MEGAN STIELSTRA: BUILDING A REWRITING PRACTICE, August 24

BUILDING A REWRITING PRACTICE
Instructor: Megan Stielstra
Date: Sunday, August 24, 2-4 ET on Zoom
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Cost: $60. Open to writers of: All genres

We write what is urgent to us; we rewrite to make it urgent for others. This lightning-bolt session examines rewriting as an invitation to invite other people—readers—into your writing practice and, in many ways, your own head and heart. What will they need to understand what you’re trying to share? What will they need to feel what you felt, see what you saw? Pulling from both literary and oral storytelling traditions, we’ll engage in activities asking us to consider the different stages of the rewriting process—are you diving back into the work to find its deeper meaning, or preparing it to share with others, i.e. submission and publication?
We all have hard drives and handwritten notebooks full of stories. We wrote them for a reason—let’s find it. Let’s share it. Let’s get at your stories.