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Intuitive Writing

Instructor: Shelley Marlow
(full day)

Attendees will be given in-class writing exercises that will hone their powers of intuition and observation. They will each be required to bring in a copy of the first page from a book of their choice. The rest of the class will exercise their intuition to find clues as to the writer's identity. The class will play other games to increase intuitive and observational skills. The instructor will also lead a discussion about individual writing strengths to discover the creative vein within each writer's work.

Objectives and Skills Acquired:

• Improving writing skills and intuition
• Better communication and tactfulness through increased sensitivity to the effects of language/tone
• Fostering patience, cooperation, and understanding within the workplace
• Heightening powers of description and observation
  
  

Shelley Marlow

Shelley Marlow is a writer, visual artist, and palm and tarot reader. Marlow holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and is the author of the novel Two Augusts in a Row in a Row and many nonfiction articles and essays, including "Notes on Kyzyl," which chronicles Marlow's trip to Siberia to meet with shamans. Marlow has also authored two palm-reading advice columns at Wburg.com and Gurl.com. Of "Notes on Kyzyl," Anne Wolfe of NewPages.com wrote: "Her true story of self-discovery takes one on a trip further out of the ordinary, bending one's mind more than much fiction."