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Find Your Own Voice

An Online Writing Course

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An 8-week Online Course for Beginning Writers Living with Chronic Illness.

Write from where you are.
Write as who you are.

If you live with a chronic illness--rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, lupus, cancer, or another condition that keeps you indoors or limits your energy--you already carry a rich inner life. This course is designed to help you turn that inner life into language.

Find Your Own Voice is a gentle and encouraging online writing course for beginning writers who want to discover their personal writing voice. No prior writing experience is required. What is required is curiosity, openness, and a willingness to show up exactly as you are.

This cousre understands fluctuating energy levels, pain, fatique, and brain fog. Writing is approached not as pressure or performance, but as exploration, expression and connection.

What This Course Is About

Every writer has a voice—but many beginning writers haven’t yet learned how to hear it, trust it, or shape it on the page. Over eight weeks, you will:

  • Experiment with first‑, second‑, and third‑person narration

  • Explore description, narrative, poetry and dialogue

  • Learn how point of view, metaphor, image, and emotion shape voice

  • Read short excerpts from great writers with distinct styles

  • Write 1–2 pages per week in a supportive, low‑pressure environment

Most importantly, you will learn that your lived experience—your perceptions, rhythms, questions, and way of seeing—is not a limitation. It is your material.

How the Course Works

We meet online once a week for two hours.

During each session we will discuss short readings by notable authors, explore a specific writing technique, share and discuss our own writing, and offer supportive, constructive feedback

Course structure

  • Length: 8 weeks

  • Live class: 2 hours per week (online)

  • Bonus follow-up meeting: Several weeks after the course ends, we meet again to reflect on how your writing has developed

  • Weekly writing: 1-2 pages in different genres

  • Community blog: Comment on classmates' work on your own schedule

Weekly Journey

Week 1 — Beginnings

Getting to know each other, writing about ourselves, and exploring our goals as writers.

Week 2 — First Person: "I"

Narrative and personal storytelling.

Week 3 — Second Person: "You"

Exploring intimacy, distance, and direct address.

Week 4 — Third Person: Character and Perspective

Understanding how perspective shapes a story.

Week 5 — Metaphor, Image, and Emotion

Using language to create vivid experiences and emotional resonance.

Week 6 — Dialogue

Learning how characters reveal themselves through speech.

Week 7 — Point of View

Exploring how changing perspective changes meaning.

Week 8 — Looking Back, Looking Forward

Reflecting on what we've learned and where we want our writing to go next.

Who This Course Is For

This course is for you if:

  • You are living with a chronic illness and need an accessible, online course

  • You want to write but feel unsure how to begin

  • You've been told you're "not a writier" and don't beleive that anymore

  • You want structure and freedom

  • You value thoughtful reading, dissucssion, and community

You do not need to:

  • Have formal training

  • Share painful personal details unless you want to

  • Write perfectly--or even confidently

How to Register

Registration includes:

  • Eight live online classes

  • Weekly reading and writing prompts

  • Access to the private online community

  • Instructor and peer feedback

  • Bonus follow‑up session

Class size is intentionally limited to create a supportive and engaging environment.

To Register:

  1. Fill out the registration form and (optional) questionnaire

  2. You will be redirected to paypal for payment

  3. Receive a confirmation email with course details

  4. Join the online classroom

Find Your Voice

Registration is limited to keep the group intimate and supportive.

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A Final Word

Writing is not about proving anything.
It is about paying attention.
This course offers time, structure, and community to help you listen
for your own voice—and begin trusting it on the page.
You are welcome here.

Writer & Writing Teacher

I've been writing and teaching writing for many years. This course grew out of a conviction I keep returning to: that every person has a way of seeing the world that is worth developing and sharing — and that most beginning writers simply haven't yet had the right conditions to discover it.

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