Long Story Short School of Writing offers a multitude of great courses taught by highly qualified instructors. Whether you write for fun, school, business or with dreams of getting published, we have courses that will help advance your writing and your career!
Journaling - the 'Write' Way to a Better Life
with Erica Miner
LSS2060 - Journaling - the 'Write' Way to a Better Life - $158.00
Have you always wanted to journal but have had trouble getting started? Have you journaled in the past but need a jump start to get your journaling creativity going again? Do you need to add some 'sizzle' to your journaling experience? Journaling - the 'Write' Way to a Better Life' is the perfect course for you! Journaling expert and Queenpower.com's 'Journaling Queen,' Erica Miner, will motivate and inspire you to start or continue your journey of self-discovery through your journals. Author of the award-winning journal-based novel, Travels With My Lovers, Erica brings an expertise developed over a near-lifetime to this dynamic course. Through intriguing prompts, well-researched methods and thought-provoking exercises, Erica will teach you how you can gain the most personal knowledge from the journaling process and answer such questions as: Why is Journaling such a life-altering tool? How can self-dialogue help you heal yourself? How can you transform your life by capturing your thoughts and feelings on paper? How can you make Journaling fun, creative and rewarding? Journaling is for everybody, no matter what age or which stage of life. Preserve your family legacies and gain from your own personal insights. All participants will received an email edition of Erica's valuable Journaling Resource Sheet to guide them in their Journaling journeys.
Recommended reading: Travels with My Lovers by Erica Miner (a published journal)
A Three Week Course
Start Date: Every Tuesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
Fine Tuning the Senses
with Jane Bernard
LSS2061 - Fine Tuning the Senses - $129.00
For people who want to enhance their creativity, FINE TUNING the senses is a ʽnaturalʼ approach to writing. Our focus is on unlocking writing inhibitions by focusing on our senses. This is designed to be fun as well as stimulating. You can apply what you learn to all types of writing. Focusing on the senses turns the key, opening doors to your imagination. Fine tuning the Senses lets you access the passion that enables you to clarify your message. Upon completion of this workshop, you will feel empowered and inspired as a writer and a communicator.
~Week One: We will do exercises individually using our 5 senses.
~Week Two: We will do exercises where the senses work together and we will bring in intuition and evoking emotion.
There are no wrong answers. Instead there are open doors. Jane bases this on her book Fine Tuning, connecting with your inner power. Included will be an e book with the exercises.
A Two Week Course
Start Date: Every Saturday 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Conducted workshop style via a message board. We will have question and answer sessions on Saturday mornings from 9:30-11 PST and Jane will respond to all postings during the week.
Recommended reading - Fine Tuning, Connecting with Your Inner Power - www.FineTuningBook.com
The Muse: Writing from Inspiration
with Jamieson Wolf
LSS2062 - The Muse: Writing from Inspiration, Part One - $129.00
The MUSE can come from anywhere. In olden days, it was believed that Muses resided inside us and around us. Gods that would bestow gifts to normal mortals so that they would produce pieces of work or song. Just as Gods could be mischievous, they could also bestow helpful gifts. It was a Muses job to inspire, to get that kernel of an idea stuck in a mortal’s head. After all, that small kernel could turn out to be a grand, epic novel or a beautiful piece of music. The Muse will focus on that inspiration and help people who want to write put that pencil to the paper (or fingers to the keyboard).
Each class will focus on a different style of writing.
Class One: Finding the Inspiration to Write - The first class will focus on the impulse of writing. Students will write a piece after working out where the inspiration for writing comes from for them. I will ask students to go and listen to a conversation and produce a small short story inspired from that conversation.
Class Two: Time and History form our Past - The second session will focus on the past and it’s inspirational factors. Time, place, setting, mood. These are all important elements in writing. The students will produce a story in the form of a written letter to someone from the past.
Class Three: He has a lot of Character - The third class will take a look at the beginning of writing a short story and it’s important elements: Character, Place, Setting and Time. I will have the student’s think of three characters and have me write bios for them. Then I will have them think of a setting for the story.
A Three Week Course
Start Date: Every Wednesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
LSS2062A - The Muse: Writing from Inspiration, Part Two - $129.00
Class Four: The Plot Thickens - The fourth class will focus on the other element of a story: Plot. Now I will have the students write a short story using the characters they have created. They will have to focus on plot and having the characters interact with each other.
Class Five: Poetry is Words in Motion - The fifth class will focus on different types of poetry: Haiku, Prose and Abstract. Students will learn a bit about each form of poetry and then try their hand at writing their own poetry creations.
Class Six: Even when it’s not Fiction, there is a Story - The sixth class will focus on article and column writing. I will talk a bit about the differences between articles (news items and factual recounting) and columns (prose of a more personal nature). I will then have the students choose to write either a column or an article on something that inspires them. The sixth class will also have an afterward on how to start a writing career over the internet.
Sessions begin: The class will run for 12 weeks with a new class every other Wednesday. New course terms begin several times a month - check with instructor for next available class start date.
A Three Week Course
Start Date: Every Wednesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
Writing as Meditation
with Chandra Ghosh Jain
LSS2063 - Writing as Meditation - $158.00
Writing comes as a revelation, as a form of yoga or meditation, when the writer disappears in her writings and the only reality is the world she has created with her words. This leads to a profound experience of timelessness, when a single moment of inspiration becomes eternity. That is the whole art of meditation, the disappearance of the ego, the disappearance of the mind. Writing becomes a way to experience the unity of thought and its intrinsic spiritual nature.
Writing is therapeutic as well and is an effective way to overcome stress. Each experience however ugly, depressing or blissful becomes a reserve of emotions the writer draws on while creating her magical world of words. This helps in emotional healing. Writing is way to express the suppressed feelings. Life and writing get so intricately interwoven that life seems the tale of creation and the writer the carrier of the essence of life. The purpose of this online course is to help you to familiarize yourself with the various elements of the writing as healing therapy. Writing helps to put your thoughts in perspective. It makes you see things from different or even the opposite angle. It will focus on heightened awareness. All senses perceive more than what is apparent. Meditation is not something occult, esoteric or outside the normal life. It's simply the art of mental self-control.
Meditation and Writing: Assignments.
A Three Week Course
Start Date: Every Wednesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
Classical Feng Shui - Basics for Your Writing
with Anna Maria Prezio, PhD and Certified Feng Shui Consultant
LSS2064 - Feng Shui Your Writing Environment - $168.00
Feng Shui is the art and science of living in harmony with your environment. This ancient Chinese practice is a mathematical system that determines the most favorable direction for your living and working environment. Feng Shui literally means 'wind and water', the two natural forces that influence chi, the flow of energy around us. When feng shui is used properly it can bring about a harmonious life of improved health, wealth and better relationships. Traditionally used by royalty, today feng shui is used globally by people from all walks of life including entrepreneurs, celebrities and other professionals. Famous people like Donald Trump, Sting, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Richahrd Branson and even corporations like Disney, MGM Grand Hotel, The Chopra
Center and others.Classical feng shui is based on a complex scientific calculation, rather than a metaphysical reading relying on inspiration or intuition. Ancient Chinese Scholars have spend centuries observing the affects of physical forces of the Universe and how to better harmonize our environment through their scientific knowledge of feng shui. Although neither destiny or luck is not predictable, feng shui along with good deeds, passionate talents, and good karma, we can maximize our life's success. Classical feng shui can help you live a productive, creative and harmonious life. This class is suited for anyone interested in creating a harmonic environment and even a possible new career.
A Three Week Course
Start Date Every Wednesday
This is an Online course and will be conducted via the internet as arranged by instructor after registration.
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I loved the time I spent with Jane so much. I wish it didn’t have to end so soon. The . . .workshop . . .was worth every penny of my tuition. It was intense, challenging and much more hands on then I expected, but that’s how we learn. It was definitely better than . . . a live writing workshop with a room full of other students. Jane had me write a bio . . . and she customized her lessons to fit my needs. She provided guidance and nudged me to search within myself. Her exercises were great in unlocking the labyrinth of my subconscious. Jane’s guidance revealed a few strengths I had that I didn’t even know were there. She’s a fantastic mentor who is inspiring and encouraging.
