Online Class: Creative Writing Workshop

Creative Writing Workshop  

Write.  Learn.  Belong. 

Tap into the creative writer within you.  Whether you are a beginner or experienced writer, this writing workshop is for you.  You will write poetry and prose using similes, metaphors, alliteration, and more through practice and daily writing exercises with a live, interactive, online teacher you can talk with. 

Creative Writing Workshop offers you inspiration, a wealth of concrete examples, and the step by step guidance you need in order to write creatively.  I will show you writing prompts and samples from my own journal to provide you a model, and to give you the support you need.  Bring a desire to learn, and a commitment to write every day throughout the entire course..  You will also be given honest, but gentle and constructive feedback.

Imagine composing your own Writing Journal full of fresh and exciting prompts, poems, and ideas to keep you writing.  Write, learn, and belong to the community of writers here at Universal Class.

~Discover the joys of writing.  Join us now.

  Look for my other class, Memoir Writing and write your family stories.

Class Lessons to be covered include: Lesson One: Inside This Pen Step One: The Pen Occasion Step Two: Purchase a Writing Journal Step Three: Reading and Writing To be a Writer, You Must Write Your Voice is Like a Snowflake Prior Knowledge Voice The Single Best Writing Tip Reading Response Step Four: 30 Minute Daily Write It's Okay to Write Junk Objectivity Rules: Thirty Minutes Means Thirty Minutes Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing Variety is More Than a Spice Paint a Picture With Words Imagery Ocean Play Tuesday at Lexington Market The End, Then What? Lesson Two: Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor I Am a Writer Speak Like a Writer Capture the Moment Fake Rain on an Aluminum Roof Ready? Click. Shoot. Daily Writing Check-Up Prompts Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor Prompt 1: When Life gives You Lemons, Write a Sensory Descriptive Observation Simile and Metaphor: Cultural Experience: Prompt 3: Jazz up your writing with the "w" words Who, What, When, Where, Why and How Lexington market, Baltimore Prompt 4: Extended Metaphor Moon Journal Alliteration Onomatopoeia Lesson Three Be an Ethnographer with Euphony and Cacophony prompt 6: Ethnographer for a Day! Create a poem from an Ethnography Report Prompt 7: Found Poem Prompt 8: Appropriated Poem Prompt 9: Cacophony Prompt 10: Euphony Hyperbole Things to Think About. Themes Make a List, Check it Twice The Beach Collection Prompt 11: Free association poetry Prompt 12: The Color Poem Lesson Four Activate Your Schema Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Prompt 13: The List In the Scheme of Things Inside the Wonderful World of Prepositions Prompt 14: Extend the List of Prepositions Neighborhood Mapping Tag, Your it: the Lost Art of Play Play Lesson Five Journal Experience Prompt 17: Daily Free Write Poem Photographic Memory Prompt 19: Museum Painting Evaluating Your Journal