Workshop It to Start Writing!

Taking a workshop is a great way to try your hand at memoir writing, further any writing you’ve started, or just learn something and have fun.

Why? It provides what we all need most when tackling a project: support and accountability.

A workshop provides structure. Your writing is facilitated and timed. You can share it (and oftentimes get feedback) in a safe environment. You can leave with something started, so that when you return to your own desk and solitude at home, you no longer have a blank sheet of paper!

It’s only one hour or a few out of your life. And it’s focused time, time to reminisce and write.

In a workshop, you will likely hear methods for how to get your writing done on your own and something hopefully will click for you. Even it’s simple, we may not think of it ourselves. We have other things on our minds, and this is a new pursuit.

There’s nothing like a good coach, mentor or teacher! We all need them.

Workshops can give us permission to write our stories, to spend time on it in our busy lives, to make mistakes so we can finish first drafts. It can give us confidence. If you’re looking for them, it might even provide you with writing partners.

If you try one and it’s not quite right for you, maybe try another.

As a starter, please join me for a Stories to Last one-hour introductory workshop. I will be facilitating several in July and August 2022 FREE to participants, sponsored by the San Mateo Library System. I hope to be able to offer similar workshops in Marin, Alameda and Santa Clara County in the future. Ask your local librarian to contact me!

See EVENTS for more information.