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Practical Magic for Writers invokes the natural elements to manifest writers' creativity.
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Curriculum
Awaken your magic, expand your consciousness, heighten your awareness, and clarify your mind's abilities. You'll receive written lessons, live webinars, and a private forum all support deep magic and new writing.
Lessons & webinars occur on Thursdays for the magical aid of expansion and loving-kindness, the energy of Jupiter. On alternate Thursdays you will receive either a lesson by email or a LIVE webinar (10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern) that supports the lesson and answers your questions. If you cannot attend the live broadcast, you can get your answers during the replay.
During its 13 weeks, this course teaches you the magical anatomy of creative genius as it operates both in you and in your writing. Each unit will develop within you a different aspect of your relationship with your own creative genius, and you will be writing regularly in a way that feels purposeful and good!
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Write!
Connection & Expression
Connection & Expression
In each unit, you will create new writing that connects you to your magical source and helps creativity flow through you. Your powers will gather as you explore and work on these aspects of GENIUS. They are cultivated within each of the units in a different way.
Awakening!
Orientation & Invocation Learn how to set up sacred space for your writing and understand the four-fold energies of creative genius.
Intrigue!
Curiosity & Discovery Build habits of mind that support curiosity, discovery, and learning and honor these as part of the writer's magical quest.
Insight!
Memory & Reflection Work with the powers of memory and reflection to deepen your writing, including the use of symbol and metaphor.
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Expansion!
Inspiration & Potential Expand your mind's potential and explore new possibilities. Learn to let the mind breathe-in inspiration.
Vision!
Imagination & Dreaming Practice harnessing the power of your waking and sleeping dreams for the power of metaphor and symbol and infuse your writing with resonance and dimension.
Wisdom!
Experience & Manifestation Cultivate your knowledge and belief into a purposeful wisdom that serves you and your readers.
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Magical Creative Community
Support!Find community in online creative & magical gatherings that explore and support possibility, brilliance, depth and wisdom in the writing life.
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Celebration!
Share and celebrate new writing , creative breakthroughs and accomplishments with the community in a private forum.
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Workshop Unit lessons & activities are sent to your email on Thursdays.
Webinars may be attended live or in re-play. Private forum is available 24/7.
This is a generative workshop.
Plus you get this great Bonus! A FREE Coaching Call!
Connect one-on-one with your Professor of Writing Magic, Marya Summers.
Discuss a personalized plan to vanquish your writing demons and get your best work!
Discuss a personalized plan to vanquish your writing demons and get your best work!
Meet your instructor: |
Professor Summers |
MARYA SUMMERS has studied the magical principles of creativity to aid herself and those she teaches. For more than 20 years, she has taught creative writing and essay writing at colleges, universities, and community organizations, including at Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art where she was Poet-in-Residence. She has published hundreds of essays and articles and published and performed her poetry on stages across the country including National Poetry Slam and was published in Freedom to Speak, an anthology of National Poetry Slam's best poetry. A long-time resident of South Florida, she founded and coached the Delray Beach Poetry Slam at Dada, now in its 17th year, and helped launch the annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, now in its 13th year. She now lives in Southern California with her familiar, a three-legged black cat named Oliver.
Rave reviews for Professor Summers
"If you combine the Socratic method with charisma and generosity, you get Professor Summers' teaching style!" 
"Her many years teaching writing as a college instructor combined with her experience as a journalist and creative writer are apparent in her intelligent and creative approaches to teaching writing." 
"If you're a novice, professional, or aspiring writer you will be inspired. If you have a connection to the earth (or want one), you will be inspired. Marya craftily and purposely leads you through a writing a journey that subtly makes you want to write and to write better." 
"For several years, I believed my butt was my most important writing tool -- if it was glued to my chair, and I beat myself hard enough, I could get my novel written. Then, Marya taught me how to live inside the triangle of magic, nature, and writing. In the past I was only able to remain with this energy, or inside the creative womb, for brief periods of time. After working with Marya, I now harvest this energy from within, rather than wait for it, or tirelessly toil without it. Writing has become magical again, and the magic is in the process of connecting to the divine that lives within all of us. Marya is a very loving teacher." 
"Writing + magic = A cool experience. Marya is a scholar, a deep thinker, and a free spirit. I have mad respect for her fresh ideas. You'll ponder, you'll write, and you'll go outside and experience nature. She'll poke you spiritually and mentally causing you to think and re-think your beliefs; I love that!" |
"Marya and her courses and community are simply fabulous. She really knows her stuff, and how to share it in a personable and professional manner. She provides a safe space for creativity, exploration and learning. I learn something new every time I hear anything from Marya." 
"Marya is so smart and funny! She helped guide and encourage my writing along into new spaces, which has been quite a journey! Excellent class, which I highly recommend. So grateful for this fantastic teacher. Thank you so much for your time and patience, Marya! " 
"Marya is a writing guru. The writing prompts and strategies she offers inspire me to engage fully with my writing in innovative ways that break through any blocks. The presentation on each of the elements was fascinating, and the practical writing tasks that went with each of them helped me get further into my novel. Thanks Marya!!" 
"Practical Magic for Writers exceeded my expectations. I was hoping to gain insight on the next round of novel revisions. I felt like it was almost there but something was missing. And I didn't know what it was. I hoped the course would help me figure it out. I did figure it out, and so much more! This course gave me the tools to create a relationship with my creativity and writing. I have been completely transformed as a writer. I would like to take this course again and focus on my writing in general without a specific project in mind and see where the writing exercises lead. If you're considering this class, and you're not sure...take the leap!" 
"You are a phenomenal teacher and an inspiration to writers!" |
Hurry! Space is limited!
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Winners of Winter 2017 Genius Workshop:
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