Trouble Writing?
Write like you mean it…all the time, every time!
For Anyone with a Story to Tell
- Novelists
- Poets
- Screenwriters
- Nonfiction writers
- Business writers
- Bloggers
You started a novel but never finished it. Maybe it was too much of a struggle. Maybe you kept putting it off. More than likely you had doubts about yourself as a writer.
The exercises in this class will help you delve deeply into your dormant writing skills so you can return to your writing with confidence that your really are a writer.
Maybe your an experienced, even a published author, who wants to stretch.
You know how to write. You take joy in the process of crafting stories, but you know there’s more. Maybe you’re looking for new inspiration or want to take your writing in a new direction.
Navé is an accomplished poet and has been developing this material for the past 20 years. It is designed to inspire and stretch the most experienced writer.
Maybe you’re a business writer or blogger who needs to write but finds it a torturous process.
Content, content, content is the rallying cry of the online business world. Whether you like it or not, you have to write but it doesn’t come easily.
The writing skills taught in the class will transform your writing from drab and boring to imaginative and compelling.
You will learn how to…
• Apply the intrinsic power of your imagination to for your writing and storytelling life.
• Harness the power of storytelling.
• Improvisational skills that will inform and inspire your writing practice
• Learn to combine your written work other artistic disciplines
• Transform your raw ideas into images, characters, and plot
• Recognize how place informs your mood, tone, and the texture of writing
• Turn your daily life experiences into stories.
How does this work?
This class will be delivered via telephone conference call. At class time just call in from wherever you are to participate in this highly interactive and experiential workshop.
What happens when I register
• Once you register, you’ll receive an email with all of the call in information…the number and access code.
• When it’s time for each call, you call into the conference line. It’s that easy.
• The call will be recorded, and barring unforeseen snafus, a downloadable link to the recording will be sent to you after the call.
3 Wednesday Evenings
February 8, 15, & 22
7:00pm – 8:30pm EST
(check time zones)
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for a single payment of $127…
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Writing…
From the Imaginative Storm
to the Creative Form
via Telephone Conference Call
3 Wednesday Evenings
February 8, 15, & 22
7:00pm – 8:30pm EST
(check time zones)
Click the button below
for a single payment of $127…
I’ve gained a broad and deep understanding of my potential as a writer. I’ve been reunited with myself as a creative being who can create the conditions where I can delve into the brown-black pit of the belly where the words come from.
David Rain, Assistant Professor of Geography
and International Affairs
George Washington University
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I have taught with James Navé for ten years. He creates an atmosphere of safety and excitement. Under his hand writers and performers stretch their potential and their power.
Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way
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James Navé sets a tone of maturity from the beginning and cultivates this pace and temper by continually focusing on and encouraging us to surrender to the exuberance of writing as a beloved craft.
Michael Hyatt, Taos, NM
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I’ve never attended a workshop in which the presenter worked so diligently to make the attendees comfortable and pleased. James Navé’s willingness to give of himself and his skills is truly unique. I look forward to the next adventure.
Mary Bryant, Columbia, MO
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James Navé is always able to stir up his own energy in a way that energizes others. He can drop in to different kinds and sizes of groups because he is a natural at collaboration. I have complete trust in his ability to deliver.
Leslie Ullman, Professor
The Vermont College MFA program
James Navé
James Navé is a storyteller, poet/writer, public speaker and trainer. He believes that pursuing your creative potential is key to productive, joyful and successful living. He has devoted his life in service of this, for himself and for others.
Navé works with individuals, groups and organizations. His workshops and training modules put creativity at the forefront, engendering confidence, inspiration and innovation. His dynamic offering finds applications in strategic planning, creative problem-solving, idea generation, vision-setting, presentation, public speaking, and creative leadership.
Navé is one of the pioneers of the Spoken Word movement. He knows over 600 poems by heart and has performed over 3000 shows and workshops for schools, universities, and businesses around the globe. He is co-founder of Poetry Alive! and has partnered with ‘Artist’s Way’ best-selling author Julia Cameron to bring Creativity Camps across the nation.
Navé holds an MFA in Poetry. His work has been published in The North Carolina Literary Review, the Asheville Literary Review, Summit Magazine, the Taos News, Chokecherries, Heartstone Journal, The Dirty Goat, River Oak Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Willard and Maple, Red Wheelbarrow, Phoebe, Tightrope, Griffin, South Carolina Review and Poetry Slam Redux.