Preserving our personal histories can be an exciting, cathartic, and daunting task, and one well worth tackling. In this six-week workshop we will explore choices made and gambles taken in our personal writing - not our lives - as we celebrate our unique stories and the characters we’ve encountered. Have you started a memoir? Great! Not yet? Still thinking about it? Great! All stages of progress and skill levels are welcome.
Prompts used in class and for optional HW (HomeWrite! - roughly 500 words) will generate new writing. Additionally, we will revisit some techniques that all but guarantee greater clarity and “instant style!” Discussions will focus on purpose, goals, forms, revision, and feedback. Please note that given the number of enrollees and time constraints, we may not hear from everyone who wishes to share every time. For those who do share, please know this will be an encouraging environment, and your story will stay in the classroom.
Please bring your preferred writing tools, either paper or laptop, your work in progress, your hot/cold beverage of choice, and your readiness to write!
Karen Nemecek is a retired public school teacher who has taught a range of French and English language, composition and creative writing, and theater courses from middle school through the university level. Karen holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Michigan State University; she is fan of Big Ten football, Broadway, Shakespeare, Motown, and Zingerman's Cranberry Pecan bread. She is a published poet, a panel moderator at the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book, a past participant in the National Writing Project, and a lifetime member of the Little Traverse Civic Theatre. She and her husband divide their time between Petoskey and Higgins Lake.
Refunds are unavailable for cancellations made within 48 hours of the class
