Creative Writing Team Member

Please choose this module if you're excited to be part of our Creative Writing mini-modules in the near future! If you add this module to your wish list (or short-list it), we will include you in our communications about upcoming mini modules and let you know what's available. Note: Our mini modules are special month-long group experiences designed for a small and intimate group of 2 to 4 students for the cost of 1 Token. As soon as we get enough interested students that reserve their seat, we'll schedule this class with the group and fly! [show less]

A Feast of Writing! In one weekend, we're going to celebrate creativity by attempting a complete short story, novelette, or novella! Our format will include SPACE class sessions, WriterSpace focused writing time in excellent company, Bandersnatch Breakout room for talking about our craft and peer feedback, and an enthusiastic celebration of Story. So sharpen your quills, line up the inkpots, make a BIG casserole to last the weekend. Here's the plan: ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Friday from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Eastern ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Saturday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Saturday from 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM Eastern: ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sunday from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Our goal is to create a completed first draft in one weekend! Prompts, planning, focus methods, peer encouragement, machete editing, character crucibles — we’ll do it all. Writers will write between sessions as well as during. You are going to end this amazing experience with a complete first draft of your story! Note: For more information about the Collaborative Feedback Method in SPACE, please check out our video here. [show less]

Well-prepared writers enjoy more completion success! We will build worlds, plan character arcs, and try to define the bones of our stories during a month of glorious sub-creation! When you declare your intentions to the group, that act of bravery alone adds momentum to your writing efforts after the month is over. (This Module is great preparation before National Novel Writing Month) Note: For more information about the Collaborative Feedback Method in SPACE, please check out our video here. [show less]

We will walk through a complete project from pre-writing through writing, revising, editing, (revising, revising, revising), proofreading, and talking about publication options. Are you interested in finally getting down that memoir of your childhood? making a storybook for your grands? turning that daydream into a novelette? This adventure is for you! Whether your story is a draft, an outline, or a daydream, your project is welcome here in a place where we are aiming to finish it! Note: For more information about the Collaborative Feedback Method in SPACE, please check out our video here. [show less]

This Collaborative Feedback-based peer workshop experience extends over two months, allowing the luxury of more time to read and comment on one another’s work. The cost is one token, the eight hours of class time are simply spread out. We will meet to blend learning, discussion, and playing games with reading, appreciating, and commenting on one another’s work as it is submitted for peer review. Writers are encouraged—but never required—to submit new pieces in any state of draftiness or readiness up to 2,000 words each week for peer reading and feedback. Our Collaborative Feedback method, developed here at Signum University, asks us to comment at the author's comfort level through a structured reader (not editor) response. We gather to encourage the story that the author wants to tell. Our philosophy of kindness first might just turn around your previous experience of writing groups. [show less]

Your story is unique. Do you want to set it down on paper for yourself? For your family? No other person has accumulated your experiences; no other person has had your potential, learning, drive, disappointments, challenges, triumphs, and quiet joys. We'll explore a variety of media and forms for memoir writing, from picture books to blogs. We'll interview one another with kindness and encouragement and draw amazing stories out of each other—and ourselves. Note: For more information about the Collaborative Feedback Method in SPACE, please check out our video here. [show less]