Guest Blogger: An Online Circle

My cousin, Carrie Link, blogs several days each week.  Her blog fully-caffeinated.blogspot.com is heartfelt, often humorous and always straight forward, whatever the subject. She has readers all over the world who read and comment. She writes of personal insights and daily family life along with frequent touching stories about her dear 13 year old special needs son.  Love, honesty, pain and spirituality shine through her writing. Through Carrie I met Deb Shucka, first through her blog catbirdscout.blogspot.com, then in person. Deb writes beautifully of her life experience and observations along with fascinating stories of time she spent with a cult.  Both have extensively studied and practiced the art of writing memoir.  Together they are offering an online class to begin January 11th as well as an in-person class here in Portland.  This will be an amazing class for sure!

Nancy, Owner

Creating Quiet Spaces

Posted November 23, 2009 on Carrie’s Link’s blog fully-caffeinated.blogspot.com

AN ONLINE CIRCLE

As those of you who visit here regularly know, Deb Shucka and I are offering a writing workshop in Portland starting in January. We are amazed and excited that so many of you have asked about the possibility of an online memoir writing class, as well. So it is with pleasure that we are announcing one, to begin Monday, January 11. (We still have 2 more spots in the in-person class, if you live in the Portland area.)

Many of you are in situations where going to a class won’t work, but you’re hungry for a memoir writing community and for the accountability attending a class creates. If you’re looking for a safe place in which to tell your story and receive support and feedback, whether it’s your first effort or whether you’ve finished a book, this class will satisfy that need.

We will provide prompts, deadlines, teachings that will add to your craft tool kit, and detailed feedback for your writing. You will write, share your writing, and offer gentle feedback and support to each other.

Please contact us for cost and additional information. We’re looking forward to learning and writing and moving closer to the light of truth together with you.

carriewilsonlink@comcast.net or dshucka@teleport.com