Find Your Voice. Tell Your Story
In the chaos of daily life, writing often feels like a luxury. If you long to express yourself but struggle to find time, motivation, or the right support, this workshop is for you. Here, your words matter. Our unique blend of prompts, video and reading suggestions as well as a community of like-minded writers will ignite your creativity and empower you to tell your stories.
INSIDE THE WORKSHOP
Your stories are waiting. Let's go get them!
- 52 weeks of guided prompts and exercises to help you discover the stories you want to tell
- A safe community forum for sharing and feedback
- Resources curated by an experienced writer Teacher of 20 years.
- Self-paced structure so you can write wherever and whenever you want to
- an opportunity to discover your writer's voice
- a systematic approach to help Confront and Conquer Writer's Block
- an easy pace to make writing a sustainable practice in your daıly life
STOP DREAMING, START WRITING
One day…
when the kids have gone off to school…
when I retire…
when I can have a room of my own…
when I have time…
One day is a day that often never comes.
Stop putting off your dream to write, pick up a pen or sit in front of your computer and start writing.
You have so many stories waiting to be told. Share yourself with the world.
Discover how wonderful it feels to write.
YOUR WRITING JOURNEY
EVERY WEEK
A guided writing task to get you started
Suggested reading and videos to keep you motivated.
INSPIRATION
Get inspired, find the courage to start and discover how easy it is to tell your stories.
WHAT'S INSIDE
COMMUNITY
A community of peers who become your first readers, who pick you up when you lose faith…
- Writing Freely – digging for Stories
- Clustering – Breaking apart to come together
- The Seasons of a Writer
- Mix and Match Words
- Ekphrasis – Writing from Photographs and Art | Poems
- Metaphors – A thousand meanings
- Journalling
- When Things Fall Apart
- When Things Come Together
- Writing about Loss
- Listening to Your Own Voice
- Beginnings and Endings
- Epistolary Writing
- Creating Real People
- The Flow – Plotting
- Flash Fiction
- Memory Revisited and Retold
- Play and Writing
- Rhythm in the Writing
- The Past and The Present
BE INSPIRED, BE CREATIVE, HAVE FUN AND WRITE
Where Stories Begin is a writing community for English speakers. This is a true workshop space for anyone who wants to write. It is an online space, open for you 24/7.
There are writing tasks I have gathered over the years, prompts and exercises I have tried and tested. They work. There are references to books and videos I have read and watched that have shaped my writing, given me courage to keep writing. I will share exercises and talks, ideas from writers that have inspired me. In time I hope we will meet online and write together, share our work. You can come in whenever you have time and perhaps this space will enable you to make time to write. You can sit quietly in a corner and work at your own pace, you can share your work, read someone else’s work, share your thoughts. My hope is that this space will be your sanctuary, to write, to let your creative side come through, a space where you can tell the stories you’ve been gathering over the years.
Over the past 20 years I have worked with many people who came to discover the stories that were waiting to be told through them. Here is what some of them have said about our journey together.
Over the past year, I’ve been able to draft 15 story outlines. If someone had told me a year ago that I would be writing short story drafts, I wouldn’t have believed it. Publishing my work hasn’t been my primary focus. , This process has been very valuable, meaningful, and a period full of growth for me.
I haven’t come across a better program that so accurately reflects the soul, mind, and true nature of writing. When I met you, all the gaps in my understanding of how I need to write were filled and I have finally gathered the courage to compile my poems written over the past twenty years into a book.
I was just writing for myself. Then I thought It would probably be better if I took lessons. Until that point, I had never written anything other than letters. I wrote a memoir. It was published. Then I started writing stories. I never thought writing would become my source of joy in life.
I was the most undisciplined person in the world when it came to writing, and after giving birth, I couldn’t even bring myself to touch the keyboard. Thanks to the exercises, and monthly online meetings, I was able to return to writing. Thank you so much!