Writing from the Senses

A Weekend Intensive with Janet Fitch

Offered through the Community of Writers, www.communityofwriters.org

 Five two-hour sessions, Oct. 9-11 

“Observation is the first act of the imagination,” said poet William Carlos Williams. But these days, we spend most of our time shut up in dimmed rooms, staring at screens--and our writing shows it. This workshop is designed to get you from behind the screen and into physical reality, revitalizing your practice and invigorating your work with the richness of the sensual, a portal to memory and the imagination.

Perception is just half the journey.  Who hasn’t been captivated by a wayward scent, a certain effect of light, and been at a loss to transfer the experience it into words? Not only will you learn to observe more keenly, but you’ll develop the tools to turn vivid sense impressions into rich, startling language. 

 The format combines lecture and generative exercises, in-class discussion and experiential assignments, designed for writers who could use a creative jolt, a bit more play in their practice. Suitable for fiction writers, memoirists, poets and anyone ready to get their heads (and those of their readers) out from behind those screens and back into the savory dimensionality of sensual reality.

www.communityofwriters.org