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Creative Writing Exercise Extravaganza 2

  • 18 Feb 2017
  • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Torrance Airport Meeting Room 3301 Airport Drive, Torrance CA 90505

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Creative Writing Exercise Extravaganza 2

This session is about getting the creative juices flowing and about mastering the your writing voice. We'll also learn to generate story and scene ideas and discover how to apply various writing techniques to your own work. 

The writing exercises are designed to help hone your writing skills, and to help you find your writing voice and style. 

Bring your a Notebook/Journal/Pad Paper and your writing instrument of choice. Bring whatever will get your creative juices flowing--whether it be a pencil, a special pen, a quill or colored markers.

About the Facilitator

Alana Garrigues is a freelance journalist and creative nonfiction author. Originally from the bookish mecca of Portland, Oregon, she now lives the sunshine life in Redondo Beach, California, where she writes for the local newspaper and raises identical twin girls with her husband.

She is currently writing a “humorous humanitarian” book about a California nurse who uprooted from her laid-back, beach town lifestyle to move to the bush of Benin, West Africa to found a non-profit. Other projects include rough drafts of several children’s stories scribbled into notebooks, awaiting rediscovery and revision. Never one to pigeonhole, Alana is equally in love with telling compelling true stories and inspiring kids to love reading and writing; she hopes to move her career forward with one foot solidly rooted in both camps: creative nonfiction and kid lit.

Alana is happiest when she sets foot on no fewer than two continents in a year, where she spends a great deal of time exploring and attempting to decode language and culture while away. She is a meticulous researcher, terrible housecleaner, incessant daydreamer, nature lover, and dabbler in all things art-related.

Alana is the Publications Director for CBW-LA and author of “writercize,” a blog brimming with writing prompts for writers, students and teachers. She can be found at www.alanagarrigues.com

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