📌WORKSHOP | Kindling: How to Begin
Minda Honey, author or THE HEARTBREAK YEARS will teach this class September 8
Dates: September 8
Duration: 2 Hours 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Location: Online
Cost: $85
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Details
You know you have a story to tell, you just don't know how to tell it or even where to begin. And no matter how many pieces you've written, this feeling still crops up frequently — I feel your pain! In this workshop, I'll share tips and tricks that have kept me writing through life's many changes and challenges and can serve as story-starters to get you in your writing groove. We'll look at essay examples and discuss common techniques writers use for essay intros. And I'll guide you through what to do when the words just won't come so you can skip the frustration and find your flow.
What you will learn
You will learn practical, tangible steps to get going with your writing, such as how to:
STRUCTURE your first paragraphs for a compelling essay intro. Once you learn the rhythm of your writing, you can repeat it over and over again for each new essay (and, when necessary, revise it into something fresh so your work doesn't become redundant).
IDENTIFY the right entry point into your story. Instead of wasting time on weak first sentences that don't spark your creativity, figure out what you need to know about what you're writing to begin and keep going.
MOTIVATE yourself to put pen to paper. The muse blesses the loyal, so how can we become diligent patrons of our creativity? This is about getting real with yourself about your energetic and emotional bandwidth — and no, it doesn't mean having to writeeveryday.
Workshop takeaways
These easy-to-repeat steps will serve you outside this class and well into your writing journey. You will also continue to have access to the shared class document for future reference. And beyond what you learn in this class, you will develop the ability to figure out what you need specifically as a writer — not all tools are right for every toolkit.
All Literary Liberation classes take place online and are accessible to students anywhere in the world.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Minda Honey’s (she/her) essays on politics and relationships have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and Longreads.
Her work is featured in “Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger”, “A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South”, and “Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic.”
She is the editor of Black Joy at Reckon — the newsletter has nearly 60K subscribers. She was the director of the BFA in Creative Writing program at Spalding University, a relationship advice columnist for LEO Weekly in Louisville, Kentucky, and founder of the capsule project, TAUNT, an alt-indie publication for Louisville that elevated the voices of the unaccounted during the height of the pandemic and ended in late 2021.
Her debut memoir, THE HEARTBREAK YEARS (Little A, October 2023), is a hilarious and intimate portrait of a Black woman finding who she is and who she wants to be, one bad date at a time.
Registration Details: Seats in this class are limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. All purchases are final and nonrefundable. Prior to the start of your class you’ll receive an invitation to access the virtual classroom.
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