Write Now! A Speedy Journaling Workshop

You know when you read those layouts—the ones with journaling that makes you feel something, think about a topic in a way you've never done before, or stop to study an interesting way with words? Maybe it makes you giggle, or shake your head in agreement, or get a little chill because it's that good. We all recognize good journaling when we read it. It doesn't have to be very long, maybe just five or six sentences. But the words in the journaling and the way they're arranged holds so much energy and preciseness (and maybe a little bit of emotion, too) that nothing else is needed. Call it zippy journaling. Or writing that's full of energy. Slim and trim, without an ounce of extra wordiness. The kind of journaling that draws your visual attention and then completely catches your emotional focus. You read the journaling and think I wish I could write like that.

Well, now you can.

Write Now! A Speedy Journaling Workshop, taught by Amy Sorensen, is going to teach you how to write journaling that's small on time demands but big on impact. You'll learn how to create meaningful journaling in just ten minutes and how to use journaling concepts to help your stories nearly write themselves.

Amy's writing philosophy, gleaned from teaching high school English, writing personal essays, and being just a little bit obsessed with the written word, is that with just a little bit of coaching, everyone can journal well. Yes, even you! Her popular Big Picture workshop, My Word!, has taught hundreds of scrapbookers how to unleash their inner writers. With Write Now!, Amy's ready to teach you how to write well-quickly. She's dedicated to the idea that if you're going to go to the effort of writing something, you might as well make it good. But she knows how valuable (and limited!) your time for journaling is. So she's also dedicated to showing you how to get right down to the significance in your stories without spending too much time on them.

Spend four weeks learning quick-writing techniques with Amy, and you'll discover a new aspect of your journaling self. Your confidence in your ability to write something meaningful will blossom. The tools and techniques you'll learn will help make you a pro at the art of the quick write. You'll end up with the ability to write something meaningful on all of your layouts, no matter how little time for journaling you have.

Amy's class includes: