Good girls can’t write (or draw or dance or sing)

Spirited women can!

Come harness your Good Girl into productive creative servitude, and free the high-spirited woman within you to create. The act of creativity really is a spiritual pursuit, which can be learned. We’ll stalk our good girls, create a report card to harness our good girls in service of our creativity. We will identify our unique creative DNA—how each of us most successfully approaches the creative process. We’ll strengthen the links to our muse, and learn how to seduce our muse—and what to do until they arrive. And we’ll leave with tools and support to help us get that novel written, that aria composed, that dance choreographed. We’ll get our creative artists up off their casting couches and out on center stage, performing and producing!

Memoir and the New Media

We examine memoir as a literary genre, and also explore using digital recording and voice-to-print software to both “write” and "publish" memoir—producing both the oral and the written manuscripts. The class, workshops several “chapters.” We determine our optimal approach to memoir, and the technology that supports each person's own natural creative approach most effectively--and their end goal of distribution and publication. Research is presented about current digital media (scanners to capture slides, negatives, and photographs)—which can augment the memoir. Lecture and workshop.