Keep Going: 10 Weeks to a More Resilient Writing Life

10 wks, MONDAY May 5 – SUNDAY July 13

Hybrid course – Course content posted week to week on Wet.Ink plus optional one hour weekly live meetings on Google Meet for class discussion and some sharing. (Time determined by class vote before Week 1 begins.)

$500, 10 week course standalone

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$600, 10 week course plus Jumpstarts for May + June + July

How can a poet shore up their writing life in times that try a person’s soul? We need to connect to our muses more than ever when times are tough, but it’s often hardest to do when we feel depleted!

In this class, you’ll examine your creative process through a series of activities and experiments designed to strengthen your relationship with your muse, to connect with mentor texts, and expand your literary community, whether it’s via engagement with our class, or empowering you to seek out more frequent connections with writers outside our classroom. Each week we’ll be guided by Austen Kleon’s book, Keep Going, (required) along with other brief supplemental materials. You’ll be encouraged to discuss your process, post discoveries and share new work (optional) without intense feedback. (Cheering each other on in response is encouraged, but no critiques necessary.) By the end of class, you’ll have a few more strategies for sailing your creative ship into clear sailing or the stormy seas of the next four years and beyond.