Check out some of the courses Hannah teaches.  Email Hannah for details. 

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Special One Night/Afternoon Intensives

An Evening of Writing

Breaking Through The Block

Does the phrase "writer's block" describe your current writing life? Whether you have been blocked just a few weeks or years, this workshop shows you practical techniques that will not only help you knock down that proverbial wall, but will also help you continue to write forever. Writer's need only a pen, a notebook, and an open mind.

How To Finish What You've Started

The title of this workshop says it all. Hannah will provide you the tools to help you change your perspective on your procrastination, enabling you to go ahead and finish that novel, short story, or memoir that's collecting dust on your proverbial (or literal) shelf. Students must bring their work-in-progress to this class, even if students only have a few pages or an outline. By the end of four hours, you will be able to finish what you started!

Using Your Own Life To Create Powerful Fiction

Have you ever said, "Man, my life is stranger than fiction!" Or, "No one would believe this! I have got to write  a book!"  Maybe you want to write it down but are afraid of what the people in your life might think. One way to get around that is to take your real life and use the interesting parts in your fiction or use your emotional truths to create extraordinary compelling stories. Learn the difference between factual and emotional truth, how to tap into discovering your emotional truth and use it to write unique and better-than-fiction stories.

The Basics of Storytelling

Even if you have written a rough draft, everyone needs to understand the different parts of a story. The basics of plot, characterization, point-of-view, and theme will be covered as well as the variety of writing techniques writers can use to create effective and emotionally evocative stories.

How to Read like a Writer (and use what you learn in your work)

This is a crash course in the connection between literary analysis and writing. In this class students will learn how to analyze passages of a variety of genres  of fiction–deconstruct the writing of both good and bad writers. Then, students will discover/uncover how these writers succeeded or failed in their attempts to create great work. Once students understand how good writing is created, they will practice the techniques they uncovered on their own work.   

These classes run weekly, "live" or online.

Journal Writing

Remember your old diary from sixth grade, the one place where you let yourself pour your heart and soul out? Do you find yourself longing for that same inner sense of freedom you had as a child? What you need to do is journal. As adults, that is a chore but as a child, it was bliss. In this two hour workshop, you will recapture that same freedom of expression you had as a kid, pushing past the inner-censor and releasing everything on to paper. Then, you will learn how to take this process into your writing projects so that they become effortless and fun.

Discover Your Writer's Voice 

Storytelling Techniques

Using the journal as a writer's tool, Hannah helps students identify the stories they wish to write–from their own lives, from their dreams, or from their imaginations. Whether it is fact or fiction, whether it is a memoir piece or fantasy, in this workshop students will walk away with the ability to tell a story–beginning, middle, and end. Stories will be effortless to write and ideas flowing.

Critique and Feedback is a special class for those of you who want to focus on a specific piece that needs to be polished.  Students will choose one piece that they feel needs work and bring this to each class where both students and teacher (me) will critique it.  My critique will be both verbal and written– a service that freelance editors charge a whole lot for!  The only thing you need to do is bring enough copies of the piece to class and also, and more importantly, be receptive to the critique and feedback.    This is not the same as a writing group or a critique group.  This a structured class with one person (me) guiding the group in appropriate ways to give and receive criticism. 

Weekend Workshop

Write a Short Story

If you have trouble setting deadlines and finishing stories, this is the class for you. In this workshop, Hannah teaches you about the different elements of narrative and demonstrates how to take those elements and create a cohesive short story. By the end of this workshop, you will have the rough draft of a short story!

Write A Novel in Twelve Weeks

If you have always wanted to write a novel and are willing to dedicate every spare moment for three months to writing every single day, then this is the class for you. An open mind and lots of ideas help too. By the end of this workshop, you will have the first draft for a novel!

The Master Class

Plot Workshop

You’re knee-deep into a writing project and then suddenly, you stop, look around, and realize you have no idea where you are or where you’re going. You feel lost, powerless, and alone– like driving in Boston without a map.  In this workshop you will practice a technique that helps you organize and map out the structure of your story. After all, without a map, we sometimes get lost.  Now, you will create that map and never get lost again.

Character Workshop

So you’ve written a short story, novel, or memoir, and the characters are boring or flat.  You want them to be three-dimensional and real but don’t know how to do it.  In this workshop learn a powerful technique for creating or enhancing characters and learn how to write authentic dialogue.  Lift flat characters from the page and make them dance!

Writing & Literature

This class teaches students how to analyze and study classic and contemporary literature as a means to learning writing techniques that can be applied to their own writing. Students will have a required reading list that should be completed before the workshop.

Workshop for Educators  and Students

 Releasing The Writer Within™ is a holistic writing program for students and teachers.  Workshops are offered for professional development, perfect for in-service days, and for enrichment, no matter the student’s performance level.  This program is for everyone in your school.  Over ten different workshops are available, and each can be adapted to your school’s schedule and needs.  From fiction writing to expository writing, workshops are designed for all students’ writing needs.

Special Collaborative Workshops

Yoga & Writing: Hannah joins Tracy Cooper from Bristol Yoga Studio

Release The Creative Woman Within: Hannah joins Julie Brigidi from Bristol Workshops In Photography

Host a workshop in your home! Hannah will come to your home and teach one of her unique workshops. Special group rates available.