Write The Body Electric: A Creative Process Workshop for Writers in All Genres

Workshop Leader: Stacey Engels

Cost: $160 for QWF members; $190 for non-members

Cost of QWF membership (annual) plus workshop: $200

Payment is due within one week of registration to confirm your spot. Please review our cancellation policy.

For more information, or to register: (514) 933-0878 or [email protected]

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This two-session course is open to writers in all genres.

Whether you have a specific writing goal or are playing with the puzzle pieces of a new project, this class will provide strategies for developing good work habits, honing your curiosity and finding inspiration everywhere–without and within.

Over the two Saturday sessions, we will learn to find the sweet spot between discipline and freedom. We aim to break the boundaries that stand between us and our true innovative capacities, and develop the boundaries that safeguard and sustain a regular writing practice.

In each session, we will discuss selected writings in different genres, drawing on these and non-writing media for inspiration in creative experiments. We will play with colour, sound, rhythm, and form to ignite the senses and expand our understanding of what’s possible in writing, before diving into prompts and exercises.

We will also borrow from meditation techniques to focus our concentration, explore our preconceptions about time, and ally ourselves with our bodies as sources of information and inspiration.

With practice, using the techniques shared in this course, participants will learn to maximize their available time, bypass the inner critic, and tap into inspiration, innovation, and authenticity every time they sit down to write.