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8 September, 2007

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Writing Through Loss
with Alyce M. Skelton

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COST, LENGTH, PREREQUISITES:

No prerequisites.

Regular course: $150 / 6 weeks. Click here to register

For questions about this COURSE, e-mail Alyce M. Skelton at

Writing Through Loss, a six week writing interactive seminar, will explore a variety of writing techniques to help deal with losses of all kinds. The workshop will incorporate journaling as well as other eclectic writing strategies which will help you access creative energy, work through the grieving and tap into joy.

Week 1:
1. Freewriting intro
2. My expectations of you
3. My view on critiquing and class work (email sheet)
4. Confidentiality and use of logs
5. Reading lists: Goldberg-"freewriting", Progoff- "Steppingstones" !!
6. What is freewrite homework?
First chat: 1. Introductions and sharing goals (chat only)

Week 2:
1. Review of Freewriting/Steppingstones (via email)
2. How can writing help you survive grief?
3. What is next? Dialogues with people.
4. Weekly freewrite exercise.... word salad
5. Progoff--Steppingstones..or "I ams"
6. My goals for class are your goals.
7. Response to freewritings daily
8. Weekly freewrite exercises

Week 3:
1. Steppingstones lists... "times in my life"--honoring the process and leading to dialogues.
2. Where does this process take you?
3. Where can you go with this writing? Brainstorm and Goals

Week 4:
1. On sharing the work....
2. Times and people in my life--the valuable resources
3. Review steppingstone lists and resulting freewrites
4. Review goals and evaluations of students work

Week 5:
1. Finding meaning in losses
2. Dealing with loss by turning real life into fiction.
3. Or do you prefer Non-fiction?? Essays or OP ed pieces?
4. Conversations with people and events, leading to interviewing.

Week 6:
1. Creating my healing through creating personal history.
2. Where has the writing taken you?
3. Surviving Grief-How are we doing?
4. Discussion: Where do you go from here?

Alyce M. Skelton has taught her popular Writing for Fun & Profit © and Writing Through Loss© classes since August 1995 off line and on. Skelton has been teaching writing classes for 17 years prior to becoming an online instructor. Before moving back to the frozen north (NY State) in 2001, Skelton, a freelance writer, President of Writer's Link Communications, had lived for eleven years in Wilmington, NC.

Founder of NC's Cape Fear Writer's and Artists, Skelton had freelanced for Reel Carolina, a movie publication promoting Screen Gems Studio's filming in Wilmington. Prior to moving south, she had been a staff writer for the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and had also written for various publications in Massachusetts.

She is interested in fostering new writing talent and loves to teach writing to people of all ages. In all of her classes she uses teaching techniques that enable people to access their creativity. She has taught related art and writing classes in a variety of locations in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and New York. Some programs include classes taught through Special Programs at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington from 1991-94, St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, as well as classes for the Children's Academy operated by the University.

Her business, Writer's Link, provides writing classes, and copywriting and editing services. Wearing her "Writer's Link" hat, she writes brochures, publicity, scripts and other materials for businesses and individuals, but also conducts eclectic workshops on writing and the visual arts, and edits manuscripts for would be novelists.