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Write Now!
A Speedy Journaling Workshop

For just a little while — forget patterned paper; forget ribbon and misting spray and alphabet rub-ons. Put aside your cardstock collection; neglect your obsession with embellishments. Just for four fast weeks, think about another scrapbooking medium: words. They're just as powerful an artistic force as the latest scrapbooking product. They add color, texture, depth and detail to your layouts. More important, they add story and meaning.

Words are what turn our collections of photos and embellishments into scrapbook layouts.

Write Now! is a class about using words well. Not only well — quickly. It's based on Amy Sorensen's writing philosophy: with just a bit of coaching, anyone can learn to write strong scrapbook journaling. Journaling that makes you feel, think, or wonder; makes you giggle, or shake your head in agreement, or get a little chill because it's that good. We all recognize strong journaling when we read it. It doesn't have to be very long, maybe just five or six sentences, but the word choice and arrangement hold so much energy and preciseness (and maybe a little bit of emotion, too) that nothing else is needed. Call it zippy journaling. Or writing that's full of energy. Slim and trim, without an ounce of extra wordiness — the kind of journaling that draws your visual attention and then completely catches your emotional focus. You read the journaling and think I wish I could write like that.

Write Now! will show you how.

This speedy workshop brims with techniques to help you create journaling that is small on time and big on impact. Learn how ten minutes a day can turn you into a journaling virtuoso. Gain access to journaling concepts, techniques and approaches that you can use on nearly any layout imaginable. Most important, discover a new aspect of your journaling self. Your confidence in your ability to write something meaningful will blossom. The tools and techniques you'll learn will help make you a pro at the art of the quick write. You'll end up with the ability to write something meaningful on all of your layouts, no matter how little time for journaling you have.

ABOUT AMY:
Amy's writing philosophy will change your approach and even, your feelings about journaling. She's built a life that revolves around words by doing everything from writing articles for Simple Scrapbooks and Scrapbooks Etc. to teaching high school English, writing essays to obsessing (just a little) over books. She developed the writing approaches in Write Now! based on her belief that everyone can write great journaling and on her skill at doing it quickly. She's dedicated to the idea that if you're going to go to the effort of writing something, you might as well make it good. But she knows how valuable (and limited!) your time for journaling is. So she's also dedicated to showing you how tell your stories without spending too much time on them.



Listen to Amy's introduction of Write Now!:

Amy's class includes:

  • Weekly reminder emails to help you stay focused on the class
  • Interactive voice messages as streaming audio, downloadable MP3 files, and transcripts
  • Weekly welcome letters to students
  • Downloadable PDF handouts
  • Daily notebook writing prompts via email
  • Creative assignments to help you apply what you're learning
  • Classroom blog with writing tips, information, and challenges
  • Weekly Write Like a Writer, Writer's MO, and Think of it This Way features
  • Private posting gallery to share your work with other students
  • Message board for interaction with Amy and other students
  • Live instructor chat
  • Email access to Amy, including one-on-one writing conferences

Taught by: Amy Sorensen
Class Duration: 4 Weeks
Start Date: August 4, 2011
End Date: August 31, 2011
Price: $25.00
Registration Begins: Registration has closed.
Registration End: Registration will close August 10, 2011 at 10:00pm.

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