I invite you to write with me in one of my writing workshops. During our half-day together, we will write from creative prompts I provide. Writing time allowed for each prompt may be anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes, and at each meeting we will manage to write to three  or four prompts.

After each writing time, writers read their work to the group (only if they want to), and group members comment on what they like, what they found strong, what they will remember. We don’t criticize because, after all, works shared are brand-new, just-born writing.

What can you learn without being criticized? Believe it or not, often much more than you’ll learn if you are criticized. If we praise what’s strong, it grows stronger, and what isn’t as strong falls away naturally. Besides, there are plenty of places you can go where someone will tell you what they think you’re doing wrong. My approach is meant to be different.

 

Susan Lawson

Come inside my ‘story bowl’

When you write with me, the support and containment of my Hindu story bowl—the centerpiece of my writing group meetings—extends to you. This bowl is painted by women in the Mithila region of Nepal in the same way they traditionally paint the inside walls of their homes. The technique has been passed down from mother to daughter for 3,000 years.

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Writer, writing WORKSHop leader, graphic artist, speaker

Susan Lawson belongs to the Amherst Writers & Artists

affiliate network