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The Power of Writing Scenes

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Memory and Imagination

Helen Fremont and Linda Joy Myers, October 22

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The Times They Were a-Changin’

Writing group for women, 8 Tuesdays from September 22

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This week from Linda Joy

I hope you are having a good writing week! But sometimes, the well seems dry. No worries—we all need time to rest, muse, gather ourselves. The stories that need to come will arise from silence. If you want a writing prompt, here is one I have enjoyed:

Write about your favorite days as a young child—when you were lost in play, in your imagination. What was that like, to be free like that to imagine anything? We can find that space now in ourselves. Freewrite by hand, if you can. It can be magical.

Until next week!

Linda Joy

Workshops and Classes

The Times They Were a-Changin’: Writing Group for Women

An eight week writing group for women who lived through the ’60s and ’70s. Gather your photos, journals and music, and write the stories only you can tell, with Linda Joy Myers.