First Person Writing That Sells with Adair
Lara
Saturday and Sunday, March 20-21
10 AM to 4:30PM
Starwae, Sonoma. California
This is an opportunity to draw on your own life experience
and find out how to get your work published. Whether you're just
beginning, or have already published, you will enjoy this time with
the author of bestselling books such as Hold Me Close,
Let Me Go, The Granny Diaries, and her newest, Naked, Drunk, and
Writing.
This course has launched hundreds of writers' careers. You will learn
about how to write, rewrite, and sell essays, humor and memoir. Spend
a delightful weekend with other writers in the creative atmosphere
at Starwae.
Classes are held in the studio-home of artists Janice Crow and John
Curry. Delicious and healthy lunches and snacks are served outside
in the garden, weather permitting.
You will learn:
* How to make yourself sit down and start writing
* How to organize your "story arc"
* Where to start..."where the trouble started, then, "Whump,
something happened that changed your life."
* How to write a scene when you need one to illustrate an important
point
* How to write vivid detail that readers will love
* The difference between "factual account" and memoir
* Writing to honor your own life
Praise from students:
"Adair, you helped me land a piece in "O," the Oprah
magazine..."
Christina Bouris
"Without her insightful guidance "Maise Dobbs" might
be just a couple chapters collecting dust in a drawer."
Jacqueline Winspear, author of the Maise Dobbs series
Cost of workshop: $345 if you register before March 6. $395
after.
Includes delicious lunch and snacks, not lodging.
Visa & MC accepted
Call Janice Crow 800 793-4792 to register, or email crow@starwae.com
There are no rooms available at Starwae
Below is a list of nearby lodging for those who are coming from
out of town.
Sonomabb.com shows a selection of lovely Bed and Breakfast inns.
The Sonoma Valley Inn is a Best Western. Their phone number is
707 938-9200.
The El Pueblo Inn is also nice. Their phone number is 800 900-8844
Sonoma Creek Inn is very nice, and slightly less expensive.
888 712-1289
The towns of Petaluma, Napa and Novato are only
20 minutes from Sonoma, and they have nice motel chains such as
Travelodge, Best Western, Quality Inn, Dollar Inn, etc
Lots more at Adairlara.com
97 Scott Street San Francisco, CA 94117
Starwae Inn
800 793-4792
Travel Writing that Sells with John Flinn
April 17-18 10 AM to 4:30 PM
Starwae, Sonoma California
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Spend a lively and supportive weekend
learning travel writing from veteran travel editor John Flinn.
Whether you’re new to
professional writing or have been published, you’ll learn
how to turn your travel experiences into magazine and newspaper
articles that sell.
John edited the award-winning San Francisco Chronicle Travel Section
for 14 years and is a winner of a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel
Journalist of the Year from the Society of American Travel Writers.
His writing has appeared in Outside Magazine, Sunset, VIA, Coastal
Living, Climbing, and numerous anthologies, including “Travelers’ Tales:
Tuscany” and “Not So Funny When It Happened.”
John’s students have been published in National Geographic
Travel, Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Travel, National Geographic
Adventure, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
“I have taught travel writing with John Flinn many times. He is
clear, sensitive, sometimes even wise and he often uses humor to make his most
important points. John is the teacher I wish I had had many
years ago.”
–Tim Cahill,
author of “Jaguars
Ripped My Flesh,” “Pecked to Death by Ducks,” “Hold
the Enlightenment” and other adventure travel classics.
“John completely demystified the process of travel writing.
I walked into his class having never sold a single travel article.
A year later, I'd sold 30.”
– Janis Cooke Newman, author
of “Mary,” and “The
Russian Word for Snow.”
Classes are held in the studio-home of artists Janice Crow and
John Curry. Delicious and healthy lunches and snacks are served
outside in the garden, weather permitting.
You will learn:
*How to travel as a writer, rather than as a tourist.
*Where to discover the images and anecdotes that capture the essence
of a place.
*How to bring a place alive on the page.
*How to write an opening that will hook readers.
*A basic framework that takes much of the fear and frustration
out of writing.
*The new non-narrative style many magazines are using.
*How to successfully pitch your stories to editors.
Cost of workshop: $345 if you
register before March 6. $395 after.
Includes delicious lunch and snacks, not lodging.
Visa & MC
accepted
Call Janice Crow 800 793-4792 to register, or email crow@starwae.com
There are no rooms available at Starwae
Below is a list of nearby lodging for those who are coming from out of
town.
Sonomabb.com shows a selection of lovely Bed and Breakfast inns.
The Sonoma Valley Inn is a Best Western. Their phone
number is 707 938-9200.
The El Pueblo Inn is also nice. Their phone number is 800 900-8844
Sonoma Creek Inn is very nice, and slightly less expensive.
888 712-1289
The towns of Petaluma, Napa and Novato are only 20
minutes from Sonoma, and they have nice motel chains such as Travelodge,
Best Western, Quality Inn, Dollar Inn, etc.
SARK's Succulent Wild Wisdom Workshop
Live Abundantly in Love, Work & Creativity, No Matter What Your
Circumstances
Saturday and Sunday May 8-9 10AM - 4PM
Starwae Sonoma, California |
| You are creatively and abundantly gifted and this
workshop will support you in knowing it, claiming it and living an
even more succulent wise life. It's not what happens to
you, it's what you do with what happens to you.
Succulent; Ripe, juicy, whole, round, exuberant, wild, rich,
wide, deep, rare. A succulent is also a plant that receives its nourishment
from the inside- it gathers water and then nourishes itself. It is self-sufficient
and self-sustaining, and offers great beauty and usefulness to the world.
This workshop will focus on 3 succulent areas of life:
Love
* self-love; how true self-love expands our capacity for love in all
directions
Work
* succulent work; how the work you do can more fully nourish who you
are
Creativity
* active creativity; how a daily creative practice feeds everything
else you do and are
We will gather wisdom together in the following ways:
* Mentoring pairs: you will be guided in a simple yet deep process of
mentoring each other and providing you with marvelous new perspectives
and an inspired plan of action
* Solution-finding: we will utilize the group wisdom to answer your specific
questions until you are leaping with enthusiasm
* Support-building: you will learn and experience how to teach others
to support you, and new ways to support yourself
* Game playing: you will play and experience the SARK game "creative
dreams made REAL" to solidify your creative ideas
* Guidebook creating: you will create a guidebook in the workshop, containing
the wisdom gathered, for you to utilize and continue to put into motion
in your life
Cost of workshop: $345 if you register before April 8. $395 after.
Includes delicious lunch and snacks, not lodging.
Visa & MC accepted
Call Janice Crow 800 793-4792 to register, or email crow@starwae.com
Recommended Reading:
Succulent Wild Woman
Juicy
Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting
the World with Your Words and Stories and Creating the Time and
Energy to Actually
Do It
Fabulous
Friendship Festival: Loving Wildly, Learning Deeply, Living
Fully with Our Friends;
Make
Your Creative Dreams REAL,
A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who
Would Rather Sleep All Day
Prosperity
Pie: How
to Relax about
Money and Everything Else
SARK's
New Creative Companion, Ways
to Free Your Creative Spirit
Eat
Mangoes Naked, Finding
Pleasure Everywhere and Dancing with the Pits!
SARK'S
TransformationExper!ence, eProgram
SARK's
Juicy Journaling, eProgram
Magical
Journeys with SARK, eProgram
SARK’s
Awesome Anytime Adventure
There are no rooms available at Starwae
Below is a list of nearby lodging for those who are coming
from out of town.
Sonomabb.com <http://Sonomabb.com/> shows
a selection of lovely Bed and Breakfast inns.
The Sonoma Valley Inn is a Best Western. Their phone number is 707 938-9200.
The El Pueblo Inn is also nice. Their phone number is 800 900-8844
Sonoma Creek Inn is very nice, and slightly less expensive. 888 712-128
The towns of Petaluma, Napa and Novato are only 20 minutes from Sonoma, and
they have nice motel chains such as Travelodge, Best Western, Quality Inn,
Dollar Inn, etc.
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