Description
Whether you love writing fiction (novels, short stories, scripts, screenplays) or you’ve never tried it or anywhere in between…The Storyworlding Salon is a supportive, scrumptious community space where you’ll be guided through writing intuitive fiction. I call it storyworlding….
It might be a good match for you if you’d like to:
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Create a new relationship with your imagination and its depths
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Learn powerful techniques to translate inner pictures into words
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Experience the satisfaction of pushing the boundaries of your creative process
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Reveal new layers of awareness and understanding to yourself, by activating a very unique approach to self-discovery or journaling.
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Become more confident about expressing your ideas in any area of your life
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Improve your health and well-being by boosting your vitality by creating new worlds!
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Be dazzled and transported by the writing shared …by others and by yourself!
What is Storyworlding?
Simply put, Storyworlding is the opposite of storyboarding.
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 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.
About The Three Sessions
Each of the three 12-week Sessions is now available as a Self-Study Program.
Each contains 12 video recordings of two-hour classes, plus follow-up notes, resources, and writing prompts.
Session 1: Imaginary Places and Spaces
Imaginary Places and Spaces – environments that can’t exist in reality and other paradoxes – are the ideal subjects to help shake loose the borders of our creativity. When things don’t need to “make sense” – your writing welcomes a freedom that is unlimited. Have fun breaking rules of stories! The 12 weeks are structured so that you can build on your writing each week and continuing creating one story…or veer off in new directions each week.
Session 2: The Hero’s Journey with Wings
The Hero’s Journey is the narrative framework identified by Joseph Campbell, which encompasses the archetypes present in all stories, in all cultures. Each week introduced a new component in the Hero’s Journey, all working toward one story that is built week-to-week, through unique and unconventional prompts to help take your writing in unexpected directions.
Session 3: Splashes, Sparks, and Synchronicity
Each week’s class stands alone in this session – so you can do the classes in any order, or over any timeframe. Each week features a new “story spark” — a technique to play within the territory of a narrative, like: techniques for mixing and matching your phrases to release magic, turning your words upside down to reveal a new truth, taking the pulse of your sentences and administering creative O2 (Exponential Oomph! ), seeing what might be hiding underneath an ordinary verb…and lots more!
When you’re Storyworlding, you never know where your story will take you. You’re opening a door 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!
Here are some comments from participants in The Storyworld Salon:
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.
