Making Space for the Muse

“She shall play such music as was never heard on earth.”
-Sleeping Beauty, The Brothers Grimm

Making Space for the Muse™️ is a writing workshop and creative framework that I developed and now teach to poets and writers of all genres.

The workshop is designed to be delivered as a four-week series of weekly three-hour virtual sessions, allowing participants time to explore, reflect, and begin identifying creative practices that support their writing between meetings.

I have delivered this workshop multiple times in collaboration with literary organizations and in small-group settings. Making Space for the Muse can also be offered as an immersive, in-person retreat over the course of a weekend, an approach especially well suited to deeper, uninterrupted creative engagement.

An electronic workbook with guided exercises and handouts is provided to all participants.

If you would be interested in having me lead this for your organization, or if you would like to be notified next time I offer the course, please send me a note through my Contact Page.

About:

Making Space for the Muse is a workshop designed to jump-start creative productivity. Rather than focusing on craft or generating new work, the workshop helps participants identify the patterns and structures that either support or interfere with their ability to get to the page.

Through guided exercises and shared inquiry, participants begin to formulate a personal system for removing creative blocks and cultivating ideas. The workshop lays a practical foundation, offering participants tools and insights they can continue to draw upon beyond the duration of the sessions.

I developed this framework during a period of my own creative dry spell and now offer it to others as a way of reconnecting with the conditions that support a sustained writing practice.

Teaching Philosophy:

Before we can address improvements in the craft of writing, we have to get to the page in the first place. A person’s creative productivity is often unlocked by discovering and articulating the sometimes hidden factors that either enable writing or slow it down.

As an instructor, my role is to offer a framework, tools, and distinctions that help writers recognize the forces shaping their creative lives and build structures that allow for greater and more reliable access to the creative richness they already possess.

See more at my WriteSpace Houston instructor profile page here.