Exerwrite - 1st Exercise: The Sound of Your Writing~ Babbling Baby Brings Beauty

❤️Dear Writers, world builders, and creators❤️

This will be our Exerwrite group's first event🎉

We will meet up for a friendly meeting of the best kind. A writerly one.

Have you always wanted to write yet never knew where to start?
Do you want to pick up new inspiration for a new story or for building on to an existing one?

Using the insightful and powerful writing exercises from Ursula K. Leguin‘s book, “Steering the Craft”, we will get a feel for what makes a scene, how one is written, and get to catching some creative wisps — they glow bright and infect you with a certain energy when you catch them.

🔊 This first exercise is about the sound of writing, how the words you choose matter not only for their meaning, but also for the ring they have in the readers' mind. We'll play around with a cue or two that we come up with for inspiration.

📖 Owning a copy of "Steering the Craft" in digital form or as a hard copy is not required for this even. But since I'll be giving my reflection on the exercise in a limited time, you'd want to get the book if you want to have the author's full insight.

⏲️Our meetings won’t be long, about 90 minutes, with 25-30 minutes between greetings and exercise breakdown.
Then, we‘ll do the exercise, which might take up to 30-60 minutes.

🔁 After that, comes the optional sharing portion of the event. You would read your piece aloud to get feedback or listen to other's reading their own to give some feedback of your own -- preferably both.
Especially with this first exercise, reading aloud does play a big role.

The event will take place at the Alrighty cafe near Ostabahnhof.

💌So, join us on our journey through the writing high seas.
We'll find a stronger voice, more powerful prose, and creative impulses together.