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.
As Mother’s Day approaches I think about my own mother and her mother before her. The grandmother I never knew, the gentle woman who died in Auschwitz.
My mother, who escaped with my father, became a motherless daughter when she was only 24. She never got to say goodbye to her mother. And she never got over the loss.
I was raised by a woman with a deep motherwound. A wound she tried to heal by pouring her love into my brother and me. When that didn’t heal her grief she became a painter who poured her sorrow and joy onto canvases of color and light.
I was inspired to create MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS ONLINE WRITING SLIPPER CAMP when I studied this photo of my mother and me.
At three months old I’m trying to leap out of her arms. Eager to see the world. Unwilling to be contained. Looking for something out there, something my mother can’t give me.
My mother smiles tentatively. Her eyes are looking somewhere else, too. Somewhere she longs to be. We can’t connect.
That set the template of our entire relationship.
Five years ago I created 30 illustrated prompts for Mothers and Daughters Online Writing Slipper Camp, a 20 day course. Every year, I rewrite the prompts. Every year I’m blown away by the writings I receive.
I hope you will be one of ten writers who sign up for Mothers and Daughters Online Writing Slipper Camp. It begins the day after Mother’s Day, May 9th, and ends May 28th.
– You will receive three illustrated prompts every other day.
– You will send me 1,000 words on whatever prompt you choose.
– I will read everything you write.
– By the end of Slipper Camp you will have written 10,000 words.
– Then we will talk about your writings.
– It’s only open to the first ten writers who sign up.
– Please PM me for tuition cost and details.
– Payment secures your spot.
** Mothers and Daughters Online Writing Slipper Camp is a fundraiser for mothers and daughters in Ukraine. A portion of every tuition will go to www.Care.com – they are on the ground in Ukraine.
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 February 28th/ends March 18th. 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: February 28th – March 18th Please let me know if you’re interested in joining us. Payment secures your spot. xoxo Linda
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.
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.
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
“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.
I’ve been searching for awhile for the next topic of my online writing Slipper Camp. This one will take us into the the election and past it. (Starting October 29, ending 20 days later.) We will be writing at a heightened time, a critical time in our lives and the life of this country. I don’t need to remind any of us about that. Every topic I thought of I ended up rejecting. Not deep enough to create 30 prompts around at a time like this. Then I came upon this photo. It reminded me of one I took years ago on Fire Island. A photo of a majestic sand castle I found early one morning as the tide was coming in. And I marveled at the non-attachment of building such a creation, knowing it would be destroyed by the next wave. So here’s the topic of the next online writing Slipper Camp – Mindfulness. We’ll be writing about times we’ve lived our lives in every moment. Times we’ve been present even as we’ve built and loved, knowing that life can change in a moment. Like a beautiful sand castle that’s washed away by the next wave. Impermanence. Non-attachment. The circle of life. Hope and faith. Mindfulness. That’s what I’m creating prompts about. I hope you’ll be writing along with me.
It will be the same format as always – 10 writers will receive 3 illustrated prompts about Mindfulness 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 and let you know I got 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 writng course over the past years. The most common comment I hear is that the combination of structure and accountability yields good writing. Books, screenplays, a play, two novels and numerous published articles have been generated in Slipper Camps.
If you want to write online with me, please PM me and we’ll send you details. Starts October 29. Limited to 10 writers, 5 spaces taken already.
Linda Schreyer 