Creative Writing
Open the door to your own unique voice and vision! Whether you are working on a current project, want to start your first story or poem, or are experiencing writer's block, this course is for anyone who enjoys writing. Through journaling, freewriting, in-class and take-home writing exercises, and sharing your work with your classmates, you will join a community of writers, explore and find new topics to write about, and get the creative juices flowing to stretch yourself as a writer. Tap into your own creativity in a supportive environment. Genres include fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
Offered online and as a grounded weekly workshop (2 hours/class, 4 classes). Please email Paula for current online and grounded offerings and registration information.
The Story of Your Life: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
This course is for anyone who enjoys writing and would like to find deeper meanings in your life's journey. Based on the methods of Dan Wakefield (a former teacher of Paula's), you will join a group of writers as you explore your past and become aware of your journey, which will in turn help you to understand your present. Through in-class and take-home writing exercises and sharing your work with your classmates in a supportive enviornment, you will tap into your own creativity as you also tap into your own spiritual being.
Offered as a grounded weekly workshop (2 hours/class, 6 class sessions). Please email Paula for current grounded offerings and registration information.
Introduction to the Short Story Workshop
Open the door to your own unique style and voice! This intense 4-week course will introduce you to the principles and techniques of writing the short story. Through understanding elements such as language, structure, characterization, and setting and description, you will strengthen your skills and learn to read short stories like a writer. As you share your work with your classmates, you will join a community of writers, explore and find new topics to write about, and get the creative juices flowing to stretch yourself as a writer. Tap into your own creativity in a supportive environment.
Offered online and as a grounded weekly workshop (2 hours/class, 4 class sessions). Includes detailed critiques by Paula. Please email Paulafor current offerings and registration information.
Advanced Short Story Workshop
Open the door to your own unique style and voice as you improve your writing and editing skills and increase your self-confidence as a writer. This intense 4-week course is designed for those with intermediate to advanced writing skills and an understanding of the short story as a genre. Weekly topics include editing and rewriting, theme and imagery, structure and form, and short story sub-genres. As you share your work with your classmates, you will join a community of writers, explore and find new topics to write about, and get the creative juices flowing to stretch yourself as a writer. Tap into your own creativity in a supportive environment.
Offered online and as a grounded weekly workshop (2 hours/class, 4 class sessions). Includes detailed critiques by Paula. Cick here for additional information. Please email Paula for current offerings and registration information.
Writing Workshops
Online and Grounded (live in person)
All classes led by Paula Morell, MFA unless otherwise specified.
Journaling Through Your Journey
Writing to Heal
Invoking Your Muse: Yoga and Writing
with Jan Dean, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist and certified life coach.
Jan has studied & taught Iyengar-style yoga for over 15 years. She can be reached at 663-6894 or yogajan@netzero.net
Give breath to your creativity as you open to the flow of your inner voice. Combining yoga with writing to merge your inner imagination, emotions, and intellect with your outer body, this course is for anyone who wants to transform and deepen your writing experience. You don't have to be an experienced yogi; participants range from first-timers to those who have been practicing for years. Every class is unique; we will center our class around a theme that we work with for both the yoga and the writing. Invoke the inspiration and protection of the Muses as you tap into your own creativity in a supportive environment.
Offered as a grounded 2 hour class OR a 3 hour mini-retreat (includes lunch), Please email Paula for current offerings and registration information.
Creative Nonfiction
Begin a complex journey that focuses on who you are and what you've become. Whether you are writing a memoir for personal exploration or for future reference by family and/or friends, come explore this popular form of non-fiction in a group setting. Begin to create your memoirs as we work through exercises and share your work with your classmates in a supportive environment.
Offered online and as a grounded weekly workshop (2 hours/class, 4 class sessions). Includes detailed critiques by Paula. Cick here for additional information. Please email Paula for current offerings and registration information.
Invoking Your Muse: Touch Drawing and Writing
Merging Deborah Koff-Chapin's incredible Touch Drawing, a simple yet profound process of creating drawings with your fingertips, with intuitive and creative writing, this is a class for anyone who seeks a visual and written record of your inner process. You don't have to be an experienced artist; participants range from first-timers to those who have been painting for years. Invoke the inspiration and protection of the Muses as you tap into your own creativity in a supportive environment.
Touch Drawing is a simple yet profound process. All you do is touch paper that has been placed over a surface of paint. The resulting impressions are seen on the other side of the page. Lines flow directly from your fingertips! No artistic experience is necessary. All materials provided. For additional information and slideshows see:
Offered as a grounded 3 hour class, Please email Paula for current offerings and registration information.
Invoking the Gifts: Writing About Spiritual Gifts
Utilizing Allison McNeill's The Book of Gifts, Invoking the Gifts is a creative writing course that helps you explore your own spiritual gifts through art and writing. As you tap into the deepest parts of yourself, you gain insight into who you are and where you are through your own unique truths. Each week we explore one of the Gifts through meditation, art, writing, and sharing, and your artwork and writings are kept together in the beautiful Student Workbook.
Connect to your spiritual heart and soul and discover these Gifts that await you.
Offered online and as a grounded weekly workshop (2 hours/class, 4 class sessions). Please email Paula for current offerings and registration information.
Invoking the Gifts Facilitator Guidebook is also available for those of you interested in teaching this course yourselves:
