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Write your first draft in a 6+ workshop
What’s a 6+ workshop?
Right now you have enough stories in your head to write a great first draft telling the story of one person’s life (your mother, your grandmother or grandfather etc). The challenge to getting that written has always been:
· First: believing that you know enough to start writing and sitting down to do it
· Second: not getting lost or overwhelmed in all the memories and emotions
· Third: sticking with the story until the story is done. Not when you get tired.
All this is accomplished in the 6+ workshop!
In one 6 hour day you will plough through all that resistance you hold, you’ll do some memory inducing exercises, and, getting your courage up and putting your fear to one side, WRITE YOUR FIRST DRAFT. No more thinking, agonizing or worrying about it.
Once you have your first draft, you’re ready for work not worry. You’ll have discovered what you don’t know, and you’ll be ready to check facts, edit anecdotes, debate what you’ve said in the scary bits, and clarify, clarify, clarify.
A few weeks after that full day (TBD by each workshop), we will meet again for 2 hours to hear what people have written, get feedback, and celebrate our good stories well told. That’s the +!
Reading your story to others and hearing their stories is the best part of this workshop.
You may think this project is all about you and your mother but it’s in the hearing and sharing of stories that we experience how amazing our stories really are and how valuable they are to the human race. Women all over the world and throughout history have given birth to babies and it’s stunning to realize each of them has a different story. Wow!
SCREEECHHHHH!!!!!!
Our workshops just got better.
The workshops we are leading now will set people up to possibly submit 2 stories for the GENERATIONS book. So we have opened the criteria for our workshops as well.
Generations looks at 3 generations of a family through the telling of 2 family stories. So that means you start with a story OF ANYONE!
What’s the life story you really want to tell? Your grandmother? Your motherinlaw? Your father? We will work following the same writing recipe as used in this project but YOU DO NOT NEED TO WRITE ABOUT YOUR MOTHER.
Once you have one story written, think about who will be the subject of your second story…?
If you have already written your mother’s story this is your chance to investigate other story lines in your family. In these workshops we will be discussing the intricacies of intergenerational influences – trauma, genetics, personalities, the effects of fame and fortune. We will also discuss how to split the facts of a family story into two 2000 stories.
If you want your stories to be considered for the GENERATIONS book, you have to take a workshop.
If you have some people who want to write your stories together (work mates, book club, family members) we can give you a custom made live or online experience. Just let us know your needs.
WORKSHOPS SUMMER 2025 (all online)
- “Light touch” – one workshop and one follow-up session (for those who want a meaningful experience and guidance for creative narrative output but do not necessarily plan to publish or write a story ‘pairing’ for GENERATIONS) = $349 CAD (+GST for Canadians)
- “Full Story Package” – if you’re writing one story and adding another. This will be the workshop above but add TWO follow-up sessions (full story process takes longer/typically more than one follow up) plus a 1-hour editing session = $500 CAD (+ GST for Canadians)
- Contact Michelle today to sign up: mhohn@akashiccommunications.com
with Marilyn Norry
June 21, 2025 9am to 3pm (Pacific)
- Contact Marilyn today to sign up: mothersstory@gmail.com
More dates will be added so contact us if you have other dates that better suit your schedule.