Lifestyle and Wellness Archives

Experiments in Genre: Finding Creative Inspiration by Messing Up the Rules

May 6, 2020 by Fred Meyer

Can you translate the movement of a dance into a poem? What happens when you write a story in the form of a multiple-choice quiz? Learn to take your work in rich and unexpected new directions by subverting and blending genre conventions.

Embodied Writing: Improve Your Writing with Full-Body Creativity

January 15, 2020 by Fred Meyer

Have a grand time with specific physical exercises that honor your health, generate imaginative ideas, explore deeply and make your creative writing entertaining.

Writing Fiction: A Seminar for Young Writers

January 8, 2020 by Fred Meyer

For young writers (ages 10-15) who want to learn more about creating their own stories: Four video seminars and direct one-to-one coaching with Sarah Aronson!

Finish Your Manuscript: Next-Level Picture Book Mentorship

November 13, 2019 by Fred Meyer

During this six week program, you will work closely one-on-one with Kelly to finalize, refine, and polish your picture book into a manuscript ready to submit for publication or representation.

Simple Winter Sanity-Saving Writing Circles

December 4, 2019 by Fred Meyer

Have fun and let air out of your high-pressure holiday days by writing whatever bubbles up. Write, vent, laugh, and sail through December with four weeks of Zoom writing circles.

Starting to Write

January 1, 2020 by Fred Meyer

For those who want to kick start their writing into high gear.

Write from the Untamed Mind

February 12, 2020 by Fred Meyer

Join Susan in two writing circles each week: intimate spaces for writers to free-write together, saying yes to whatever shows up, followed by group read-arounds. These writing sessions are spontaneous, intimate, freeing, and transformative.

Block Buster: Turbocharge Your Creativity with Breakneck Writing

March 18, 2020 by Fred Meyer

Banish writer’s block, unearth fresh ideas, and sharpen your storytelling ability with the practice of fast, timed writing.

Writing for Happiness, Healing, and Health

January 1, 2020 by Fred Meyer

Expressive writing can be a powerful elixir for what ails you. Learn and practice tools for writing expressively, and come away with a better understanding of how writing can lead you toward wellness. With Susan Vespoli.

The Wandering Heart: Tales of Connection

April 24, 2019 by Fred Meyer

Wander through the rooms of your own life to discover stories of deep connection, reconnection or loss of connection and fashion your findings into stories suitable for blog posts, essays, short memoirs, short plays, scenes in screenplays, or chapters of novels.