WRITING YOUR LEGACY
A Monthly Group meeting with Kimberly Crum
On the first Wednesday of each month
6 to 8 PM
by Zoom videoconference
Cost: $20 per session
At the Shape and Flow studio, we write for publication or posterity. We learn common craft skills—the use of details and scene to recreate true stories. We try to create real life characters on the page. We hope our stories will endure. Most of all, we enjoy the writing process as an end-in-itself.
There are differences between writing for posterity or publication. The legacy writer has a specific audience—descendants— that will be interested in your story. The legacy writer does not need to worry over format, literary style, or appeal to contemporary readers and publishers. Legacy writing will pass on yours or your family’s memories, with specific detail and in your authentic voice.
Before each legacy writing meeting, students receive a short reading and a writing prompt. Each participant will come to the meeting with a first draft to share for comments.
All are welcome . . . both the young at heart and old souls!
The instructor, Kimberly Crum enjoyed a social work career before she became a creative writer. She listened to people’s stories then, as now. After ten years teaching undergraduate composition and literature at Spalding University, Kim started her business Shape & Flow Writing Instruction. There she teaches memoir and personal essay to aspiring writers who want to tell true stories, for posterity or publication. Kim has published in journalistic, literary, and academic venues. She is the co-editor with writer and educator Bonnie Omer Johnson, of The Boom Project: Voices of a Generation—a collection of essays, poems, fiction and short memoir by the Baby Boom Generation of the Ohio River Valley. This book contains many fine examples of literary legacy writing and is available at Amazon, Carmichael’s, the Louisville Free Public Library and through the book website—theboomprojectbook.com
Inquire or enroll directly to Kimberly Crum at shapeandflow@gmail.com
