Seeing is the Seed: Writing at the Arboretum

Invest in yourself – four Sunday morning meetings at the Arboretum over four months equals eight hours of writing support, instruction, and community. This is for you — no matter if you are writing, meaning to write, curious about writing, blogging, telling stories (especially yours) — so, join us beginning Sunday, March 30, 2014 from ten until noon at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden for what might just be the beginning of the rest of your life. – Why do we say thisA!X – Because of what the poet Mary Oliver writes: A!XThe most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power or time.

Here’s the plan: There will be specific areas of discussion for each meeting, along with plenty of time for participants to discuss their interests and challenges with their own work or planned work. The emphasis is on nonfiction writing but as I can tell you, these techniques are also applicable in a broad sense to writing fiction. (There are common elements to all types of writing.) Our reading suggestions are just that – suggestions. You can still profit from the workshop if you don’t have time to read.

You’ll notice these meetings will not address CONTENT of what your are writing or want to write – if you want to write about fracking, aloes, Dutch elm disease, acidification and marine biology, tornadoes, Morocco, Yosemite, your grandmother’s ha-mantashen, or your grandfather’s Navajo silver belt buckle, these workshops are for you.

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based food and garden writer who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of
memoir-ish culinary essays. www.theliterarygardener.com
4 Sundays,
March 30, April 27,
May 18 & June 29, 2014
10 am – 12:00 pm
Oak Room
Paula Panich, instructor

$30 members / $35 non-members each session (includes Arboretum admission)
Please call the Arboretum Class Registration Line at 626.821.4623
Pre-registration preferred!

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