Unleash Your Creative Genius

Writing and Photography Workshop

• Do you have a message that you’ve been yearning to share with the world?
• Do you have access to your creative genius?
• Do you want to spend more time exploring your inner and outer world?
• Do you wish your snapshots had more pizazz?
• Do you want to learn how to make the photos you already have less drab and more fab?
• Do you want to start a blog that people will actually read?
• Do you want to get published?
• Do you enjoy visiting beautiful, historic cities?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then it’s time to unleash your creative genius!

Join Meadow Linn, co-author of The Mystic Cookbook and Quest, to unleash your creative genius. Whether you’re a published author, a frequent journal writer, or someone who only picks up a pen to write thank-you cards, this workshop is for you. With carefully-crafted activities that are fun and sometimes outrageous, you’ll ignite your inner muse to unleash a wellspring of creativity. From wandering through a chapel with a divinely created staircase to viewing the bright ristras made from red chiles, at every corner you’ll find inspiration for your photography and your writing. In a safe, loving, and supportive environment, you’ll be encouraged to share your words and your photos. You’ll learn foolproof strategies to captivate your audience with your first sentence and how to wow with your gorgeous pictures.

In addition to honing your writing, you’ll view the world in new ways through the lens of your camera (point-and-shoot, dslr, or iPhone). No experience necessary. Only through seeing in new ways, will you expand your world. You’ll learn how to not only see things differently, but also how to experience your surroundings from multiple perspectives. Taking photographs informs your writing. And, writing informs your photography. In this workshop you’ll learn the rules of photography and you’ll learn when and how to break them. In addition to learning how to compose a photograph and how to get the most out of your device, you’ll also learn which photo-editing apps are best and how to use them to make incredible images.

At the completion of this weekend retreat, you’ll have a body of work you can use to start a blog, write a magazine article, or use as the basis for your next book or presentation. And, you’ll go home with strategies for using social media to share your work.

More about the Class

About Meadow, the workshop leader: In addition to co-authoring two of her own Hay House books (translated into five languages), Meadow has edited 15 non-fiction books for major publishing houses. Meadow shot many of the photographs in The Mystic Cookbook. She is a regular contributor to HealYourLife.com, Australia’s Nature & Health Magazine, and InSpirit Magazine. Meadow’s food/photography blog and bi-monthly column in a Seattle newspaper are hugely popular. As a former schoolteacher, Meadow has taught writing to hundreds of students. She passionately loves grammar and finds playing with sentence structure to be ridiculously fun. Meadow’s photographs have won awards at both the state and national level. In college Meadow was a staff photographer for the school newspaper and for Sports Information (a type of associated press).