Finding Our Voices, Telling Our Stories: Part I

Within you there dwells an innate sense of storytelling and a unique voice with which to tell your stories. In this course you will explore writing techniques to help you locate and refine the "natural music" of your own voice. Through writing exercises and heavy journaling you will learn how to unearth the stories that want to be told. We will cover the role of conflict in creating stories, setting, description, revision, proofreading, and how to sustain the writing process. Expect to fill pages and pages in your writer's notebook with story seedlings, character sketches, monologues and dialogues, and the frames and foundations for your own personal narrative.