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Slipper Camp – Light in the Dark

Linda

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“Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”

  Those are the words on the Christopher Award I won for creating a movie about hunger in America. They are truer today than ever before.


My next online writing Slipper Camp – Light in the Dark – will inspire you to write about hope, love, and kindness in the world around us. I hope you will be one of the 10 writers who will receive illustrated prompts about Light in the Dark every other morning for 20 days, along with coaching suggestions. You will be writing 1,000 words every OTHER DAY and sending them to me by midnight.

Please join us.
Payment secures your spot.

As always, it’s only open to the first ten writers who sign up.

Starts December 14th an ends January 1st

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Slipper Camp – Impermanence

Linda

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What a nerve-wracking time! I’ve been searching for the next topic for my online Slipper Camp but everything I thought of, I ended up rejecting. Not deep enough. Not relevant enough for today’s world. Then I came upon this photo of a majestic sand castle created at the water’s edge. I marveled at the non-attachment of building such a creation, knowing it would be destroyed by the next wave. That will be the topic of the next online writing Slipper Camp – Impermanence. To live our lives in every moment. To build, to love, knowing that life can change in a moment. Like a beautiful sand castle that’s washed away by the next wave. If you want to write about that online with me, please PM me and we’ll send you details.

Starts November 12th. Limited to 10 writers, five spaces taken already. LOVE!

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Slipper Camp – Kaleidoscope – Updated Date

Linda

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Dear Writers,

I’d like to invite you to my next available Slipper Camp: Kaleidoscope.

Slipper Camp Kaleidoscope: The prompts will be on various topics and deliciously surprising each day. Like a kaleidoscope, no matter how you look at a prompt it will look different from every angle.

As always, it’s only open to the first ten writers who sign up. As always, you can stay home and write in your PJs and slippers. As always, if you enroll you will receive 3 prompts a day (every other day) for 20 days. As always, you will write 1,000 words on a prompt of your choosing and send it to me by midnight the day after you receive it.
Please join us.

PM me for details.
Limit: 10 writers
Starts: September 14th – October 2nd
Please let me know if you’re interested in joining us.
Payment secures your spot.

xoxo
Linda

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Slipper Camp – Kaleidoscope

Linda

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Dear Writers,

I’d like to invite you to my next available Slipper Camp: Kaleidoscope.

Slipper Camp Kaleidoscope: The prompts will be on various topics and deliciously surprising each day. Like a kaleidoscope, no matter how you look at a prompt it will look different from every angle.

As always, it’s only open to the first ten writers who sign up. As always, you can stay home and write in your PJs and slippers. As always, if you enroll you will receive 3 prompts a day (every other day) for 20 days. As always, you will write 1,000 words on a prompt of your choosing and send it to me by midnight the day after you receive it.
Please join us.

PM me for details.
Limit: 10 writers
Starts: September 7th – September 25th
Please let me know if you’re interested in joining us.
Payment secures your spot.

xoxo
Linda

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Slipper Camp – Freedom

Linda

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Dear Writers,

FREEDOM 2020 will be my next online writing Slipper Camp (Starts August 3rd, ends 20 days later.)

FREEDOM. We’ll be writing at a heightened time, a critical time in our lives and the life of this country and the world. We’ll be writing about freedoms we’ve lost and those we still celebrate; freedoms that are denied to us or to others; our personal journeys from slavery to freedom or vice versa; times we’ve longed for freedom for ourselves and others; times we’ve fought for freedom and won or lost.

FREEDOM. There’s so much to write about. Especially now!!
NOTE: A portion of every tuition will be donated to https://joebiden.com/ With 10 Slipper Campers it adds up to a tidy sum!!!

Slipper Camp will be the same format as always – 10 writers will receive 3 illustrated prompts about FREEDOM every OTHER morning for 20 days along with daily writing tips and coaching suggestions.

You’ll be writing 1,000 words (2 pages) on 1 of the 3 daily prompts and sending them to me by midnight every OTHER day. Whenever I get your words I’ll read them. At the end of Slipper Camp we’ll set a one-hour call to talk about your writings.

Hundreds of writers have taken this structured online writing course over the past 10 years. They say the combination of structure and accountability has yielded some of their best writing. Books, screenplays, a play, two novels, memoirs and numerous published articles have been generated in Slipper Camps.

Limited to 10 writers. Please join us.
I’d love to read your words.

– Slipper Camp fills up in a heartbeat so please jump in if this speaks to you. THANK YOU

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Slipper Camp – Love

Linda

With so much turmoil around us, I want to focus on love. How about you?

On June 22, 2020 LOVE will be the subject of the next online Writing Slipper Camp. I hope you will be 1 of 10 writers who will receive 3 illustrated prompts about LOVE every OTHER morning for 20 days, along with daily writing tips and coaching suggestions. You will be writing 1,000 words (2 pages) on 1 of the 3 daily prompts and sending it to me by midnight every OTHER day.

Starts June 22nd/ends July 10th. Over 350 writers/non-writers have taken this structured online writing class since 2011.

Please email me for further details and cost (lspravina21@gmail.com). What the world needs now is love, sweet love.

xoxo
Linda
NOTE: Slipper Camp fills up fast so please sign up if interested.

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Slipper Camp – Times of My Life

Linda

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My next Slipper Camp starts June 8th.
The topic: TIMES OF MY LIFE

In this online writing Slipper Camp, we will be writing about times we’ve loved, lost and longed for. Minutes light and dark and times that are/were just plain ordinary. We will be writing about “’loving every minute of our lives” and about times when we couldn’t do that. Minutes we spent in a tropical paradise with an open book and our morning coffee. Minutes we spent waiting for someone who never came.

You will be prompted to write about it all.

Natalie Goldberg wrote: “Our lives are both ordinary and mythical. We live and die, age beautifully or full of wrinkles. We wake in the morning, buy yellow cheese and hope we have the money to pay for it. At the same time, we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on this earth. We are important and our details are worthy to be recorded.”

Come write with us. You are important and your details are worthy to be recorded.

SLIPPER CAMP TIMES OF MY LIFE:
It will be the same format: 10 writers will receive 3 illustrated prompts about TIMES OF MY LIFE every OTHER morning for 20 days along with daily writing tips and coaching suggestions.

Tuition: PM me for Cost
Limit: 10 writers
Starts: June 8th

Lasts: 20 days (10 days of writing)

Please let me know if you’re interested. Payment secures your spot.
xoxo
Linda

Slipper Camp

Maggie Doyne & BlinkNow Foundation

Linda

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Last night I realized I wanted this Slipper Camp to raise $ for an extraordinary woman’s mission. An extraordinary Mother. Maggie Doyne. She started BlinkNow – and Kopila Valley school – in 2006 in Nepal when she was 19 years old… with her babysitting money! Since then Maggie’s changed the lives of countless women and children through a school, a women’s center, a safe house, and a children’s home. Right now she’s quarantined in Surkhet with 54 of her kids. Slipper Camp Mothers and Daughters will be a fundraiser for them. A portion of every tuition will go straight to BlinkNow.
Here’s Maggie in a piece from CNN. Once you’ve seen it you’ll know why she and her mission are the perfect choice for us.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/world/coronavirus-nepal-food-shortage-quarantined-54-kids-cnnheroes/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1KN_9n3-3HEMQ0ZFcEWoWpdeEiSr_D1USpA97abI3p1Wt_gkz9SYC1xmk

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Slipper Camp: Mothers and Daughters

Linda

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Due to popular demand, Slipper Camp – Mothers and Daughters – is back. It starts Mother’s Day (May 10th) and ends on May 28th! Many mothers and daughters have taken this Slipper Camp together and loved it.

I was inspired to create this Slipper Camp when I studied this photo of my mother and me. At three months old I’m already trying to crawl out of her arms. Eager to see the world. Unwilling to be contained. My mother smiles beatifically, unaware of the restless soul in her arms…

We’ll be writing about ourselves, our mothers and/or mother figures, our daughters-biological or chosen – nieces, goddaughters, stepdaughters or any young woman we mentor. We’ll be exploring the relationship between women of different generations.

As always, you can stay home and write in your PJs and slippers. As always, if you enroll you will receive 3 prompts a day (every other day) for 20 days. As always, you will write 1,000 words on a prompt of your choosing and send it to me. Email me for details at lspravina21@gmail.com.

Only open to the first ten writers who sign up.

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Slipper Camp: Home

Linda

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Could there be a more appropriate topic for the next Slipper Camp? For once in our lives, we will all be home.

Slipper Camp HOME can serve as your journal of this extraordinary time.

Using 20 prompts we will be writing about HOME, good and bad, solace and trap. HOME. A word that holds so much weight.

I hope you will be 1 of 10 writers who will receive 3 illustrated prompts about HOME every OTHER morning for 20 days along with daily writing tips and coaching suggestions. You will be writing 1,000 words (2 pages) on 1 of the 3 daily prompts and sending it to me by midnight every OTHER day. I will read them each day.

COME AND WRITE WITH US!
PANDEMIC PRICING: $150.00

As you know Slipper Camps fill in a flash.