RBWG Winter 2025 Classes
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Our Guild instructors are taking much needed breaks this winter and so we have just two offerings—both of which focus on establishing a writing discipline! We’ll be back with a full slate of classes for the Spring.
Weekly Calendar
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Register Here Please register first with Maribeth at [email protected] to make sure that the class is running (at times we do not have enough participants to make the class work) or is not already filled. Maribeth will respond to you within a day. Pay Here Because we are committed to keeping our classes small and because we can only continue to do this if participants commit to and pay for all classes, we ask that ONCE WE CONFIRM THE CLASS WILL RUN, you pay for the full class amount up front. If you are interested in a class and cannot pay for it up front, just send Maribeth an email and we’ll work out a payment plan. Please do not pay prior to hearing from Maribeth that the class is running and a seat is available. We are unable to make full refunds if payment is received without confirmation from Maribeth first.
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Our Instructors
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Writing Challenge
This Year I Will Write: A Ten-Day Writing Challenge – Maribeth Fischer (2 weeks)
When: Monday-Friday, January 6-10 and 13-17
Where: Online via Email
Cost: RBWG Members $50; Non-Members $60
Whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being.
— Rich Moody
Once again — but with all new prompts — we will begin the new year by making writing a priority in our lives. For ten days (we’ll skip weekends), our challenge will be to write 500 words a day, starting 2025 with a whopping 5,000 words.
There are times when the most important thing we can do as writers is to get words on the page. Stop fussing, stop editing, stop agonizing over word choice. Just write. Create character sketches, describe landscapes, write a detailed outline of the entire memoir or story or essay or novel. Write the poem without line breaks. Make a list of scenes, then force yourself to pick one and dive in. It’s a fallacy to think you must have it all figured out in order to begin. You don’t.
Each morning, those who accept this challenge will get a short email offering inspiration, and a writing prompt (that there’s no obligation to use).
Each night, participants will email Maribeth one thing: the number of words they wrote. There’s no critique or praise, no sharing of work, just a community of writers all vowing to make writing a priority at the start of this new year.
When: Monday-Friday, January 6-10 and 13-17
Where: Online via Email
Cost: RBWG Members $50; Non-Members $60
Whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being.
— Rich Moody
Once again — but with all new prompts — we will begin the new year by making writing a priority in our lives. For ten days (we’ll skip weekends), our challenge will be to write 500 words a day, starting 2025 with a whopping 5,000 words.
There are times when the most important thing we can do as writers is to get words on the page. Stop fussing, stop editing, stop agonizing over word choice. Just write. Create character sketches, describe landscapes, write a detailed outline of the entire memoir or story or essay or novel. Write the poem without line breaks. Make a list of scenes, then force yourself to pick one and dive in. It’s a fallacy to think you must have it all figured out in order to begin. You don’t.
Each morning, those who accept this challenge will get a short email offering inspiration, and a writing prompt (that there’s no obligation to use).
Each night, participants will email Maribeth one thing: the number of words they wrote. There’s no critique or praise, no sharing of work, just a community of writers all vowing to make writing a priority at the start of this new year.
Poetry
Poetry Daily Diet – Gail Braune Comorat (4 sessions)
When: Tuesdays, January 14, 21, 28 & February 4
Where: Online via Email
Cost: RBWG Members $200; Non-Members $250
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
— Ray Bradbury
Are you in need of some writing discipline? This is a class for writers who are new to poetry and also for those actively working on a poetry collection. If a weekly deadline, prompts, and constructive critiques will encourage you to write daily, then this is the class for you. You’ll work on your own from prompts I’ll send each Tuesday. You’ll read a variety of example poems and read and write and rewrite. Each week you’ll send me one poem for feedback. By the end of our class, you’ll have four new works well on their way to being finished.
When: Tuesdays, January 14, 21, 28 & February 4
Where: Online via Email
Cost: RBWG Members $200; Non-Members $250
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
— Ray Bradbury
Are you in need of some writing discipline? This is a class for writers who are new to poetry and also for those actively working on a poetry collection. If a weekly deadline, prompts, and constructive critiques will encourage you to write daily, then this is the class for you. You’ll work on your own from prompts I’ll send each Tuesday. You’ll read a variety of example poems and read and write and rewrite. Each week you’ll send me one poem for feedback. By the end of our class, you’ll have four new works well on their way to being finished.
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