Writing Intensive with Deena Metzger
Writing Intensive with Deena Metzger
Pine Mountain, CA (Los Angeles area)
May 24-30, 2008
This workshop is for a small group of people who will gather
to devote themselves to their work, that is to the work. The structure of the
week will include directed writing, reading to each other, dream telling,
meditation, silence, solitude, teaching, questioning, daring, ritual,
ceremony....
Writing is a sacred act of conscience because the writer has
been given the gift — stories, insight, vision, images and words — on behalf of
the community. In accepting and using these gifts, the writer has profound
responsibilities to herself, community, and Spirit; she must proceed with
consciousness and ethical reflection because writing creates culture. Words are
sacred: what we say, how we say it, to whom we speak, these are urgent
considerations. We cannot be innocent or shy about our gifts and wisdom and
must step forward to meet the urgencies of this time if we are to help create
the kind of world we truly wish to live in, if we are to imagine a Story with a
future.
This is a retreat for serious and experienced writers, both men and women. The work is difficult, arduous, often risky, engaging, beautiful and thrilling. Though you will be guided, it is expected that you are also self-motivated and will come prepared to devote yourself to what concerns and fascinates you, to what is calling to be written, particularly in these times. We will work in prose, but the workshop lends itself to writing in any form, fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry.
Comments