Writing Workshop with Creative Resident Ella Jacobson

Thirteen Ways of Beginning: A generative writing workshop with Creative Resident Ella Jacobson
This workshop is for writers of any genre who want to generate new material, experiment with different writing styles, and integrate different types of play into their process.

Using a variety of rapid-fire writing prompts, we’ll practice generating beginnings. We’ll look to poems, music, and letters for inspiration. This practice will be useful to anyone who is on the hunt for new writing projects, who wants to explore different genres, or who is curious about what might happen when they write with a different set of expectations in their head.

Then using prompts that, weather permitting, will take us outside, we’ll write longer pieces that students will have the option to share with the group. We will also save time to discuss how people find their topic and tone for a piece of writing, what people can do when they feel stuck, and how to build a writing process around writing prompts.

This workshop is open to all writers of any genre and experience. Writers who are currently working on a project are welcome to apply these prompts to their current project.

Please wear clothes that will allow you to be comfortable outside. Unless there is rain, participants will have the option to spend part of the workshop outside. Please bring: a notebook or paper and a writing utensil.