The Disobedient Writer: Break the Rules and Free Your Story

A guide to taking your fiction writing and memoir writing beyond the same old formula and telling unforgettable stories

Created by: Anya Achtenberg
Award-Winning Author; Teacher-Fiction/Memoir/Creative Nonfic

What Will I Learn?

• Re-evaluate conventional rules and approaches and decide if they are right for you and your writing
• Get un-stuck and generate lots of new writing with the help of the fertile writing explorations that accompany each unit
• Discover tools and approaches to expand your creative power and language, and help you discover the form of your story that gives it the space to fully develop
• Gain inspiration from prose and poetry from around the world, by authors such as Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Zadie Smith and Pablo Neruda

Requirements

• This course is open to writers of memoir and fiction at all levels of experience
• A willingness to put in the work and participate in the writing explorations
• An interest in literature across the genres

Target audience

• You are looking to deepen story, characterization and language
• You feel blocked, unsure of your writing and unable to access your full creativity, and the full story waiting to be written
• You are open to having your ideas about writing - and telling story - challenged, and want to learn from new and useful approaches to writing that are perhaps unlike your own