CELEBRATING LIFE: CREATIVE JOURNALING       

Oct. 18, 19, 20, from 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Instructor: Sandi Baron                                                  Cost: $50

Learn how to quickly assemble life lessons, family stories, and document your truths in a creative journal.  Pass this down to your family to keep those family stories alive.

No time to write a lengthy memoir?  Try Sandi Baron's artful way of recording your favorite stories. You will use colored papers, photos, writing, stamps and even pictures from magazines.  You will like this speedy way to record your personal stories.

Classes will include directions, ideas, journal prompts, and art supplies.  Bring a few favorite photos (copies would be best).  From these photos, you will write the story you would like to pass down to future generations.  Bring your most loved writing pen, and it will dance across your pages recording treasured memories.

About the Instructor:

Sandi Baron’s passion is working with people and coaching them to better understand their giftedness, talents, and interests. Part of that awareness is grounded in creativity. Discovering who you are through creative outlets brings new understanding of self-worth, God’s purpose for our lives, and how to reflect on the past to grow in the future. She enjoys her role as writing and creative coach by laughing, being free, and having fun. Participants leave with a light heart as well as confidence in writing, recording, and creating.

She is currently a retreat leader sharing her writing and creative skills with others, and writes a blog (Sandi’s Impressions) which shares life lessons from everyday life. Sandi taught English and Speech for thirty-three years in local high schools.  She has a B.A. and M.A. from Ball State University, serves on the committee for the Midwest Writers Workshop, and is a member of National League of American Pen Women and Muncie Art Guild. She continues to be a freelance writer and an oil painter. Creativity is her life and passion, and she shares it with contagious exuberance. Lee Baron

Sandi's Impressions

http://sandisimpressions.blogspot.com

Calligraphy Class!

9/29 - 11/3 @ E.B. Ball Center

Thursday nights  7p - 9p

$75 call Nancy @ 285-8975 to sign up

Submitted by Muncie Branch NLAPW member Paula Sullivan, instructor of this session

Manuscript Makeover Opportunity!

Straight from the Midwest Writers Workshop E-PISTLE:

Due to Popular Demand, MWW is offering Manuscript Makeover: October 29 at Ball State Alumni Center,  9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Get individual editing of your work!    

On Saturday, October 29, Midwest Writers will offer a special session of "Manuscript Makeover," the session which sells out first at our MWW summer workshop. MM is an intensive session with Dennis E. Hensley and Holly Miller, held at the Ball State Alumni Center, (Muncie, IN) from 9 am to 3:30 pm. The one-day workshop is limited to 20 participants and costs $125 (and includes a brown bag lunch so the work flow won't be interrupted).Register here! 

This interactive intensive is designed for those fiction and nonfiction writers who are ready to take a quantum leap forward in enhancing their writing skills. Participants will submit the first 10 pages of a manuscript in progress and a one-page synopsis. The instructors will edit and critique these pages and display them (anonymously) to the class as a way of revealing strengths and weaknesses in the material. 

Additionally, the instructors will lead the students in writing exercises and offer advice on such topics as enhancing dialogue, learning to self-edit, mastering proofreading, finding the right markets for manuscripts and knowing when and how to go into writing full-time. After your registration has been received, you will be asked to e-mail the FIRST 10 pages (double-spaced) of your manuscript and a one-page synopsis (single-spaced) by October 10.

Upcoming Event: Ruminate

picture source

Muncie, IN branch president of NLAPW, Judy Urbanski, shared this publication with us recently.

Ruminate is a quarterly magazine that comes from Ft. Collins, CO. Its central focus is to "resonate with the complexity and truth of the Christian faith" (from the website).

You can read the magazine online and submit your writing for consideration for publication. There is also an upcoming Writer's Workshop sponsored by Ruminate on September 10th.