Leslie is currently taking a 6-month sabbatical from teaching
to complete her second short story collection: December 2024-May 2025.
SUMMER & FALL Course Schedules TBA
RIPE FRUIT I
THE ART OF LANGUAGING
Finding and Expanding Your Writing Voice
A fundamental writing course in perception, imagination, compassion & commitment
AFTER RIPEFRUIT I, YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO WORDS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME …
- Learn the six qualities it takes to be a great writer and put them into immediate practice in a safe and intimate environment.
- Excavate your wildmind and cultivate your own inimitable voice.
- Experience the encouragement and inspiration, the freedom and lucid structure you’ve always wanted.
This class culminates with a celebration and reading of your work, a deeply satisfying evening of warmth, quality, surprise and completion.
This foundational training is designed to catalyze your inherent talents and catapult your writing to a new level of originality and impact.HERE YOU BECOME A LANGUAGE INNOVATOR rather than a language technicianBy awakening your imagination, you cut through any fear you have about writing. Instead, you feel open, loose, safe, even daring. You are given the opportunity to experience writing as effortless and euphoric. While granting you permission to write with great freedom, this course guides you toward excellence. In the end, you will grow excited and proud of your writing voice.
YOU UNEARTH THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF YOUR MOTHER-TONGUE
By focussing on the senses, image, sound, metaphor, line and breath, you re-connect with your passion for the written word. As a result, you energize your writing, surprising yourself with the power and authenticity of the spontaneous product. In the end, your writing is deeper and more alive. You have become an intuitive geiger counter for language gold.
YOU INCREASE YOUR WRITING DEXTERITY
By exercising all kinds of writing muscles and engaging in weekly aerobic workouts for the imagination, you acquire the essential building blocks for the entire writing process. You gain a fresh and heightened approach to language. In the end, you discover you are equipped with writing tools that you will come back to over and over again. You feel thrilled to be a writer.
For more info See the Ripe Fruit Experience
Poem Collage Gallery
Prerequisite: None required.
