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Radical Creativity: Art, resilience, and sustainable practices for writers in dark times

On By nancystohlmanIn Uncategorized


A special 90-min Virtual Workshop and Conversation 

Friday, May 1 at 11 am MST via Zoom REGISTER FOR FREE HERE

To be an artist in dark times is a radical act. Maybe you’ve even found yourself in fight, flight, or freeze, wondering how is making art helping anything?

We live in a culture that profits on our exhaustion, commodifies our attention, worships productivity, and values us as consumers over citizens, a society that can’t understand or appreciate the calling or patience of the creative process.

To stay creative in these times is an act of resistance, one that requires compassion, courage, and loving diligence. In this workshop and conversation we will invite the elephant in the room to be named, we will embolden both our lives and our art with tools, strategies, and a clear-seeing awareness of the true stakes, and we will unpack our vital, critical, and changing role as the artistic visionaries of our time.

This is an invitation to a deeper possibility of peace, joy and wonder in your creative practice, integrating craft, mindset, and sustainability as your own personal site of resistance.Together we will re-imagine and reclaim our long-term creative lives while we strengthen each other in doing the radical work of staying.

xoxo Nancy

Upcoming (Valentine!) Workshop: Love Your Book: Ten Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on Your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir February 10-21

On By nancystohlmanIn Craft Essays, flash fiction, the writer's life, The Writer's Life, Uncategorized, workshops, writing

Love Your Book: 10 Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir February 10-21

You have a book inside you. It could be your first book or your seventh. It could be a novella-in-flash, a linked collection, a flash memoir, a flash novel or another sort of hybrid form. You love the short prose form, but you’re ready to think bigger–a book, but using the tools of the micro form. 

When a story speaks to us–when it chooses us–we must listen. 

Maybe you’ve already started. Maybe it’s still in your head. Either way, you suspect an untraditional book, using an untraditional structure, might need some unconventional methods. And you are right!

I call this the “flash book” in Going Short, and it is my personal sweet spot; I find the most fulfillment when I’m embracing both the narrow focus of the pieces themselves–the “bricks” of the story—as well as the long-term relationship of building a bigger structure with those bricks. I’ve written four flash novels as well as a linked collection, and since 2015, I’ve been leading groups of writers through the ups and downs of the book-writing process–from the giddy flush of a beginning all the way to the powerful, resonate ending. 

Does this speak to you? If so, join me for a 10-day generative exploration and writing adventure, a “flash flood” with your book or book idea, and gain clarity, momentum, and enthusiasm on both your vision and your next creative steps.

Give yourself the (Valentine’s Day!) gift of 10 days this February to play, experiment, and understand your story more fully, so that you can do the necessary work of bringing it to life!

Join us at the early registration rate of $259 here (regular price $299)

Questions? Feel free to drop me a line. I’d love to work with you and your book!

xo Nancy

P.S. This 10-day, asychronous workshop is also designed to lead into the full Flash Novel Mastermind, opening in March, for those who are ready to keep going. Want to do both? Drop me a line!

SPECIAL OFFER UNTIL FEBRUARY 1:

Save $100 on BOTH Love Your Book AND the Mastermind together!

Whether your book is fiction or creative non-fiction, if you are a dedicated writer, drawing on the skills of flash fiction, this is the long-term container of inspiration, motivation, community and support you have been wanting,

LEARN ABOUT THE FLASH MASTERMIND HERE:

To your creative success in 2025!

LAST CHANCE: August 19-30: Love Your Book: Ten Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on Your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir

On By nancystohlmanIn Craft Essays, flash fiction, the writer's life, The Writer's Life, Uncategorized, workshops, writing

Love Your Book: 10 Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir August 19-30, 2024

You have a book inside you. It could be your first book or your seventh. It could be a novella-in-flash, a linked collection, a flash memoir, a flash novel or another sort of hybrid form. You love the short prose form, but you’re ready to think bigger–a book, but using the tools of the micro form. 

When a story speaks to us–when it chooses us–we must listen. 

Maybe you’ve already started. Maybe it’s still in your head. Either way, you suspect an untraditional book, using an untraditional structure, might need some unconventional methods. And you are right!

I call this the “flash book” in Going Short, and it is my personal sweet spot; I find the most fulfillment when I’m embracing both the narrow focus of the pieces themselves–the “bricks” of the story—as well as the long-term relationship of building a bigger structure with those bricks. I’ve written four flash novels as well as a linked collection, and since 2015, I’ve been leading groups of writers through the ups and downs of the book-writing process–from the giddy flush of a beginning all the way to the powerful, resonate ending. 

Does this speak to you? If so, join me for a 10-day generative exploration and writing adventure, a “flash flood” with your book or book idea, and gain clarity, momentum, and enthusiasm on both your vision and your next creative steps.

Give yourself the gift of 10 days this August to play, experiment, and understand your story more fully, so that you can do the necessary work of bringing it to life!

Join us for $259 here (regular price $299)

Questions? Feel free to drop me a line. I’d love to work with you and your book!

xo Nancy

P.S. This 10-day, asychronous workshop is also designed to lead into the full Flash Novel Mastermind, opening in September, for those who are ready to keep going. Want to do both? Drop me a line!

Upcoming Workshop August 19-30: Love Your Book: Ten Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on Your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir

On By nancystohlmanIn Craft Essays, flash fiction, the writer's life, The Writer's Life, Uncategorized, workshops, writing

Love Your Book: 10 Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir August 19-30, 2024

You have a book inside you. It could be your first book or your seventh. It could be a novella-in-flash, a linked collection, a flash memoir, a flash novel or another sort of hybrid form. You love the short prose form, but you’re ready to think bigger–a book, but using the tools of the micro form. 

When a story speaks to us–when it chooses us–we must listen. 

Maybe you’ve already started. Maybe it’s still in your head. Either way, you suspect an untraditional book, using an untraditional structure, might need some unconventional methods. And you are right!

I call this the “flash book” in Going Short, and it is my personal sweet spot; I find the most fulfillment when I’m embracing both the narrow focus of the pieces themselves–the “bricks” of the story—as well as the long-term relationship of building a bigger structure with those bricks. I’ve written four flash novels as well as a linked collection, and since 2015, I’ve been leading groups of writers through the ups and downs of the book-writing process–from the giddy flush of a beginning all the way to the powerful, resonate ending. 

Does this speak to you? If so, join me for a 10-day generative exploration and writing adventure, a “flash flood” with your book or book idea, and gain clarity, momentum, and enthusiasm on both your vision and your next creative steps.

Give yourself the gift of 10 days this August to play, experiment, and understand your story more fully, so that you can do the necessary work of bringing it to life!

Join us at the early registration rate of $259 here (regular price $299)

Questions? Feel free to drop me a line. I’d love to work with you and your book!

xo Nancy

P.S. This 10-day, asychronous workshop is also designed to lead into the full Flash Novel Mastermind, opening in September, for those who are ready to keep going. Want to do both? Drop me a line!