Loosen up and have fun. Writing prompts can spark an idea and get you out of a writing slump. You'll learn a bit and surprise yourself.
The Cure for Writer’s Block
Nothing cures “writer’s block” faster than WRITING. But perhaps it’s best to write something you’re not going to fret about? Something that won’t make or break your reputation as a writer?
Some of my favorite writing classes at the University of Iowa were “generative,” which is a fancy way of saying we were encouraged to come up with new ideas, instead of working on our current writing projects. Honestly, I found I could do both. When I was a bit “stuck” in the middle of a novel, a prompt might inspire a new plot twist. And when I look back at prompts from years earlier, new characters and ideas were right there on the page, waiting for me.
We’ll do prompts with a PURPOSE–meant to unlock ideas and also relax your “writing muscles.” We’ll talk a bit about writing techniques, too, like Point of View and dialogue, to get you out of your comfort zone. But mostly we’ll just relax and make writing FUN again.
Prompts might work nicely with the project you’re working on, but maybe you need to relax and have fun, and write something new? Maybe you need to jog those muscles loose and come up with something so unlike what you’ve been writing that you didn’t even know you had it in you.
What You’ll Do in the Workshop
- Respond to BRAND NEW creative writing prompts
- Unlock ideas you didn’t know were lurking in your head
- Get out of your creative comfort zone
- Experiment with dialect, dialogue, conflict, and description.
Who Should Attend
- Anybody who wants to have fun writing
- Writers looking for new ideas
- Writers who want to feel creative again
- Anybody suffering from Writer’s Block
BONUS OFFER
- There will be too many participants to share our writing during the seminar, but you can email a prompt to Myra for personal (free) feedback.
About Myra
Myra Levine is on a mission: to make sure nobody dies with their story still inside them. She shows writers how to turn their lives, experiences, and areas of expertise into memoirs and fiction. She teaches writing techniques not taught in school, avoids literary jargon, and teaches in plain old English. And her classes are FUN. After all, writing isn’t about knowing where to put the commas; it’s about capturing a moment and bringing it to life.
As a writing coach, Myra challenges her clients to master the tools of fiction. Understanding point of view, dialog, setting, and character development will bring your fiction to a higher level AND will help you write an unforgettable memoir. The germ of an idea can become a great story, or a dozen great stories, or a terrific novel—and a coach can cut years of frustration from the job of writing a great book.
Before turning to fiction and publishing two novels, Myra spent decades writing television and radio scripts, instructional videos, and corporate marketing programs. She won many local and regional advertising awards before leaving corporate life to become a wife and mother of two adopted kids. Stay-at-home-motherhood in the suburbs rekindled her ambition to write fiction and gave her LOTS to write about. She writes family stories, but focuses mainly on fiction.
“If you twist the truth into fiction, your friends and family will probably still speak to you.”
—Myra Levine
Myra’s live Zoom seminars attract writers from all over the world.
Writing as M.E. Levine, Myra’s novels, Revenge of the Soccer Moms and The Dead Mothers’ Club, are available on Amazon.com (print & e-book) and Audible.com (audiobook).