Write Your Life Workshops

 

 

 

   

     

        I’ve been a published writer since 1986 and teaching individuals and families since 1993 as a professional in the field of human services.  Yet my greatest joy happens when teaching Write Your Life and Write Your Spiritual Life memoir classes in the community, because people really love the richness and meaning life stories bring into their lives.

 

        Writing memoir is not like other writing.  While some writers can hide their true selves behind poetry or fiction, memoir and writing true-life stories can be hard to grasp at first.   So people gather at my workshops in libraries all over Michigan and wonder, “Can I do this?” 

 

         As they begin to share bits and piece of their stories, some begin to smile.  “It’s been years since I remembered that,” they say with a misty-eyed look.  I then teach them time-tested techniques to remember, organize and finish the very stories they have wanted to write for years, but didn’t know how.  

 

    Still, as trust develops, the hard questions come: 

 

How do I tell the truth and not hurt people? 

What do I do with the pain? 

Can I really put a book together?   

I heard that getting published is hard, can you help?

   

        Me, I simply teach them what I’ve studied for the last 20 years about being human and being a writer, too.         

        My students often respond, “You’ve really taught me something important about myself.” 

        Eventually, as we talk at workshop’s end, their faces light up and they have learned the answers to the hard  questions and say:

 

“Yes, I can do this.” 

 

    So whatever you are thinking, whatever you are wondering about life story, know that you can do this, too.  Call me, so we can get started. 

 

Bobbe

269-492-4488 or e-mail lifewrite@netzero.com to set an appointment.