When you sign up, your email receipt will contain the date when your class begins.

On the Friday before the class begins, you will get an orientation email with more information.

A new lecture and assignment is sent to all students every Monday during the run of the class. Students participate at their leisure, anytime that week, via email. We know how busy everybody is, which is why we don't make everybody come to a certain webpage at a certain time on that day.

All students correspond directly with the instructor during the course of the class. But, you can always email wwu-support - at - writersweekly.com if you're having any difficulties.

About The Class:

In the busy, triple-tasking, quick-fix world of today, it’s easy to fall into a familiar routine in order to make sure everything gets done comfortably on time. Unfortunately, when we spend so much time rushing through our lives from one thing to the next, sometimes we end up sacrificing our natural spontaneity and creativity; when that happens, we tend to miss out on many of the simple, beautiful and inspiring moments that are directly in front of our faces! In other words, when we go through the world quickly, we tend to view it as humdrum, dull, or just another routine to endure before the weekend comes. However, when we start living and observing more creatively, we discover that the muse is everywhere and creativity (and subsequently our writing) truly comes alive!

Living and observing creatively are significant contributors to one’s success, inspiration, and passion as a creative writer. Creative Workout invites you to delve into your own creativity (yes, everyone, even the most skeptical ones, have their fair share of creativity to tap in to!) and see how that translates to the written page via poetry, memoir, and fiction writing. On any given day, wherever we look, there are yards of inspirational material for writing just waiting to be explored as we navigate the creative landscape of our own lives. Creative Workout invites you to play with words and have fun with them in ways you never imagined! If you enjoy magnetic poetry, then this is the class for you!

What to Expect from Creative Workout!

In this high-impact, pens-on class, we will explore how to turn the contents of your pocket into a poem, a ranting e-mail into a humorous essay, or a discarded postcard into a short story. This class invites beginning, veteran, and all writers in between who are either feeling stuck with their creativity and need a little boost to get back into the flow and passion of writing, or for those who simply think they have nothing to say (or don’t know where to start!) to experience the three primary genres of creative writing. We’ll talk about "the basics" (craft elements) of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in order to get comfortable with developing works on your own.

CLASS GOALS

• Familiarize yourself with poetry, fiction, + creative nonfiction through reading, writing, sharing, and discussion


• Discover the joy of your creativity


• Participate in one final peer review ("Creative Workout!") to learn the basics of giving and receiving feedback


• Grasp the ability to turn ordinary objects, people and events into extraordinary stories


• Complete working drafts in each genre in order to pursue and market your creative writing with confidence as long as you wish

Student Feedback for Roxanne and Creative Workout!:

"It was fun, encouraging, and challenging. I really liked the instructor and appreciated her acceptance of people’s process, as well as her feedback and encouragement."

"It made me feel like writing."

Great challenges—a good "workout!"

"Loved it! The writing exercises were fun, interesting, and enlightening. I learned so much!"

"Excellent! A lot of exposure to all sorts of writing. I had a great time learning a lot!"

"Wonderful class. I would recommend it to anyone. Nice general overview, yet in depth enough to glean new knowledge and appreciation."

"Rox is great! She’s wonderful at pulling memories and emotions from writers."

"Both highly creative and a workout! I was regularly challenged— made pleasantly uncomfortable—by the writing exercises and assignments. Roxanne is a terrific editor and my writing took off under her tutelage as I hoped. She was incredible."

"I enjoyed the closeness that I felt with my fellow students and I felt the exercises pushed me."

"Roxanne is nurturing and inspiring. I have now fully claimed my place as a writer."

"Her creative approach to writing-to unearthing great writing material dormant in our hearts and minds-is wonderful."

"I loved her class! It was the highlight of my week!"

"It was fun, encouraging and challenging. I really liked how Roxanne was so accepting of people's process, as well as her feedback and encouragement."

About Roxanne Sadovsky:

Roxanne Sadovsky, MA, MFA is a Twin Cities freelance writer and teacher. She holds a masters degree in counseling psychology from Antioch University Seattle and creative nonfiction from The University of Minnesota and currently teaches at the Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, and through Minneapolis Community Education, and is the founder of "Write-a-Life," which blends creative writing and journaling with personal and community healing. She currently writes for Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Jewish Life, aislesay.com, and has been published in Minnesota Monthly, Twin Cities Wellness, Utne, The Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, Cafe 80s, Show and Tell, Byline, and many more. She was also a fulltime columnist for the Minnesota Daily from 2001-2003. Her memoir, I Love Lucy and She Loves Me, Too: a Hollywood Memoir, is about growing up latchkey during the 1970s and 80s in Los Angeles. Roxanne also teaches Writing as Healing for WritersWeekly University.

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