Sign Up for the Writing Is My Drink Webinar!
Hi Readers,
This July I’m teaching a webinar based on the book Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (And a Guide to How You Can Too), and I’d love for you to join me. In Writing Is My Drink, I tell my story of coming into my voice as a writer because I believe that any story of a one person’s journey from Can’t to Can contains within it the story of pretty much everyone’s path from No to Yes. The circumstances may differ from person to person, but each of us who has felt both simultaneously compelled to express and daunted by the task has faced the same challenges, the same doubts, the same fears.
Similarly, there are common paths for finding the way out of doubt and into your voice. In the four-week Writing Is My Drink webinar, I will walk you through the process of discovering your own true material and momentum as a writer.This is not a technical class about how to write a memoir or a novel; this is a class about how to get past the fear and the doubt and get to what I call “your real writing,” the real work you know you need to do. No previous writing experience is required.
The webinar will focus on finding your work’s (sometimes hidden) themes, discovering your aesthetic as a reader and a writer, and understanding what inspires you and learning how to tap into that inspiration so that your work is not just functionally sound but also representative of your vision and mission as a writer. We will also be discussing how to recognize and address the doubts that can stop us from writing. The webinar will offer many opportunities to do short in-class writing assignments and very short homework assignments designed to bring you into “your real writing,” the work that quietly and sometimes not-so-quietly nags at you until you do it. By the way, I’m not a fan of writing exercises for the sake of writing exercises. The webinar’s activities are designed with the idea in mind that each participant should find at least a few that morph into larger pieces of writing that feel authentic and powerful to both the writer and readers.
The last half hour of each 1.5 hour long class session will be used for Q and A, in which students can ask me any question they like about writing.
Classes will be held on four Thursday evenings at 6pm to 7:30pm Pacific Time, starting July 10th (July 10, 17, 24 and 31). The classes will be held via GotoMeeting.com, allowing you to both see and hear me as well as the other students. (It’s actually very easy to use and you participate in the class even if you don’t have a webcam). All classes will be recorded, so if you miss a class, you’ll be able to listen to the audio portion of it at your convenience. You can attend the classes from anywhere you can call in or get online. All enrolled students also receive a 30-minute private coaching call with me.
After you’ve paid for the class using Pay Pal or credit card, you will receive a confirmation email from me and instructions for entering the first class on July 10th and setting up your included one-on-one coaching appointment. Cost for the four classes and 30-minute coaching session: $145. Questions? Email me at theonestorprods@gmail.com.
Registration fees are 100 percent refundable until July 10, 2014. From July 10-17, 2014, registration fees will be 80 percent refundable. After July 17, 2014, registration fees will not be refundable.
$145.00
Writing Is My Drink Webinar registration:(4) 1.5 hour-long classes and (1) 30-minute coaching call with Theo Pauline Nestor.
Optional: Add a one-hour coaching session with Theo Pauline Nestor for 99 dollars to be used anytime before 9/15/14 (a 30-minute coaching session is included with the webinar):
Interested in real life Writing Is My Drink classes? Email me at theonestorprods@gmail.com. I’m planning on teaching one-day Writing Is My Drink intensives in various U.S. locations beginning this fall.
Theo Pauline Nestor is the author of Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (And a Guide to How You Can Too) (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over (Crown, 2008), which was selected by Kirkus Reviews as a 2008 Top Pick for Reading Groups and as a Target “Breakout Book.” An award-winning instructor, Nestor has taught the memoir certificate course for the University of Washington’s Professional & Continuing Education program since 2006 and also teaches at Richard Hugo House in Seattle. Nestor also produces events for writers such as the Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat, Bird by Bird & Beyond, and the Black Mesa Writers’ Intensive, featuring talks by literary leaders such as Anne Lamott, Cheryl Strayed, Julia Cameron, and Natalie Goldberg. She lives in Seattle with her family and their cat, Rory. You can follow her on Facebook here and on Twitter @theopnestor.
