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Summoning the Muse: Creating a Writing Practice that Works, with Matt Del Busto
6 weeks long = $480 total / person
meets Mondays 7—9 pm Eastern time
virtual (Zoom + Google Docs)
Why is it so easy to think about writing but so hard to actually do it? How can we move past the blank page?
In this all-genre workshop, we’ll learn how writing routines and daily rituals can move us to start creating inspiration from our everyday lives rather than waiting for it to strike. We’ll learn to distrust concepts such as “writer’s block” and instead engage in weekly writing experiments and daily routines of our choosing to help us beckon the muse on our own time. While participants will be invited to share the work they’ve written, this is a workshop focused on generating work, not critiquing it.
Throughout these six weeks, we’ll learn about the habits of successful artists across a variety of mediums, including writers within different genres. This reading will deepen our understanding of the creative process and help us learn tricks from others that we can add to our creative toolboxes. Participants will leave this workshop with a better understanding of where we might take our writing next and the confidence that we now know how to take it there.
Writers of all experience, genre, and background are encouraged to apply.
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Matt Del Busto is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where he was a finalist for the 2021 Hopwood Graduate Poetry contest as well as the 2021 Hopwood Graduate Nonfiction contest. A native Hoosier, he studied creative writing and Spanish at Butler University before teaching English in Malaga, Spain as a Fulbright grantee.
Matt has held a variety of teaching and tutoring positions, including being a mentor teacher for high schoolers at the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop, an ESL teacher for adults, and a peer tutor for Butler University’s Writers’ Studio. Currently, he lives, writes, and teaches (and cooks!) in Ann Arbor.
