Music and the Writing Process

Saturday 1-5p.m.

Music can offer the writer a soundscape, an atmosphere in which to enhance, ignite and deepen. This class will offer suggestions and lists of resources to search out and put together the soundtrack for your project. This class is for any writer—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, beginning or advanced—who has ever experienced a creative dead end. Bring with you a few short selections of your own work, an array of themes and possibilities, including scenes or lines that have stubbornly resisted your efforts, and we will work with prompts to experience the possibilities of musical ambience as a writing tool. You need no musical background for this class, only the ability to listen with a pen in your hand.

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