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SPRING TIME WRITERS
Writing Workshops
Words for the Mind & Spirit

Attend a workshop in the Colorado Rocky Mt. Region to improve your writing skills while relaxing in a mountainside retreat, with endless sunshine and deep-blue skies, breathing in fresh mountain air, and enjoying fresh foods. Be nurtured with warm, professional tutoring on how to get your book or memoirs started or refined, or write short stories and essays. Classes restricted to only one to four people to enable private attention (special arrangements for groups up to eight). Most workshops are especially designed for women. (see below "Home" page for more details.) Includes creative writing in everything you do: fiction, self-help non-fiction, and journalings.

Writers Tips and Anthology available.
Our compilation book of our finest writing tips and exercises, and samples of works published on our web site over the past three years. Clear, exciting, simple and fun! Visit "Writers: Birthing Creative Writing..." for more details on this anthology. Only $11.95 plus $2 postage.

• Holistic Wellness (with Journaling)
  4 day weekend workshops; offered May to September Therapy for the Heart

  Attune your chi energy with nature, begin self-healing, change your life style through knowledge of nutrition, and enjoy benefits of spa treatments. Journaling guidance for self-healing and self-discovery, and meditations.

• Creative Writing
  4 day weekend workshops, offered twice monthly, May to September. Creative Writing

  Creative Writing: May 29 (or 30) to June 2 (or 1st); June 6 to 9, June 21 (Sat) to 24 *Tues); July 3 (Thur) to July 6 (Sun) or Monday; July 18 to 2; August 1 to 4; August 15 to 18; and August 29 to Sept. 1 (Labor Day weekend), and September 5 to 8 (or begin Sept 4 Thurs), 2008.

  Creative writing workshop: exercises, discussions, critiques; warm atmosphere and serene surroundings to meditate in and be inspired. For fiction and non-fiction writers and novelists. Goal of the class is to break down traditional writing barriers and produce heart-felt fresh material. Small classes for individual attention. Limited to 1 to 3 people for personal attention.

• Journaling, Memoirs
  4 day weekend workshops, offered twice monthly, May to September. Journaling only

  In-Depth Journaling: July 11 to 14, August 8 to 11, 2008

  In-depth journaling could change your life! Find out what's been keeping you back. Uncover hidden motivations. Discover your true thoughts and aspirations.

  New Workshops for 2008

  "Blooming Poets," Poetry for Beginners
  4 day weekend workshops, offered twice during summer. Creative Writing

  August 22 to 23 and September 19 to 22, 2008
  Have you always enjoyed poetry and wished you could get a grasp on how to write it, or improve on your pieces? This workshop involves learning the basics of the different types of poetry, and then soaring ahead into the beauty, joy and pleasure of writing poems that have great meaning and depth to you and your readers.

  "Express Yourself," Visual Journaling
  4 day weekend workshops, offered twice during summer Journaling only

  June 27 to 30; September 12 to 15, 2008.
  Using art to help bring out "your story." (no artistic experience required) It's fun and revealing! This also involves journaling (writing), in order to understand better your discoveries. Learn the meaning of colors and how they affect your life. Make a mandala (circle medallion for meditation). An easy art project each day!

  "Throughout history, artistic expression has been recognized as a catalyst for healing. Art is an expression of mind and spirit, and cannot be left out of our equation of healing...Modern art therapy is being employed as a potent healthcare intervention." Larry Dossey, MD. Author, "Prayer is Good Medicine and Healing Words."

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  Tentative Workshops: Aimed at bringing more "springtime" into our lives, year round.

  These tours are usually one week long, include unique beautiful lodging and some/or/all meals, all Tour transportation and guides or teachers, and run approximately $1,500.00. (We can arrange to take your small group on their own exclusive trip.)

  CREATING A NEW WORLD (NEW ORLEANS AND LOCAL PLANTATIONS) Tentatively scheduled; approx. one week.
  We are bringing back our workshop to Louisiana. It was cancelled the last couple of years due to Katrina. We will be doing some journaling, and staying at luxurious lodging on a couple of plantations, with daily half-day tours, including: a "ghost tour", a day tour of New Orleans, and other unique sights. Free time is included for you to do antique shopping in this historically rich area. We will also be visiting the reconstruction area, and doing a ceremony to bring more "love from the heart" to the recovering area. Please let us know if you are interested in this workshop; and we will keep you informed.

  SOUTHWEST ARCHITECTURE Tentatively scheduled during "mid"season (not hot, not cold); approx. one week.
  Our tour centers around the delightfully hot spot of Phoenix, Arizona. You will find numerous spectacular examples of southwest architecture and art in this area, and you are guaranteed a sunny sky! (during the bleak winter days). The (light) journaling on this trip will involve some "visual" journaling and analysis. Frank Lloyd Wright's name is all over the area, including the Biltmore hotel (Phoenix), and the acoustically perfect hall that was designed by him, Gammage, where you will enjoy a live performance. Enjoy the contemporary Historical Museum, the Botanical Gardens (with 50,000 desert plants), early "architecture" by the prehistoric Hohokam Indians. With many evening venues to frolic in like the Rawhide Western Town or the Waterfront park, and a surprising IKEA Restaurant, with, yes, Swedish cruisine. We will be staying at the quaint Twin Palms, a renovated B&B style hotel, with noteworthy architecture of its own. Of course, the highlight of the trip will be Taliesin West; with private behind the scene tours . Wright had an east and a west workshop, and Taliesin West was the western one, open in the winter months, as well as his winter home. Today the School of Architecture is still open, and the facility is used as the headquarters of the Wright Foundation. Please write us if you are interested in this trip.

  Our "FINDING YOUR MISSION IN LIFE" workshop is on hiatus, to make room for the new workskops. === Most of our workshops involve self-analysis and clarification of goals. Watch this web page, or subscribe to our free Newsletter to stay informed about this and other new workshops.

Writing Tips (April/May 2008)

"Real Heroines"

The following tips are aimed at the Romance Writer, but can be useful to all fiction writers.
Many look to the location and time period first when writing a Romance novel, but the truth is that human nature is the same across all time. While a woman in the 17th century may have different interests or restrictions than a woman in the 21st century, she would probably behave in the same manner when it came to true love or protection of her baby. Once you know how "a woman" acts, then you can realistically show her reaction to the situation, accentuating it with information from her "time period." Deeply understand the woman first, and then place her in that hut or chateau.

The more you write down in her description (life story) the more she will become well-rounded and not just a cliche. (The "life description" is not part of the text; it is for your benefit.) By making her more realistic, you will enable your reader to identify with her and get carried away with the heroine's journey. While many women are attracted to a Romance novel because of the escapism fantasy, they still want her to be someone they can relate to in some manner.

Writing Exercise. (April/May 2008)

"Excitement from the First Person Point of View (Mystery)"

If you want your story to have a punch, using the First Person Point of View might be the perfect tool. For example, if you take a mystery, or more specifically a murder, imagine that "hero" entering the room and experiencing things first hand. He/she sees the disorder of the room, then the body on the floor, then the crying spouse... Racing through their mind are a variety of things, like "why was that painting slashed?" "why is there no blood?" "why is the wife dressed like that?" The reader will be discovering and pondering the murder at the same time. This "ups" the tension and curiosity of the reader.

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