Patricia LaDouceur – Humor is the New Black!

Giulietta encouraged us to give humor a try “even if you don’t think you are funny.” I wasn’t sure I was up to humor writing, but she made it easy to get started. The atmosphere was welcoming, and her comments were very helpful. Now at end of the four week class, I have four humorous pieces I’m happy with, and I have a much better understanding of what makes writing funny. I highly recommend this class.

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Michelle Ashley – Writing with Tarot

This was a really wonderful course for spurring creativity. Using tarot cards as inspiration led us through the process in such a unique way, it changed my vision of how a story develops and how a character interacts with herself and her world.

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Sylvia Foley – Creating the Visual Journal

I fell in love with this course! The material was beautifully organized and presented, offering just enough background and lots of prompts, sparks, and ideas. Lissa is a kind, knowledgeable, and inspiring teacher. Our group quickly felt like a community, which I especially appreciated given the times. I felt encouraged to experiment—and I’ll keep going.

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Sophie Cayeux – Anatomy of a Premise Line

Jeff’s method, course and feedback is amazing. It tests the strength of any story structure and points to its weaknesses.  Feedback is individually tailored and detailed. Jeff invests a lot of time interacting with participants.

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Julie Gibbs – Writing the Short Story

Rosemary is a wealth of knowledge and experience, and gives generous, positive feedback that is also direct and useful. I wanted to grow my skills and I felt like I did. I was so happy that I started another course the very next week!

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Pip Fowler – Creating the Visual Journal

Lissa was superb. She took the time to give detailed feedback and her ideas were inspiring. The way she presented the assignments, using her own ideas and imagination showed she really walks the talk and she obviously loves teaching and giving feedback to the students.

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Mona Voelkel – Creating the Visual Journal

Lissa Jensen’s “Creating the Visual Journal” gave me well-organized weekly content and technique tips that helped me go from someone who didn’t draw at all to someone who can’t wait to wake up in the morning and create with my visual journal. Lissa is a gifted artist but also a talented teacher.

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