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November 13, 2009
The Ultimate Creative Writing Workshop
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Category: Creative Writing Books
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The Ultimate Creative Writing Workshop Elizabeth Ayres
Unleash Your Creative Writing Gifts with This Proven Workshop: For aspiring writers, few experiences offer the thrill of a well-taught creative writing workshop: imagine the surge of fresh ideas filling your mind, exercise by exercise, as you absorb the skills of the craft almost effortlessly. Now you can experience this unmatched way of learning—at your own convenience—with Elizabeth Ayres’ The Ultimate Creative Writing Workshop. Distilled from her acclaimed courses at New York University and the Center for Creative Writing, this proven program has already helped hundreds of writers to break through their inner obstacles, unleash their imaginations, and master the skills they need to communicate those images and ideas powerfully through words. The key to success, teaches Ayres, is to use both your creative and analytical gifts in a fun and engaging way. The Ultimate Creative Writing Workshop helps you do that through a series of methods so effective that nearly all of Ayres’ students find themselves writing nonstop—from the very first exercise. Join this celebrated writing teacher to learn: • How to generate a limitless source of ideas and inspiration • How to use your five senses to get unstuck and discover the stories, poems, and plays you’ve been wanting to write • How to stop worrying about structure and start writing to the “natural shape” of your works…plus dozens of other fast-paced tools to help you get going right away If you’ve been wanting to jumpstart your imagination and take your craft to the next level, here’s the perfect course— Elizabeth Ayres’ The Ultimate Creative Writing Workshop.
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A wonderful tape series on the act of writing. Elizabeth Ayres shares her stories and her poems. The exercises are concrete and original. A complete writing course on audio cassette.
Rating: 5 / 5
To be blunt, I was highly skeptical, but as I listened to the tapes over this past weekend, I began to appreciate their value. The exercises seem deceptively simple; at times, you want to throw down you pen and bang you hand on the table and proclaim, “what the hell is this about.”
Simply put, these exercises allow you to begin to tap into the right brain . . . the creative side of the mind. Examples of this include writing with the non-dominant hand, working with an ‘idea compass,’ and other examples of working with ‘process work’ from which themes and then images are obtained. Some of the goals here are to inject emotion into your work, jump start a stalled work.
Ayers concludes by looking at the import of sounds of words with inflection points, accent points and the like. She’s a poet by trade, but the import of what she lectures on can be applied to standard fiction and even more technical writing. This is a unique course on creative writing; you will not find anything quite like it anywhere. Approach it with an open mind–even if you’re a natural skeptic.
Rating: 5 / 5
“Creative self-expression is the birthright of each and every human being dwelling on the planet.” ~Elizabeth Ayres
Elizabeth Ayres is a guide for writers seeking to access undiscovered areas of their writing potential. She guides writers through creative exercises where you will stop the tapes and create pieces of writing you can analyze and work with in this program. Her cheerful personality is encouraging and she has a unique way of drawing out your own artist.
This is truly “your very own writing workshop.” If you want to write a journal or stories, Elizabeth Ayres will explain how to write from a variety of perspectives. There are fun ideas for integrating writing into your life and moments for reflection.
The twelve sessions 6 tapes/9 hours include:
Jumping into Creative Writing
Imaginative Layering
Purpose and Perspective
Finding the Common Thread
Developing Structure with The Four Elements
Balancing Order and Spontaneity
Beginning, Middle, and End
The Intuitive Approach to Structure
Getting to the Other Side of the Unknown
Infusing Your Writing with Passion
The Sound of Words
What Will You Write Next?
Some of the unique elements in this program include ideas about how spirituality and writing intersect, the meaning of Artistic intention, how to use the raw material of the imagination, concept pictures, visual art as inspiration, tapping your unconscious, overcoming writer’s block and experiments with sounds and words.
A “Creative Writing Study Guide” is a visual guide to the creative writing exercises and helpful to look through while doing the individual exercises. You may find yourself awakening to a new level of writing through the changes in perspective and unique
writing gifts Elizabeth Ayres offers to inspire and help you break through inner obstacles. You may find your imagination unleashed as you master skills that will convey your images and ideas.
Elizabeth Ayres has been teaching for over thirty years and has been hailed by New York magazine and the Village Voice for her teaching methods. She is the founder of the Elizabeth Ayres Center for Creative Writing in New York City.
You may also enjoy: Writing the Wave: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers.
~The Rebecca Review
Rating: 5 / 5