Explore the landscape of your life—
from a distance, and up close!
I am a writer trained to see metaphor. Lately, I've been fascinated with the horizon, big skies, mountains and gorgeous vistas. Standing on firm ground, the horizon is eight miles away and we can never reach it. But in the Smokies, at 4,000-plus feet, we could see for miles and miles and miles. With such distance from the horizon, I feel the wonder at my insignificance.
So it is with memoir writing. Writing about scenes from the landscape of life helps us to achieve distance from the experience. What was once memory, becomes a story. People become characters. And you begin to embrace the plot of your life!
Of course, we cannot capture the entire landscape. There is so much that we cannot see—the black bears, waterfalls and the life teeming in the trees and mountain lakes. The story depends on the place from which the writer has viewed a personal landscape.
So, how to begin? As the Chinese mystic, Lao Tzu. said, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Consider taking a step onto the path that will lead you on a storytelling journey. Write your life! Join a six-week memoir workshop beginning Thursday, October 27 at 6 PM at the Shape & Flow writing studio!
$160 per person for six sessions 2.5 hours each
Subsequent meetings are scheduled at the first workshop to accommodate participants.
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