders committed to fostering inclusive, meaningful, and transformative arts experiences.
Together, Story Parlor and the I&A School of Creativity form a dynamic ecosystem of creativity aimed at dismantling the barriers and silencing that so often accompany early creative experiences, and to invite participants to reclaim creativity as an essential part of how they live. They affirm that creativity is not the province of a chosen few, but the birthright of all—a force capable of bridging divides, deepening empathy, and helping us see ourselves and one another more fully.