Too Much to Deal With
Who needs so much advice?
I believe we are all inherently creative beings. You know what you want to do. It is mostly a matter of giving yourself the space and time and permission to do it.
If you have critics or judges in your head yelling at you, please see me privately. I can help you with that. And it won't be like endless therapy.
If you are on a healing journey, I can help you with that too. Brave Space helps with both these issues.
14 Things BRAVE SPACE can do for you:
Jumpstart your brain and get you writing again
Help you build a regular writing practice (or any kind of creative practice)
Provide motivation and accountability
Introduce you to new poets and poems
Inspire you to generate new work
Give you new ways to enter the piece you're struggling with
Present craft tips for whatever you're working on
Get you out of writers block or a rut
Gift you with nurturing and inspiring feedback
Allow for some creative release and fun ways to approach your work
Offer you an engaged community of writers
Grant you a window into the process and struggle of other creatives
Increase your capacity for kindness, especially toward yourself
Make you feel less alone
Writing Prompt:
Here is a typical warm-up prompt, the first prompt on the pages of prompts I write for each week. I apologize to my regular Brave Space attendees for posting something you’ve already seen, but I want to let people know what to expect in Brave Space. There’s always a warm-up. This was last week’s:
Warm up with SKIN - what is your or your characters' relationship to skin? What about the things we do to our skin, tattoos or marks or ways we care for our skin? Who is comfortable or uncomfortable in their own skin? When did that change? How did that change? How does that or might that change? What causes transformation within one's skin? What would one have to do to achieve that? Is there a story your family tells about something that happened to someone's skin - a scar, a sunburn, a situation? Or because of someone's skin? Is there a memory you have of a loved one's skin? A scent? A sensuous moment? Have you or your characters experienced the skin to skin moment of mothering a newborn? How do you or your characters relate to other people's skin? Is there a metaphor you can create about skin? Write for 5 or more minutes (set a timer) without stopping. List all the skin ideas that arise. Let one take you on its ride.
Announcements:
This is a community. If you want me to add your announcement, please let me know. You can post a comment with a link, and I’ll add it to the next stack. Please check for what your community members are doing! Support is important!
Deadline extended to June 10th for a Jewish 10 minute play about healing for the Jewish Plays Project.
Go see How to Eat an Orange at LaMama ETC by Catherine Filloux, directed by Elena Araoz. Through June 16th.
Deadline June 14th! Submit a Jewish full length play to Jewish Plays Project
Staged reading Monday, June 17th: Who the F*ck is Ahmed, by Michael Zalta. An absurd and boisterous spin on Ghassan Kanafani's famous novella "Returning to Haifa." 7pm at the Asian American Writers Workshop in Manhattan.
Deadline June 18th! NYFA grant application for $8K: The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award (you must be queer and NY based and willing to fill out the long application)
Deadline June 30th! Submit an application for IRONS IN THE FIRE, a year-round reading series of new plays in development at Fault Line Theatre
Deadline July 3rd! Experiments in Opera is looking for writers! More Here
If you’re in Asheville, NC, my short piece, “Different.” will be performed in the Different Strokes Performing Arts Festival, June 20-23rd.
I'm organizing a party - All You Can Eat! - for after the presentation of WINNERS at The Tank as part of PrideFest on Tuesday, June 25th, 7pm. GET YOUR TICKETS! What is WINNERS? It's my new character-based comedy about a clueless family. Two funerals, two coming-outs, and a lot of forgiveness. It's about late diagnosis autism and being nonbinary. It's about time you got your tickets! CLICK HERE FOR TIX
Brave Space Schedule:
For the week of 6/10 - 6/14/24 Monday 12pm ET Brave Space Tuesday 12pm ET Brave Space (wkshp moves to Thursday) Tuesday 7pm ET Adv. Brave Group Coaching Wednesday 11am ET Adv. Brave Group Coaching Wednesday 7pm ET Brave Space for All Humans w/Sharing Salon Thursday 11am ET Brave Space w/workshop! Friday 12pm ET Brave Space For the week of 6/17 - 6/21/24 Monday 12pm ET Brave Space Tuesday 12pm ET Brave Space Tuesday 7pm ET Adv. Brave Group Coaching Wednesday 11am ET Adv. Brave Group Coaching Wednesday 7pm ET Brave Space for All Humans Thursday 11am ET Brave Space w/workshop! Friday 12pm ET Brave Space For the week of 6/24 - 6/28/24 Monday-Friday Hiatus - no Brave Space & no Brave Group Coaching all week