Sunday, May 17th

10-11:30am PT / 12-1:30pm CT / 1-2:30pm ET

Online Workshop

Facilitated by Meg Hayertz

When a character plays, we experience their style of interacting with the world around them. If they play a team sport, we notice the skills, expectations and defenses they bring to community. The way a character plays can also be the way they participate in revolutions, work meetings, or family dynamics, as well as how they go about pursuing the elixir of their hero's journey. 

Where in your characters' lives do they feel safe to play? Where to we meet them at their most open? Where do they not feel safe, and where are the in-between places? Particularly for hardened characters who have had to compartmentalize their sense of play, a rare glimpse of their playfulness reveals their private, mysterious inner world and their relationship with life itself. 

In this workshop, we'll read excerpts full of games and play from novels and short stories. We'll write about our characters playing in various situations, and we'll consider what their styles of play indicate about their character arc and how play might elevate the possibilities for the peak scenes in your manuscript.

If your writing is feeling stilted or if you’re getting bored of your story, this workshop will infuse new energy into your writing so you can stay in the flow and make satisfying progress on your manuscript! The element of surprise will guide us to exactly what we need.

Participants are saying…

I felt a lot of pressure around my project, and then I showed up to our workshop and realized, “Oh, it’s all do-able.”

- Julie J.

Meg is an insight machine.

- Carolyn Cooke, Author of Amor and Psycho

“I’ve loved these moments of feeling alive.” -

- Arianna W.

The zoom link will be emailed to you a few days prior to the workshop.

A recording will be provided to all who register.

Free for Creative Commitment members.

Facilitator:

Meg Hayertz (she/they) is the author of Tarot for Beginners (Althea Press). As the founder of Creative Momentum, she helps writers free their voice, nourish their practice, and finish their project. She holds an MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies. Her fiction has appeared in CALYX, The Louisville Review‍, Press Pause, and elsewhere. Also, she believes in you.