This weekend class will focus on learning how to edit effectively while maintaining peace, confidence, and inner balance during the editing process. Editing is a crucial part of the writing process: Writing is neither good nor bad—it’s only finished or unfinished, and it’s in the finishing—i.e., the editing—that it becomes good. It may seem to take a different set of skills—even use a different part of the brain—to shape, prune, and polish the work we’ve opened our hearts to generate, but if we try to edit without keeping at least one toe in the deep stream of creativity inside us, we can end up dismantling powerful first drafts. In this class we’ll discuss—and practice—using spiritual skills, such as listening to intuition and briefly dropping down into the silence beyond thought, to create the best, finished writing possible.  Fiction and nonfiction writers at all levels are welcome.

In this workshop, we will generate new writing through guided exercises and prompts; offer feedback/first impressions on writing you produce in our weekend; workshop writing you bring from home.