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Continue to Write with Janine
Guided Journaling & Workshop
Begins July 17 (through August 14)
Thursdays from 10 am - 12 pm PST
5 weeks on Zoom/$300
Ready to generate new work and take a fresh look at your current projects? With guided journaling techniques you will dip into your subconscious to discover stories, fictional and real, that you are meant to share.
For the first two weeks, Janine will ask you to press pause on the stress and distractions in your life. After two hours of active journaling you will emerge focused, energized, and inspired. With learned techniques for reflection, you will unearth themes, subjects, images--new insights that need to be turned into pages.
We will add in a traditional workshop component to the final three weeks in class. You will submit short pieces for discussion in class with feedback from Janine and your peers. Stay productive this summer & renew you passion to write. Questions? Email Janine jdebois@gmail.com​​
Classes
with Janine Noel
with Andrea A. Firth
CLASS FULL
Quiet Writing--A Forever Workshop
4 Weeks, Self-paced, On Substack
May 2025, Registration open
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There are significant moments in everyone’s day that can make literature.
That’s what you ought to write about. –Raymond Carver
Quiet writing is story or narrative that reads quiet but still has the requisite tension and conflict that drives good storytelling. Some people/characters live wild lives, face huge upheavals, or tackle death-defying adventures, and these stories do attract readers. But many of us have stories to share that are driven less by stormy, flamboyant events and plot twists and more by the subtle, simple happenings and struggles of the everyday, which can be powerful reads that draw readers in as well. (Consider novelist Marilynne Robinson, short-story writer Raymond Carver, and essayist Abigail Thomas as examples.) In this self-paced, 4-week course, we will read and analyze several examples of quiet writing (nonfiction and fiction), explore the craft and technique used, and work on our own quiet writing through prompts and exercises too.
This course is ideal for those who write personal essay, flash, memoir, or fiction. The course will be posted on Substack in May. Weekly lessons will be delivered to your inbox, and you will have ample opportunity to pose questions and comments and receive timely responses from me.
Finding Your Essay's Heartbeat
I taught this workshop for the fine folks at Chill Subs on Substack in a similar format to my new class Quiet Writing..
Take a deep dive into personal essay and leave with an essay well underway.
Self-paced. Available anytime.
Learn all about it here.