WEBINAR | Writing with Your Ghosts: Turning Hauntings into Portals
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WEBINAR | Writing with Your Ghosts: Turning Hauntings into Portals
November 5 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm EST
The questions, voices, places, and ideas that haunt you are a roadmap into the deepest layers of your writing.
For All Writers
As writers, we have themes and questions that we return to over and over again in our work. Sometimes this can feel limiting, but what if what you can’t shake off is meant to stick? Our “hauntings” are threads we’re holding that haven’t found their pattern. Writing is one of many ways we weave their patterns so they can rest.
What may feel common or repetitive is really the foundation of everything that is ours. These recurring themes contain the portals to our strongest stories. Let’s look at what we can learn from the things that haunt us and populate our unique writer’s point of view.
In this generative writing workshop, we will engage with exercises that help you meet and get to know the things that haunt you and your work. Not only will you name and dialogue with a haunting or two, but you’ll also learn ways to turn your hauntings into generative writing portals, create three fresh approaches to an old question, and take a short detour through the work of Georgia O’Keeffe’s skull paintings.
Come prepared to explore the other worlds that live inside of you!
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- EXPLORE questions and themes that haunt you
- IDENTIFY a common thread among your obsessions
- REFLECT on the use of a single subject in the skull paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe
- LEARN HOW to re-energize what feels familiar and stale
- CREATE three different writing approaches to one of your hauntings
This webinar is ideal for writers who…
- Are curious about the secrets hidden in their hauntings
- Feel their work has become repetitive
- Are seeking new approaches to their writing themes
- Want to learn how to re-energize a familiar topic
- Are feeling stuck inside a single story
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Laraine Herring’s memoir, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens, was released in 2021 from Regal House. She’s the editor of the anthology Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction (Pact Press, 2024), and a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala, including Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. She’s a retired professor of creative writing and psychology, and has worked with writers for thirty years. She’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor, and creator of The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about. She founded the online ‘zine Hags on Fire, a place for women to share stories about menopause, and co-designed The Imaginal Memoir Cave immersion program with Gayle Brandeis. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tiferet, The Rumpus, The Manifest-Station, and many more places. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology, and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats.
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