Writer’s Idea Box: sample prompt

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I am currently facilitating a six-month long series of memoir writing workshops at a local senior activity center. The first one was last Friday. I’ve included the whole workshop syllabus here for you so you can get a feeling for what I mean by “writing prompt.”

I use the same format for each workshop: writing warm-up, sharing, exploring writing samples of the genre we are writing, writing exercises, and more sharing with what I like to call “soft feedback.”

I am posting this syllabus here at no charge so that you can see what you’ll get before you join the new and evolving Writer’s Idea Box community, which I hope you do! There is an annual ($10) fee to subscribe. You’ll get a new syllabus like this one every month plus the opportunity to submit to the fws: writer’s idea box issue (No one has submitted to the issue yet! Be the first!) of fws: international journal of literature & art. There are already three syllabi in the idea box now.

Here’s the syllabus modeled after a poem and a project by George Ella Lyon, Kentucky Poet Laureate 2015-26 entitled “Where I’m From.”

Memoir Writing Where I’m From for Writer’s Idea BoxDownload

I look forward to reading what you write and to having you join the Writer’s Idea Box community! Leave a comment below and let me know what you think…

Namaste,

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