Novelist, TV Writer, and Writing Teacher
Two weeks ago Studio West, Sherman Oaks was filled with the magic of Amy Ferris and all the fearless women who wrote their truth in Amy’s HerShops. Yesterday Studio West hosted the glorious yoginis and writers taking The Alchemy of Healing, a gentle yoga/writing workshop (with Ann Braden and me.) Ain’t life grand?! (More photos to come)
Imagine my surprise when I was sent this link to an article: A Blogger’s Guide to Working with a Writing Group. From ‘Food Bloggers of Canada.’ Yeah, I know. Huh? Now imagine my surprise when I scrolled down this very informative article about joining a writing group and found Slipper Camp extolled by one of my Slipper Campers, a gorgeous writer, Nicki Gilbert,
columnist and sometime food blogger who used one of my prompts from Slipper Camp – Love – to write about food. Yes, it took me a while to get from point A to point B but now that I did, I’m so grateful to Nicki Gilbert,
Dianne Jacob, who included SC and Jena Schwartz, whose online writing camp is also mentioned. Writers helping writers. That’s what we’re all about. Enjoy this article and yes, you writers, get thee to a writing group, online or in-person. It’s the best.
Click the link to see the whole article :).
Once upon a time I lived in Fishkill, NY, up a half mile dirt road in a white house with green shutters on 250 acres of rolling meadows, pine forests and a peach orchard. We planted a 40 x 40 ft garden that I grew from seeds I started in flats like these on the windowsill. I canned and froze all our veggies for the year. We kept bees and harvested 60 lbs of peach honey. We tapped our sugar maple trees and boiled the clear maple sap for a week until it turned into golden maple syrup. And the ceiling in the kitchen buckled from all that boiling. We heated our house with wood stoves and I taught at a Summerhill school before writing music for movies. Oh, and I grew a blue-eyed baby named Evan Sugerman, seen here in 1977, the baby bump in my overalls. My once upon a time life. Oh, how I loved it. #hippiestyle#evansugerman #onceuponatime #livingontheland
A mind, body, spirit workshop byAUTHOR/WRITING TEACHER: LINDA SCHREYER
and
GENTLE & THERAPEUTIC YOGA TEACHER: ANN BRADEN
on Saturday, October 1, 2016 from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen
“The Alchemy of Healing” was inspired by the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.
Through a powerful blend of meditation and movement accessible to everyone, writing exercises, group sharing, and discussion we will dive deep into the stories that live inside us and are waiting to be told.
Linda and Ann invite you to move, breathe, laugh, and write, using your mind, body, and spirit in this enlightening workshop.
There will be a delicious catered lunch provided by
Executive Chef Daniel Marcus of Sequoia Catering Company (www.sequoiacateringcompany.com).
Please join us for an inspiring experience that stays with you long after you return home.
Tuition for the day: $200.
Includes food for the goddesses, a catered lunch by Sequoia Catering.
Accept your invite by September 10th and you will receive additional information as soon as you RSVP
Space is limited to 10 people
Info about Linda and Ann:
Linda Schreyer has taught writing classes for the past 20 years. She is a produced television/screen writer and novelist (“Tears and Tequila.”) She has held staff writing positions on General Hospital, Port Charles, Sunset Beach (for which she received a Writers Guild Award nomination) and The Bold and the Beautiful; co-wrote television movies A Place at the Table (for which she received a Christopher Award and an Ollie Award) and A House of Secrets and Lies ; wrote the original screenplay, Ohmigod! for Touchstone Productions. She was sent to Moscow by Sony Pictures Television to teach Russian writers to write for serial television. In 2014 her first novel was published to rave reviews. It is now in development as a television series. You can find her at www.lindaschreyer.com.
Ann Braden started practicing yoga in the early ’90’s “with my big hair-sprayed bangs.’’ She has taught yoga for the past 14 years. She is registered as an E-RYT500 and is a proud member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), with certifications from Loyola Marymount University, YogaWorks, Yoga of the Heart and from Sherry Brourman, author of Walk Yourself Well. Her personal experience with breast cancer led her to seek specialty certifications to share yoga with others who have been touched by cancer. She has led yoga workshops, focusing on breath and movement to strengthen, stretch and tune into each individual’s innate healing capacity. Her ability to create community in her classes, her kind and caring nature and her great sense of humor have made Ann a beloved yoga teacher in Los Angeles.www.lovetreeyoga.com.
Here is an actual prompt from my Slipper Camp – Love (which has had over 40 students so far).
Every other day I send out three prompts for my slipper campers to choose from (and below is an example of one).
1. PROMPT: GO AND LOVE SOMEONE…
These words speak to me of the best possible version of love. Perhaps you’ve experienced that. Perhaps you haven’t and long for it. You might write about having loved someone exactly as they are. No ifs ands or buts. You might write about watching that person become empowered because of your seeing and appreciating them in their essence. It could be a lover, a friend, a spouse, child, grandchild, whoever. If that’s how the quote hits you, please write about a specific moment with that person. A moment when you knew your love was lighting them up. OR…. You might write about a moment when someone else loved you that way. Tell us about that. Or perhaps you haven’t been loved that way or loved someone else like that. You might write about a moment when you longed for that kind of love and didn’t experience it. These words are an open door. The beginning of our exploration into love you’ve given, gotten or longed for.
If you decide to write on this prompt please make your writing specific, not general, using moments with sensory details to tell your story.
How to use a prompt? The way to use a prompt in your writing is to look at the words, close your eyes, and keep them closed until a story, image, memory or first line emerges. Then open your eyes and begin to write. A prompt is an open-ended offering, meant to be translated and used by each of us in our own unique way. You may create a poem, a story, a list, a memory, a fiction, a haiku, a letter, a portrait, anything you like.
Linda Schreyer 