Cultivating a Creative Practice: On Writing Through Difficult Days with Elizabeth Ames Staudt

How do you keep writing when you feel like the “This is fine” dog, sitting at your little desk with your optimistic cup of coffee (and work in progress) in a room on fire? This workshop will offer writers courage, comfort, and camaraderie by way of practical suggestions, inspiring quotes, some goofy tweets and memes, recommended reading, and useful questions. We’ll explore ways in which accomplished writers have kept making their art in spite of (alongside, about, around, out of, and out from under) their despair. Participants will respond to prompts about the role of writing in their own lives and explore the hopes and ambitions they have for the art they make. We’ll leave the workshop with a renewed commitment to cultivate and follow our curiosity and make space in our daily lives for the practices that will fuel and sustain our writing.

Class meets online via Zoom. A link to join the session will be sent within 24 hours of the start time.

Class meets, Tuesday, January 14, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Central Time

Class size: Minimum 5. Maximum 12.

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Teaching Artist: Named for Iwoa but born and raised in Wisconsin, Elizabeth Ames is the author of The Other’s Gold, published by Viking in 2019. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, Elizabeth has lived in Seattle, France, and Rwanda since leaving the Midwest. After a few years of living in a Harvard dormitory with her husband, two children, and a few hundred undergraduates, Elizabeth has returned to Wisconsin.