Jump Starting Writing - February!

Hello, Jumpstart Writers ... our final meeting of February in San Rafael is coming up this Wednesday, March 26th.  Looking forward to seeing folks and hearing about their writing projects!

A quick note about March: I will be out of town at AWP in San Antonio, TX beginning Weds, March 4th  ... so no Jumpstart  Workshop in San Rafael that day. (Though I will meet the Petaluma group that Tuesday morning, March 3rd -- but more about that next week!)

So I'll see folks in San Rafael on Weds, Feb 26th and Marlene Cullen will facilitate  Monday evening and Tuesday morning in Petaluma. See all the calendar and location deets below -- or check Copperfield's  Calendar of Events here.  And thanks to Marlene Cullen  for  her shout out on her blog The Write Spot -- and hello! to the folks visiting from there. 

In Jumpstart Writing, we write to several prompts, get the juices flowing, and words going. This free-writing process jumps right over that cranky editor in your brain and lets you get right down to putting words on paper. The best part? It's fun!

Green --peace?

Here's a JumpStart suggestion to try at home: go for a Color Walk! Think of a color (red, yellow, purple, grey) then walk for 15 minutes anywhere and note all the instances and objects you spot of that color. Then write for 15 minutes about the experience, follow your thoughts into fantasy or memory, develop into a poem or a paragraph. Or let it lie fallow until you need it again. Try it in different environments - marshland, hill hikes, around a suburban neighborhood, on city sidewalks or park. Note the new grass, a dog's green collar, peas in a bowl waiting to be steamed.  Feel free to post your own response in comments below.

Curious about just what Jumpstart Writing entails? See my this post on my blog to learn more about this process -- and maybe see this response to a prompt in class on using repetitions.

You can also investigate Marlene Cullen's blog, The Write Spot for more freewriting prompts.

Here are the details -- feel free to share this email with friends who might be interested.
Jumpstart Petaluma  - Copperfield's, 140 Kentucky Street, Petaluma

Monday evening, 6:30 - 8:30 pm ~ Marlene Cullen leads the way ~ Feb 24

Tuesday evening, 10 - noon ~ with Marlene Cullen ~ Feb 25

Jumpstart San Rafael - Copperfield's, 850 Fourth St, San Rafael

Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.   Feb  26 with Lakin Khan

Here's a link to  Copperfields Events Calendar

onward and upward, writing all the while,

Lakin Willard Khan. 

lakhan@sonic.net 

Rhymes With Bacon\

Useful links:

The Write Spot https://www.thewritespot.us/jumpstart.php

 Copperfield's San Rafael 

 https://www.copperfields

Rhymes With Bacon   https://lakinkhan.blogspot.com/