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Memoir Intensive: March 2012 in Palm Desert

Craft a Memoir that Sings to the Heart

A Writer’s Craft Retreat
with NY Times Bestseller Jennifer Lauck

Hosted by Tammy Coia

palm desert

You have a life story to share, you know what you want to write and you are writing as well as you can, but something isn’t clicking. What is the problem?

Every writer needs feedback from an editor, a teacher and from colleagues. Writing is a solitary pursuit but becoming a crafts-person requires a little support.

In this retreat you will learn what is and isn’t working in your writing and why.

Jennifer has written and published four memoirs, and in this retreat, she will give you the all the insight she has learned over 18 years of craft.

In this retreat you will:

  1. Share your writing, workshop style
  2. 
Be coached on your pages
  3. \Watch other writers be coached
  4. Discover the tricks of how to be a reader who thinks like a writer
  5. Learn the foundation stone of memoir writing: scene.

DATES/TIMES: March 23, 24 & 25, Fri. 5-9 p.m., Sat. 10-4, Sun.10-4

LOCATION: Heritage Palms, Library, Palm Desert, CA

COST: 12 spots available – $425.00 by Mach 1, 2012
 or $475.00 after March 2, 2012
Save $50.00 when you register early!

Contact Jennifer for more info and to sign up:  jennifer@jenniferlauck.com

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
 Deposit is non-refundable but can be applied to a future workshop, in the event of an emergency cancellation.*
The full balance of your tuition is due two weeks prior to the event – March 9, 2012 – and retreat tuition is non-refundable.

*There is a $25.00 processing fee for transferring your deposit

This workshop will have a “virtual” follow-up opportunity, which will be six on-line classes to check in, provide additional teaching and hear writer’s read.

This class will also be followed by an Advanced Writing Retreat (Oct. 2012) open to those who attend in March.

Memoir Coach Testimonials

If I’m absolutely honest, I’d have to admit that I didn’t have high expectations around the value I’d receive from Tammy Coia’s Writing Workshop for Women. My judgment had nothing to do with Tammy, a woman I’d never met, or with the stated Workshop goals I found on her website.   My judgment had everything to do with my fear of exposing any part of my creative self to a group of strangers! What I discovered about myself in Week Two of Session 1: Living a Legacy-Discovering Yourself, was a gift I will forever be grateful for in my life’s journey as I write and create.  Tammy’s weekly topics and writing lessons initially stuck me as benign on the surface; however, with each new thought, question or writing lesson, I found great value in the power they had to bring forth profound connections I’d never made and memories I’d long forgotten.  I am newly inspired and grateful for having met Tammy Coia and the remarkable women in her Workshops who embraced each other’s offerings with pure acceptance and support. I simply cannot wait to return to Palm Springs next winter to attend more sessions! 
Terrie E., Minneapolis, MN