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Fearless Writing™: the map that gets you there
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A participatory, experiential workshop, supportive yet challenging,
Fearless Writing™ was
developed
more than fifteen years ago by Crescent Dragonwagon
(left, photo Susan Storch). The
seminar is exhilarating, audacious, useful and individual.
As you map the creative process with CD, you'll clarify where you are
at present, where you want to go, and how you might
get there.
Fearless Writing™ is for you, whether you're an experienced professional, an "I've always
wanted to write but..." or someone active in non-writing
disciplines. (artistic and otherwise) who wants to find a new
edge, surprise yourself, and push your limits. Those who
have taken it include novelists, poets, screenwriters, truck-drivers,
songwriters, doctors, a weaver/sheep-farmer, children's book authors,
cookbook writers, housewives, innkeepers, professors, book reviewers,
teachers, and advertising executives. The mix of folks and professions
in a typical Fearless strengthens the group.
Find out what a Fearless is like.
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you can't drive with the emergency brake on
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Why
is the act of writing often uncomfortable? Why are the ideas and
sentences we form mentally frequently so much clearer than what comes
out on paper? What keeps us from finding, and writing in
the true and distinctive voice we may sense as present but elusive
within ourselves?
What's happening when we feel
blocked or tense, when we procrastinate? How can writing
become easier, less painful? Might both the process and end result
of writing be instead energizing, habitual, natural, and filled with
clarity and surprise both for writer and (eventually) reader?
Hundreds of writers and would-be writers, in all genres, who have taken
Fearless Writing™ have found the answers to these
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less angst, more ease
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Through the direct experience of
self-discovery and writing which take place in this exhilarating
workshop, attendees gain a profound, but practical,
usable understanding of how the
art, craft, habits, and practice of
writing intersect, and
where and how they may be stopping themselves. With the individually
self-developed tools and strategies to act on this knowledge lastingly,
writing and other creative acts do not end with the workshop, but can
naturally become part of every day.
Get a Schedule of
Workshops.
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your fearless leader
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Crescent Dragonwagon, described by
the Chicago Tribune as "an earthy, yarn-spinning woman," is the
author of over 40 published books. Her second novel, THE YEAR IT RAINED,
was a New York Times Notable Book. Her fifth cookbook, PASSIONATE
VEGETARIAN, won a James Beard Award. Her fourteenth and seventeenth
books for children, HALF A MOON AND ONE WHOLE STAR and HOME PLACE,
received, respectively, the Coretta Scott King Award and the Golden Kite
Award.
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Fearless Writing™
in Italy
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In 2003, CD added a new dimension to
Fearless Writing™
when she brought the
workshop to Emilia-Romangna, Italy, and incorporated culinary touring
and hands-on study. In this generous country, inner discovery
melds seamlessly with outer exploration, as mornings of writing give way
to afternoons in the Italian countryside. Sensual, intimate
travel, with an emphasis on culinary experience in the context of
culture and agriculture, open out intoxicatingly family
farmhouse kitchens, orchards, farms, and vineyards. Crescent's style
combines yet contrasts with of our delightful Italian hosts,
Marcello & Raffa.
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"Crescent Dragonwagon's Fearless Writing course
is both inspiring
and original. I loved it, and have recommended it
often, to both
established and aspiring writers. "
--- Julia Child, author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking
(among much else)
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Like the ideas here? Want to know more about your fearless leader?
Visit dragonwagon.com, for
a fuller bio of Crescent's work and life. Or, delve more deeply into
one of her books, a James Beard Award-winning culinary memoir at
passionatevegatarian.com. |
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- E-mail
- for more workshop information:
info@fearlesswriting.com
for more information on Fearless in Italy:
info@bluone.com
to register for American workshops:
patti@fearlesswriting.com
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