Writing Rapidly to find your Gems

Tue Feb 11 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-06:00

1907 Sabine St | Houston

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Writing Rapidly to find your Gems
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Writers block? Slow output? This is the writing workshop for you!
About this Event

INSTRUCTOR: Joyce Boatright
​TIME: Tuesday, February 11, 6-9 pm CST/CDT
PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Friday, January 17. After Friday, January 17: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.
LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map).
LEVEL: All levels
CAP: 15

If you struggle to get inspired, if you can't keep on task, sometimes you just need to push the words out. Join us at this Writespace workshop for an inspiring exercise in writing rapidly that will reveal how practice makes perfect and the only way to make an omelette is to crack some literary eggs!

One challenge we have as writers is quieting the negative committee in our heads that constantly criticizes. This workshop will show us how to silence those internal critics and find the gems in our prose and poetry that keeps us engaged on the page. Borrowing from writing guru Natalie Goldberg and others, we’ll learn to write fast—ahead of the Internal Critic. By trusting the creative process, we’ll soon find the gold in our work.

Joyce Boatright is a writer, teacher, and storyteller with several decades of experience. Published in literary journals and anthologies, she is also the author of Telling Your Story: A Basic Guide to Memoir Writing (available at the Jung Center Bookstore, Houston). She has been teaching and writing memoir since 1991. Joyce is an active member of the writing community, holding memberships In the National Association of Memoir Writers, Story Circle Network, Writers League of Texas, and Writespace Writing Center. Visit her online at JoyceBoatright.com.



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1907 Sabine St, 1907 Sabine Street, Houston, United States

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USD 49.87 to USD 76.54

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