A new class begins and I take a fall

Next Tuesday will be my second class on Zoom for the spring session. 

Read more about it here.

A writing Class I taught some years ago

I am grateful for all the people I have met and still communicate with years later. After taking writing classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School and then teaching there, my contact list is brimming with names of men and women who are dear to me. At Tri-County Community College, which is near where I live, I met locals who want to learn the best way to write and share their stories. From 1996 until a couple of years ago, TCCC was a big part of my life. The pandemic shut down our Community classes there as well as any face-to-face classes. Although I miss those days, I like my Zoom classes. I enjoy teaching a man who lives in South Dakota and learning about his life. One of my students in the present class lives far away from where I live, but still, she is in North Carolina.

This has been a difficult week for me with a home accident that slowed me down a bit. I will have ex-rays on Friday to see if I have a fracture, but I have rested and used heat and cold so I feel sure I will be doing better soon.

The weather has been sunny and beautiful, but today was cold and we will have freezing temps this week at night. I guess it is just as well that I can't go shopping for plants and flowers. Far too soon, I'm told. Spring fooled me again.  I think I will wait to start my deck garden until after Mother's Day.

If you like poetry, visit our Netwest Writers to read good poetry by poets who are my friends and fellow writers here in the mountains.

Have a good week and thanks for reading my posts. I love to hear from you.

Write Your Memories into Family Stories

Write Your Memories into Family Stories

with Glenda Beall

Online with Zoom 

To register, contact the Institute of Continuing Learning

 

See the calendar for the winter session Here.

Tuesdays    1:30 pm – 3:30 pm      January 26 – March 2

 (6 Sessions - $20)

Remember: You must be registered for a class 5 days prior to the class starting in order for the ICL office to process your registration and invite you to the meeting

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In this six week course, we will concentrate on our five senses. 

When our readers feel or smell something in our stories, it creates a deeper emotional feeling. As writers, we strive to create emotional responses with our words.

We use sight throughout our poems and prose, but if our readers hear what is happening or if they feel the object I hold in my hand, the image is clearer to them. 

My students often tell me how much they enjoy my classes in a classroom and online. I have found that when I have fun in class, I retain more of what was taught. I want to do that for those who attend my workshops. I usually lecture a bit and then my students read their work. We all give feedback so each person receives opinions of what we like, what we would like to know more about, and can ask questions of the writer. 

We are casual, comfortable, and easy-going so no one feels intimidated. My readers, wherever they live, can participate in the Zoom classes. 

When we write about our lives, we open our hearts and let others inside. Lasting friendships are often made in classes such as these.

So, after Christmas when life is back to whatever normal we have now, I will enjoy meeting beginning writers and those who are more experienced but still want to improve their craft. The classes are small. No more than five or six students.

Hope you all are having a wonderful Christmas season and if you don't celebrate the same holidays we have in the USA, celebrate yourself. Celebrate life.