IWWG Boston Writing From Your Life Retreat

Please join us for our 3^rd annual day long creative writing retreat with three outstanding IWWG instructors. Our Writing from Your Life Retreat offers you professional and personal insights into writing memoir, myth & monologue in crafting prose, as well as exceptional enrichment of your creative life. Experience the gifts of the Guild community during our annual regional event in MetroWest Boston on April 28, 2018 from 9:30-5:15.

 Susan Tiberghien – The Zen of Writing: Clear Seeing, Clear Writing

 Maureen Murdock – Writing The Heroine’s Journey

Kelly DuMar – Your Memoir as Monologue: Crafting Dynamic Monologues for Performance & Publication

The Zen of Writing: Clear Seeing, Clear Writing with Susan Tiberghien  To enter into the mystery of Zen, we need to let go of all the distractions that surround us. We need to lift the lid of our conscious minds and open our eyes. What we see clearing, we will write clearly. We will focus first on journal writing, looking for seeds for life stories. Then on how to write our stories, focusing on both personal essays and memoir. In reading excerpts from C.G. Jung, Thich Nhat Hanh, Natalie Goldberg, Annie Dillard and Suki Kim, we will let the practice of Zen inspire and illuminate our own writing.

Writing The Heroine’s Journey: Maureen Murdock Now, more than ever, women are speaking their truth as the feminine demands healing. In this workshop we will explore the stages in The Heroine’s Journey, which redefines the heroic quest for women. The journey entails an initial separation from feminine values, seeking recognition and success in a patriarchal culture, experiencing spiritual aridity and death, and turning inward to reclaim the power and spirit of the sacred feminine. As women claim their voice and name their experience, this workshop will provide a framework for their voice to be heard.

Your Memoir as Monologue: Crafting Dynamic Monologues for Performance & Publication with Kelly DuMar There’s beauty and meaning to mine from your life story, and this workshop will help you artistically express and creatively share your life experiences through the medium of theatre. You’ll learn how to write successful dramatic monologues that are personally meaningful, emotionally satisfying, and relevant and engaging for an audience. Through writing prompts, you’ll develop ordinary and extraordinary life experiences into powerful, dramatic monologues that can be performed – by you or an actor – with universal appeal. Using elements of dramatic structure, we’ll explore how to setup your monologue, infusing it with theatricality, conflict, and narrative arc and discuss how to get your monologue produced. Beginning and experienced writers are welcome!