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where stories begin - yesim cimcoz

Stories begin with you.
You have a natural ability to bring random ideas and thoughts, bits and pieces together and create a story.
We lose that ability sometimes.
Here at Where Stories Begin, our hope is that we can open up a space, a place where you can remember your ability to tell stories,
to not take yourself, your writing or life too seriously,
after all everything is just a story.

writing sessions

Come join us every Monday between 18:00 – 19:30 for a Zoom Writing Session
your first visit is free
if it suits you come every week

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45 Lessons

52 Weeks of Writing

The first thing I remember writing was a poem for a class in high school. It was about a janitor…

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Week 1: Writing Freely – Start digging for Stories

A few years back my life was very different from what it is today. My mother in law was bedridden,…

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Week 2: Remembering to Write – More digging

About five or six years after I moved to Turkey, I visited my parents in Fairfax. I was married then…

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Week 3: Making Lists

A few years after I had opened the Writing House in Istanbul, my students told me there was a wonderful…

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Week 4: Clustering – Breaking apart to come together

On August 17th 1999 at 3 a.m. we awoke to an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4. The center of…

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Week 5: The Seasons of a Writer – Winter

The Dead of Winter by SAMUEL MENASHE In my coat I sitAt the window sillWintering with snowThat did not meltIt…

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Week 6: The Seasons of a Writer – Spring

March, April, May, the three months of Spring. In the Tao spring is a time to put forth, to display.…

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Week 7: The Seasons of a Writer – Summer

Summer is the season of ‘flowering’. Summer is the season of the heart. It is yang energy. It’s element is…

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