#WritingGoals

Set your intentions for 2022.

Have you made your 2022 writing resolutions yet? Now is the time to think about your goals. What do you want to achieve by the year’s end?

Say your goals out loud and set your intentions.

Got ’em? Okay, now you need to take steps to reach your goals. How? We are here to help.

Step 1: First things first. Clearly visualize your goals. To do that, you need a vision board.

Vision Board Workshop
Create and experience the life you’ve envisioned.
In this one-day workshop, entrepreneur and author Pamela A. Major uses her popular Viral Vision Adventure program to help you create a personal vision board. Through journal exercises and prompts, you learn tips, tools, and strategies to visualize your dreams so that you can attain them. Learn more & register.

Step 2: Next, you need a plan.

Do you want to start writing? Or are you ready to revise a manuscript? Whatever your writing goals, we can help. Find your writing goal below to see what classes and events we offer that can help you accomplish it.

Explore Your Creativity

Make 2022 your year to deepen your creative pursuits.

Dance your way to inspiration.

Dance My Story!
Play, dance, and create!
This is a parent/caregiver & me class for children up to age 6. In this class, we create stories through movement with relaxing breathing exercises, followed by easy-to-follow dance suggestions to image-evoking music. Learn more & register.

Dance Your Way to Writing
Get moving! Get writing!
We begin with breathing exercises and a warm up and move our bodies to music. Then, we work with inspiring prompts that help us generate new writing for our current projects. Learn more & register.

Connect to a creative force.

Choosing the Artist’s Path
Connect with your creativity.
Using Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity as a guidebook, you develop your personal creativity and explore your connection to an artist force greater than yourself. Learn more & register.

Write your way to self-care.

Write For You
Relax, write, and bring more joy into your life.
Write For You explores writing as a means of self-care. In a safe, supportive environment, you uncover your creative self through guided meditation, inspiring texts, and prompts. Learn more & register.

Start Writing

Make 2022 your year to start or generate more writing.

Just Write
Develop as a writer.
Just Write is aimed at the shy, closeted, or new writer. In a safe, supportive environment, we invite you into the storytelling mindset with the help of guided writing prompts. Learn more & register.

Lunchtime Write-In
Spend your lunch break writing with us.
Join us for one hour of instructor-led writing time. Each Friday, we provide three timed prompts based on a different theme. We leave time at the end of class to share your work if you choose. Learn more & register.

Write Your Memoir

Make 2022 your year to tell the stories you’ve been itching to write down.

Memoir
Write the story you were meant to tell.
During this course, we discuss how to find the moments that resonate with readers and turn them into a compelling narrative. Analyzing mentor texts, we explore concepts such as story arc, voice, purpose, and emotional resonance. We also spend time workshopping to help you strengthen your voice and style.

This course is offered at two times:
– Learn more & register for Wednesday’s Memoir class.
– Learn more & register for Thursday’s Memoir class.

Memoir Writing Intensive
Take your stories to the next level.
In this class, we explore the emotional truth in your experiences and then experiment with the best form to convey your story. We read mentor texts in a variety of genres to analyze the narrative techniques an author utilizes—such as characterization, voice, imagery, and structure—and the achieved effect on the reader. Learn more & register.

Book Inc: Memoir Incubator
Complete a 50,000-word manuscript by the end of the year.
The Memoir Incubator is a year-long program to guide and support memoir writers from their initial story ideas to the completion of their manuscripts. You must apply and be accepted to register for this program. Learn more.

Write Your Screenplay

Make 2022 your year to write a film or TV script! Our Screenwriting Academy offers the programs to get you started.

Script Clinic
Do you have a completed screenplay and are looking for valuable, thoughtful peer feedback?
The Script Clinic is dedicated to helping writers produce healthy, vibrant, dynamic screenplays. We’ve created a diagnostic system based on the coverage elements Hollywood script readers and development execs use to rate and rank submissions. Learn more & register.

Screenwriting Yearlong Incubator
From initial concept to completed script in one year!
In this yearlong program, we take you from an initial concept to a completed first draft. We focus on helping you achieve artistic excellence while honing your craft skills. You are taught the importance of industry script notes and learn to receive and provide constructive feedback that supports and expands, rather than inhibits, your creative process. Learn more & register.

Write Poetry

Make 2022 your year to discover the poet within.

Poetry
Discover and play with language in a supportive environment.
Each week we analyze a poet and discuss craft points and elements. By responding through our writing, we strengthen our own creative abilities. The goal is to produce work that moves you to a new understanding of your obsessions and talents as a writer. Learn more & register.

Write a Novel

Make 2022 the year to get your story out of your head and onto paper.

Book Inc: Novel Incubator
Complete a 50,000-word manuscript by the end of the year!
The Novel Incubator is a yearlong program to guide and support novel writers from their initial story ideas to the completion of their manuscripts. You must apply to register for this program. Learn more.

Get Published

Make 2022 your year to unleash your writing to the world!

PWN Coaching, Consulting, or Editing
Get ongoing support, encouragement, accountability, and feedback.
Whether you have a story to tell but you’re not sure where to begin or you have a work-in-progress that needs feedback and editing, we offer several services tailored to your needs. Learn more.

The Keys to the Query
Present your book in the very best light.
Ready for a literary agent? In The Keys to the Query, you learn to write a query letter that moves your book forward on the path to publication. Learn more & register.