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The Creative Human: An 8-Week Exploration of Identity, Creativity & Craft
THIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO SACRED CIRCLE MEMBERS. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BECOMING A MEMBER, CLICK HERE.
What if becoming a better writer had just as much to do with understanding the human being doing the writing as it did with learning the craft?
The Creative Human is an 8-week creative writing and self-exploration course for women who want to go deeper—not only into their writing, but into themselves. Together, we’re going to explore the things that inevitably make their way onto the page whether we realize it or not: our identities, relationships, environments, desires, conflicts, beliefs, patterns, questions, and lived experiences. We’ll talk about taking up space and allowing our perspectives to be seen. We’ll examine who we are, the roles we carry, the worlds we live inside, what gets in our way, what keeps repeating beneath the surface of our lives, and what the hell all of it might mean. Then we’ll ask the question at the center of any creative life: What can I make from this?
And yes, we’re still going to learn the craft. Every larger human conversation will be paired with a literary element—point of view, characterization, dialogue, setting, conflict, theme, imagery, metaphor, symbolism, and plot—because I don't think our humanity and our craft are separate things. The way you understand identity changes the way you create characters. The relationships you've lived influence the way you understand dialogue and subtext. Your environment shapes what you notice. Your conflicts teach you about tension. The questions you keep returning to become themes, and the things you've lived, imagined, desired, loved, lost, survived, and wondered about become the raw material from which art can be made.
Who Is This For?
The Creative Human is for women who want more than a traditional writing class. You may be working on a novel, memoir, poetry collection, essays, several projects at once, or nothing particularly defined yet. What matters is that you want to become a stronger writer while also understanding the woman behind the writing—your identity, voice, experiences, desires, questions, and the creative life you want to build.
What Will You Get Out of It?
Over eight weeks, you'll deepen your understanding of literary craft while getting to know your creative self more intimately. You'll create new work in whatever genre speaks to you, uncover some of the questions and themes that keep finding their way into your writing, and begin thinking beyond a single project toward the larger body of work you might create throughout your life. The goal isn't to leave as some perfectly actualized Creative Human™; it's to leave knowing yourself, your voice, what you want to say, and what you want to do with it next a little better.
What We’ll Explore
Week One: Your Perspective Deserves Somewhere to Exist — We begin with voice, visibility, and the importance of recording and sharing our perspectives while exploring point of view as the consciousness through which we experience and tell a story.
Week Two: Becoming the Creative Human — We turn inward to creative identity, self-perception, desire, and who we want to become, using characterization to explore how human beings are revealed through wants, contradictions, behaviors, and choices.
Week Three: The Roles We Carry — We examine who we are as mothers, daughters, partners, friends, caregivers, professionals, artists, and everything in between while using dialogue and subtext to explore the complicated relationships between ourselves and others.
Week Four: The Worlds We Live Inside — We look at how our homes, communities, cultures, political climates, and internal environments shape us, connecting those conversations to setting and atmosphere on the page.
Week Five: What Gets in the Way — We get real about resistance, fear, contradiction, responsibility, self-doubt, and all the other shit that complicates what we want while learning how conflict and tension create movement in writing.
Week Six: What Lies Beneath — We pay attention to the patterns, questions, and experiences that keep repeating in our lives and explore theme as the deeper emotional and philosophical conversation underneath our work.
Week Seven: The Art of Alchemy — We ask what we can make from everything we've lived, felt, noticed, and imagined while using imagery, metaphor, and symbolism to transform experience into art.
Week Eight: Write What Comes Next — We bring everything together through message, desire, agency, and meaningful change, using plot to explore what happens when understanding becomes choice—and deciding where we want our creative lives and our work to go from here.
Choose the Level of Support You Want
Standard Enrollment — $80
Come for the whole experience. You'll receive all eight downloadable lessons, recommended readings, creative application and reflection prompts, and access to our weekly 90-minute live group conversations. This option is for you if you want to explore the course independently and don't need individualized feedback on the writing you create.
Four Rounds of Editorial Feedback — $150
Want me in the work with you, but don't necessarily need me every week? This option includes everything above plus personalized developmental and craft feedback on four pieces of writing you create during the course. You can submit Weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7; Weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8; or finish the course and choose the four pieces you most want me to look at afterward.
Eight Rounds of Editorial Feedback — $220
If you want the fullest level of individualized support, this option includes everything in the course plus personalized developmental and craft feedback on all eight pieces you create. You can send them to me as we move through the course so my feedback can inform what you do next, or complete the full eight weeks first and submit your work afterward.
Whichever option you choose, you're getting the same eight-week journey and the same place in the conversation. The feedback tiers simply give you the option to have me step more deeply into the writing itself with you.
Enrollment opens Monday, August 17. The first lesson arrives Friday, September 11, and our first live meeting is Thursday, September 17 at 8 PM EST.
THIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO SACRED CIRCLE MEMBERS. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BECOMING A MEMBER, CLICK HERE.
What if becoming a better writer had just as much to do with understanding the human being doing the writing as it did with learning the craft?
The Creative Human is an 8-week creative writing and self-exploration course for women who want to go deeper—not only into their writing, but into themselves. Together, we’re going to explore the things that inevitably make their way onto the page whether we realize it or not: our identities, relationships, environments, desires, conflicts, beliefs, patterns, questions, and lived experiences. We’ll talk about taking up space and allowing our perspectives to be seen. We’ll examine who we are, the roles we carry, the worlds we live inside, what gets in our way, what keeps repeating beneath the surface of our lives, and what the hell all of it might mean. Then we’ll ask the question at the center of any creative life: What can I make from this?
And yes, we’re still going to learn the craft. Every larger human conversation will be paired with a literary element—point of view, characterization, dialogue, setting, conflict, theme, imagery, metaphor, symbolism, and plot—because I don't think our humanity and our craft are separate things. The way you understand identity changes the way you create characters. The relationships you've lived influence the way you understand dialogue and subtext. Your environment shapes what you notice. Your conflicts teach you about tension. The questions you keep returning to become themes, and the things you've lived, imagined, desired, loved, lost, survived, and wondered about become the raw material from which art can be made.
Who Is This For?
The Creative Human is for women who want more than a traditional writing class. You may be working on a novel, memoir, poetry collection, essays, several projects at once, or nothing particularly defined yet. What matters is that you want to become a stronger writer while also understanding the woman behind the writing—your identity, voice, experiences, desires, questions, and the creative life you want to build.
What Will You Get Out of It?
Over eight weeks, you'll deepen your understanding of literary craft while getting to know your creative self more intimately. You'll create new work in whatever genre speaks to you, uncover some of the questions and themes that keep finding their way into your writing, and begin thinking beyond a single project toward the larger body of work you might create throughout your life. The goal isn't to leave as some perfectly actualized Creative Human™; it's to leave knowing yourself, your voice, what you want to say, and what you want to do with it next a little better.
What We’ll Explore
Week One: Your Perspective Deserves Somewhere to Exist — We begin with voice, visibility, and the importance of recording and sharing our perspectives while exploring point of view as the consciousness through which we experience and tell a story.
Week Two: Becoming the Creative Human — We turn inward to creative identity, self-perception, desire, and who we want to become, using characterization to explore how human beings are revealed through wants, contradictions, behaviors, and choices.
Week Three: The Roles We Carry — We examine who we are as mothers, daughters, partners, friends, caregivers, professionals, artists, and everything in between while using dialogue and subtext to explore the complicated relationships between ourselves and others.
Week Four: The Worlds We Live Inside — We look at how our homes, communities, cultures, political climates, and internal environments shape us, connecting those conversations to setting and atmosphere on the page.
Week Five: What Gets in the Way — We get real about resistance, fear, contradiction, responsibility, self-doubt, and all the other shit that complicates what we want while learning how conflict and tension create movement in writing.
Week Six: What Lies Beneath — We pay attention to the patterns, questions, and experiences that keep repeating in our lives and explore theme as the deeper emotional and philosophical conversation underneath our work.
Week Seven: The Art of Alchemy — We ask what we can make from everything we've lived, felt, noticed, and imagined while using imagery, metaphor, and symbolism to transform experience into art.
Week Eight: Write What Comes Next — We bring everything together through message, desire, agency, and meaningful change, using plot to explore what happens when understanding becomes choice—and deciding where we want our creative lives and our work to go from here.
Choose the Level of Support You Want
Standard Enrollment — $80
Come for the whole experience. You'll receive all eight downloadable lessons, recommended readings, creative application and reflection prompts, and access to our weekly 90-minute live group conversations. This option is for you if you want to explore the course independently and don't need individualized feedback on the writing you create.
Four Rounds of Editorial Feedback — $150
Want me in the work with you, but don't necessarily need me every week? This option includes everything above plus personalized developmental and craft feedback on four pieces of writing you create during the course. You can submit Weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7; Weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8; or finish the course and choose the four pieces you most want me to look at afterward.
Eight Rounds of Editorial Feedback — $220
If you want the fullest level of individualized support, this option includes everything in the course plus personalized developmental and craft feedback on all eight pieces you create. You can send them to me as we move through the course so my feedback can inform what you do next, or complete the full eight weeks first and submit your work afterward.
Whichever option you choose, you're getting the same eight-week journey and the same place in the conversation. The feedback tiers simply give you the option to have me step more deeply into the writing itself with you.
Enrollment opens Monday, August 17. The first lesson arrives Friday, September 11, and our first live meeting is Thursday, September 17 at 8 PM EST.