Writing and Literature is a BRAND NEW writing workshop that 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.

Releasing The Creative Woman Within™ : Release your inner writer, artist, and photographer in this two-day intensive yet fun workshop.  Three professional women will guide you through powerful, probing exercises designed to help you release the creative person within through writing, photography, and expressive arts. Participants will experience a series of fun but probing exercises intended to help you release the creative person within.  We will help you let go of the critic inside your head and free yourself of the self-consciousness that prevents you from expressing yourself artistically.  Our approach is perfect for everybody.

Releasing The Writer Within™ : Journal Writing. 2 Hour workshop. 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, Hannah will help you recapture that same freedom of expression you had as a kid, pushing past the inner-censor and releasing everything on to paper.

Releasing The Writer Within™ : Discover Your Writer's Voice Through Journaling. 4 hour workshop. Also runs in 4/8 week semesters . Are you having trouble completing writing projects or facing a bad case of writer’s block? What you need is to find your writer’s voice, the natural voice within.  In this workshop you will learn several techniques that will jump-start your writing and help you complete projects.

Releasing The Writer Within™: Story-telling Through Journaling. 4 hour workshop. Using the journal as a writer's tool, Hannah helps students identify the stories they wish to write–from their own lives. 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!

Releasing The Writer Within™: Story-telling Through Journaling. 4/8 week semesters . You've found your voice and unblocked yourself but still can't seem to get that story or novel completed. In this workshop, Hannah builds on the foundation of Releasing The Writer Within™ and takes you to the next level. By the end of this workshop, your projects will sparkle!

Releasing The Writer Within™: 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!

Releasing The Writer Within™: 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!

 
Create Memorable Characters: Two two-hour sessions.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!

Creating Authentic Plot: Two two-hour sessions.  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.

Beginner/Intermediate Writer’s Workshop. You used to write. Or, maybe you always wanted to write but don’t know how to begin. In either case, you’re seeking a time and place to play with words.  Maybe you want to learn (or re-learn) how to allow yourself to really let go on paper (or screen). Or, maybe you’ve always dreamed of sitting down and getting lost in your own world of words. If any of the above apply to you, Releasing The Writer Within Beginner/Intermediate Writer’s Workshop us the class just for you.  Hannah will show you how to push past fear and doubt and release your inner writer, making your writer’s dream come true.

Advanced Writer’s Workshop. You’ve written a fantastic rough draft and are ready to revise…but don’t know where to begin.  If that’s the case, you need to workshop your novel, short story, or novella in Hannah’s Releasing The Writer Within Advanced Writer’s Workshop.  In this ten-week class, students will study the elements of narrative and learn how to weave them authentically into existing pieces.  Students will learn how to cut out unnecessary exposition and hone their “masterpiece”.

Releasing The Writer Within™ : THE MASTER CLASS. 16 week workshop. Journaling and storytelling in one class! You will learn how to:

NEW! Releasing The Writer Within™: For Educators and Their 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. RWW was developed by a professional, certified high school educator with nine years of teaching experience, including a masters degree in education.

Host a workshop in your home! Hannah will come to your home and teach one of her unique workshops. Special group rates available. Host receives 50% discount.

*Prices for workshops vary and special discounts are offered to members of Releasing The Writer Within™: A Writing & Learning Organization. Please email for details: hrgoodman@cox.net   Additionally, one-on-one coaching and tutoring are available. Please email  hrgoodman@cox.net for details.