WordPlay: One-Day Retreat at Ragdale
Having trouble staring down the blank page but have stories you want to tell? Interested in experimenting with fiction as well as stories from your life? Or, maybe you just want to write and don't know where to begin.
Join us for this special one-day retreat at the historic Ragdale artists' community.
This workshop will give you exercises to help you get the first words out, and strategies to keep the story flowing. We'll write story beginnings and learn to enjoy the process of starting from a word, image or idea.
Writing prompts and discussions will be tailored to both beginning and more experienced writers.
The day's schedule:
10am to 10:30am: arrive and tour Ragdale
10:30 to 12:30: class time with generative writing prompts and discussion
12:30-1:30: lunch (prepared by Ragdale's Chef Linda, lunch is included)
1:30-2:30: more writing prompts and discussion
2:30-5:00pm: open writing time on the Ragdale grounds
Writer's Roadmap
This is the perfect place to get a taste of StoryStudio Chicago, as well as an excellent course for beginning and intermediate writers writers who need fresh inspiration to get started (or re-started) with their writing.
About the Instructor: Jill Pollack is the founder and director of StoryStudio Chicago. Before creating StoryStudio, Jill worked as a writer and editor for newspapers, magazines, trade periodicals, and political journals. She is the author of three books for young adults: Shirley Chisholm, named a Best Book by Science and Film Magazine; Lesbian and Gay Families: Redefining Parenting in America, and Women on the Hill, a history of women in Congress. Jill also leads the Chicago Literary Alliance to connect our city's great literary organizations. She was recently named #23 in the Newcity Lit Top 50 list of literary leaders in Chicago.
Date/Time: Thursday, September 22, 10am to 5pm
Location: Ragdale, 1260 Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, IL
Course Fee: Non-Member:$110; Member: $100