Pat's next series of Life Stories and Legacy Writing Workshops
6 Wednesdays, April 14 to May 26 (no meeting May 5)
7 to 9:30 pm
What will be written on your headstone? What will your obituary say? How will you be remembered, and what has your life meant? The goal in this nontraditional workshop of short personal writing is to capture your personal and family legacy for the next generation, the friends and family who will survive you. Knowing that you are writing not for publication but to set the record straight—in your own mind, as much as anything—may liberate you, allowing you to examine with candor your important life choices and experiences, achievements and mistakes, beliefs and convictions.
Through a series of exercises designed to open a rich vein of personal material, you will begin the exploration and storytelling that may help you either develop a personal or family history or write a personal legacy letter to your survivors. No whining, no boasting, no name dropping: Just an honest examination of what went on in your life or your family, with an emphasis on fleshing out the characters and stories to be found there. This course, which grew out of the warm-up exercises for Pat's workshop on ethical wills, will encourage you to reminisce deeply: to mine your life (and family) experiences for personal stories, myths, themes, and values.
Five Wednesday evening sessions
7 to 9:30 pm
Instructor Pat McNees
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Phone: 301 654-8664
Writer's Center online
http://www.writer.org
postmaster@writer.org
$195 for members, $215 for nonmembers
You can e-mail postmaster@writer.org and ask to be notified when workshops go on-line for registration. Include your mailing address and ask for a hard copy of their brochure of workshops.
Ask to be put on the Writer's Center's mailing list, to get a printed list of their seasonal workshops.
Fall Conference of Personal Historians
Voices of the Elders, the 2010 conference of the
Association of Personal Historians
November 3-7, 2010
Empress Hotel and Victoria Conference Centre
Victoria, BC, Canada
