Weekly materials cover the neuroscience of how our brains store and process information, and how the act of writing changes our interaction with ourselves more than any other modality can.
This class uses writing as a vehicle rather than a destination. Exercises will guide you as you write your way through your own inner terrain. You will learn to let go and make a glorious mess on your paper as you have conversations with yourself.
Instead of leaving class with honed and polished writing, you will leave with writing you can look back on later to identify the insights and connections that surfaced while you were rambling.
Intuitive Writing gives you a better understanding of your mind, increased confidence to listen to and trust yourself, and new tools to build on your natural strengths and work through your resistance points.
Open to all writing levels, whether first timers or experienced sages.
We tend to fall into the trap of believing that writing rests wholly on the act of putting pen to paper (or sometimes typing). We sequester pockets of time and space where we can sit down without distraction, commune with the inspiration we call the Muse, and allow it to propel our reflection, imagination, and stories.
What we often don’t recognize is that half of the writing process is simply thinking about it outside of our physical writing time. Daily life overtakes us and we gloss over mountains of inspiration that exist all around us.
This course invites you to pay attention — to watch and listen with an open mind, collect tiny field notes, and discover connections that can be carried into your dedicated writing time.
EACH WEEK YOU WILL:
1) Receive a theme word or phrase to plunk into your awareness (you’ll get the first one a week before our first meeting).
2) Go about your week with this guidepost in mind. Collect inspiration like a mad hatter. Snap photos anywhere. Save memes and capture screen shots. Jot down lines from books, music, podcasts, TV, web sites, and overheard conversation. Record snippets of your inner dialogue.
3) Come to class ready to write from prompts that align with the assigned theme. Prompts will be flexible enough for you to interpret and expand them through the lens of the muses you’ve gathered and thought about.
4) At the end of class, a new theme will be assigned and you’ll be off and running with a new guide for the week to come.
We write a bit, then read our writing a bit (if you wish). We share supportive feedback, but do not edit or critique.
Open to all writing levels, whether first timers or experienced sages.
Exercise prompts and formats are continually rotated and added to, so that you can repeat this course on an ongoing basis.
Who gathers to write, class style, at a taproom? We do!
Writing together in person, out in the wild, is a different energy than we get on our usual format of Zoom. Our creative sparks move in new directions when we interact off-screen.
This is a chance to do some hands-on exercises that we can’t do via zoom, and we get to write from people watching, too. Bring your pen, notebook, and sense of laid back play. Please also enact your No Rain Powers so we can enjoy Utepils’ lovely back yard setting that’s much quieter than indoors.
Come early and/or stay late around our dedicated 6:00-7:30 writing time. Enjoy the ruckus of socializing with your comrades, the food truck of the day, and beverages (spirited and unspirited available).
Invite a friend to enroll, too! This format’s vibe and setting is a great opportunity for someone to experience your writing world for themselves without the traditional “in class” feel.
Open to all writing levels, whether first timers or experienced sages.
Exercise prompts and formats are continually rotated and added to, so that you can repeat this course on an ongoing basis.
LOCATION:
Utepils Brewing
(pronounced “OOT-eh-pills”)
225 Thomas Ave North
Minneapolis 55405
Utepils is at the magic “zero” line of the Minneapolis map, where northside and southside writers meet smack in the middle. It is 2 miles west of Target Field downtown, in the NW quadrant of Hwys 94 & 394, at the site of the old Glenwood-Inglewood water plant with its abandoned bottling silos and Minneapolis history. Parking is free (though often sprawling) in a little maze of lots or on the street.
Keep in mind that 394 is a hot mess of construction this summer. The only way in is from Glenwood Avenue, and 394 exit closures may require you to hop on Glenwood farther east or west than usual.
The food truck on June 18 is Sweet Lou’s Meats, in the parking lot 4:00-8:00. Thursdays are a no-events day, so loudspeaker and crowd levels should be low.
For all the news that’s fit to print about Utepils, vist their website:
www.utepilsbrewing.com
(Other dates and locations vary. The “where” of any individual Happy Hour will be shared here when a date is set and enrollment is opened.)
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