Description
Whether you love writing fiction (novels, short stories, scripts, screenplays) or you’ve never tried it or anywhere in between…the experience that we call Storyworlding is a supportive, scrumptious community space where you’ll be guided through writing intuitive fiction.
It might be a good match for you if you’d like to:
-
Create a new relationship with your imagination and its depths
-
Learn powerful techniques to translate inner pictures into words
-
Experience the satisfaction of pushing the boundaries of your creative process
-
Reveal new layers of awareness and understanding to yourself, by activating a very unique approach to self-discovery or journaling.
-
Become more confident about expressing your ideas in any area of your life
-
Improve your health and well-being by boosting your vitality by creating new worlds!
-
e dazzled and transported by the writing shared …by others and by yourself!
What is Storyworlding?
Simply put, Storyworlding is the opposite of storyboarding.
Let’s back up: storyboarding is the (very useful!) process of planning out your story and mapping out all the components of the narrative: plotline, characters, conflict, stakes, tactics, etc. It’s understanding the frame-by-frame blueprint of your story, which serves as the foundation for your writing. It helps you keep track of where you are and where you are going.
Storyworlding is the opposite! It’s writing without the map. It’s writing with no net, no plan, no diagram or scaffold. It’s letting intuition and imagination loose for some free range rough-and-tumble play. It’s creating a world & characters that surprise you constantly as you create, where writing itself becomes as suspenseful as the most intricate page-turner.
This experience emphasizes process over product, so the objective is not to finish a complete piece, but to connect to a new writing voice that you didn’t even know you had.
If you’ve never, or rarely, written fiction: Doing something brand NEW can bring such a spark to your life. Writing fiction is the ultimate experience of creative freedom: you’re literally creating a new world. And when you do, you create a new world for yourself in your everyday life.
If you’re an experienced writer: writing intuitive fiction write might be different than your usual process. You’ll be encouraged to put your “craft” aside, and reawaken your intuition and innate sense of play. It’s a wonderful thing to let loose and create from a place that feels beyond what we know. You’ll get your spark back, and your whole life will light up as a result.
These techniques also work for any time of writing: fiction, essays, poetry, introspective journaling…
When you’re Storyworlding, you never know where your story will take you. You’ll be writing in a way that consciously opens the doors to synchronicity….and the words and worlds you create will provide the ideal magic for what you need in your life right now. Maybe they’ll incarnate into a current writing project? Or influence a decision you make in your daily life? Or give birth to an entire new project? Or reveal a new creative practice that makes you feel ALIVE!
In keeping with the traditional literary salons, there will be time allotted to share writing to a partner (optional but strongly encouraged!)
PLUS…Get Weekly Follow-Up Notes: You’ll also receive weekly notes with additional information about the week’s topic and exercises, which you can explore in your own time.
Here are some comments from previous “Storyworlding” participants:
The Storyworlding Salon kept my fires lit while working through the multi-level creative writing process. It also revealed many wonderful surprises that I would have never expected to appear.
Storyworld class brought me way out of my comfort zone into the land of truly not knowing. It brought a new level of wonder, trust and vulnerability.
I never knew that stories could just flow through me like this. Sharing my writing helped me to get a sense of how others experience my stories and hearing their writing was amazing too. An unparalleled experience under the guidance of a true master!
This was about so much more than writing. It was about turning on the colored lights in all the areas in my life. I’ve never thought of myself as a writer. Turns out, I am one. Who knew?
Storyworlding opened me to deeper levels of my being. This is not a class. It’s a Salon of artists playing with words, sharing their brilliance, being seen, heard, and appreciated.
About me, Marney Makridakis: I’m a published author of two bestselling non-fiction books about the creative process, the self-publisher of the print magazine Artella, and have had stories and poems featured in a variety of periodicals and anthologies. I’m also a playwright, having written eight musicals, one of which is which was recently produced off Broadway in New York . But most importantly, I’m a mermaid splashing in an ocean of words, equally at-home in real and imaginary spaces.Will you join me in the Storyworlding Salon this Fall? May we all go to a place where our creativity makes us gasp. And to do it in the spirit of wild play, and in the company of great love.
-
Ready to create worlds? Scroll to the top of this page and click the button to enroll!
