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Slipper Camp: Home

Linda

Slipper Camp: Home

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Dear Writers,

Welcome to the first Slipper Camp on the subject of HOME. I have been contemplating this subject for months as I searched through 100’s of possible prompts to find 30 that spoke to me. And, hopefully, to you. 

HOME.

As the daughter of European refugees who fled the Nazis in Vienna for America in 1938, leaving their families and their whole lives behind to start anew, the concept of home is actually one I’ve always pondered. Now, for the next twenty days, we will explore the notion of home together. 

The idea of home is basic and a breathtakingly universal need.  After her great adventure, Dorothy realized, “There’s no place like home.”

Robert Frost said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Home is supposed to be where the heart is. Home can be a person or a pet or a place or…. you name it.

Whatever your experience, the prompts in this Slipper Camp are designed to guide you through writing 10,000 words about HOME in your own unique way.

Note – I want you to write specifically about the way you feel about home, not about HOME in general. Slipper Camp is not designed for writing impersonal essays. It’s designed for you to write your own story (or to write fiction about characters who are as real to you as the person sitting next to you.)

In all prompts you will be prompted to write one moment at a time. To use original detail in your writing. To be as specific as you can about whatever you write.

I hope you will be 1 of 5 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 and we will talk about your writing at the end of Slipper Camp.

Starts September 15th, Ends October 3rd. Over 400 writers/non-writers have taken this structured online writing class since 2011.

Please email me at lspravina21@gmail.com me for further details or sign up on Facebook.

Can’t wait to read your writings.
xoxo
Linda

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Slipper Camp: Bloodline/Family

Linda

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My next online writing Slipper Camp – Bloodline – begins on the day after Father’s Day, June 21st. I was inspired by this quote: ‘Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands’- Linda Hogan.

We will be writing about our ancestors and our current family. This hits home for me, a daughter of the Holocaust whose family perished in the camps. 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 on Bloodline/Family (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 every other day.

If you want to join Slipper Camp please email me at lspravina21@gmail.com and I’ll send you details. Starts June 21. Ends July 9.

THANK YOU

Linda

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Slipper Camp: Love

Linda

Slipper Camp: Love

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Dear Writers,

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

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 October 1st/ends October 20th. 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.

PM me for details.
Limit: 10 writers
Starts: October 1st – October 20th
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

Slipper Camp: Kaleidoscope

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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: August 9th – August 27th
Please let me know if you’re interested in joining us.
Payment secures your spot.

xoxo
Linda

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Slipper Camp: Mothers and Daughters

Linda
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Due to low attendance, I’ve decided to cancel Grandmas & Grandkids this year and offer Mothers and Daughters in honor of Mother’s Day coming up.

The Fourth Annual Mothers and Daughters Slipper Camp starts on the day after Mother’s Day (May 10th) and ends 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. Please DM me for tuition as payment will secure your spot.

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Slipper Camp – Grandmas & Grandkids

Linda

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Slipper Camp Grandmas and Grandkids starts May 3rd/Ends May 21st. You don’t have be a grandmother to take this online writing course.

This is for grandkids who are close to their grandmas and those who’ve lost them. For grandmas who are close to their grandkids and those who aren’t. It’s for anyone who wants to write about that bond – the good, the bad, the ordinary.

Slipper Camp will be the same format as always: ten writers will receive three illustrated prompts about grandmothers and grandkids every OTHER morning for 20 days along with daily writing tips and coaching suggestions. If you join you will send me 1,000 words by midnight every other day.

Here’s a link to Linda’s story about becoming a grandma… in Bali: https://www.facebook.com/706490956/posts/10157753616460957/?d=n

Starts May 3rd/Ends May 21st
Limit: Ten writers
Payment will secure your spot.
Thank you.

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Slipper Camp – the secrets we carry

Linda

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

The topic: the secrets we carry.

All of us have secrets. In this online writing ‘Slipper Camp’ we will be writing about our secrets, both light and dark, our deepest fears and shames but also our secret strengths. That’s why I love the quote above from Marianne Williamson-that it is our potential and power that frightens us and keeps us small. That perhaps the greatest secret we carry is that of our own magnificence.

It will be the same format: 10 writers will receive 3 illustrated prompts about the secrets we carry every OTHER morning for 20 days along with daily writing tips and coaching suggestions.

Limit: 10 writers
Starts: March 22nd ends April 9th
Please let me know if you’re interested in joining us.
Payment secures your spot.
xoxo
Linda

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Slipper Camp – Wild Card

Linda

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My next online writing Slipper Camp – Wild Card – begins February 1st (through Feb. 21st).

Slipper Camp Wild Card will reflect the changing landscape of 2021. The prompts will be on various topics and deliciously surprising each day. 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.
THANK YOU

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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

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