826LA: Learning to Love the Process

Please note: a deposit of $20 is required to reserve one space in a workshop. You can send the deposit check, made out to 826LA, to: 826LA West, Workshops attn: Julius, 685 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291. Your deposit check will be destroyed upon completion of the workshop.

Atención: se requiera un depósito de $20 para reservar un espacio en un taller. Al terminar el taller, se destruirá su cheque del depósito.

Learning to Love the Process
Taught by Zoë Ruiz and Ryan Pittington
Ages 14 – 18
Saturday, February 27, 2010
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
This workshop takes place at 826LA East

The ultimate goal of this class is for each student to learn to love the process of creative writing, which can be powerful, instructive, and fun. Oftentimes we become so focused on the end result that we forget how fun and important the actual process of writing is. In this class, we will use several Learning To Love You More creative exercises, created by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, as well as exercises from Lynda Barry's What It Is. Each creative exercise will allow students to explore their own individual writing process and will focus on memory and imagination.

Zoë Ruiz is our Volunteer Coordinator and Programs Assistant. She was a volunteer and intern and 826 Valencia, where she assisted with the weekly newspaper workshop. She also taught two other workshops, focusing on nature poems and picaresque stories. She's excited to teach her first workshop in Los Angeles with her long-time friend.

After studying literature and fiction writing at UC Santa Cruz, Ryan Pittington moved to the Bay Area, where he became a volunteer for 826 Valencia and an intern at Small Press Distribution. These days, he fills his time outside of work with reading, writing, and the creative process, focusing on personal growth and self-healing through art.