Fearless Writing

Fearless Writing^™: the map that gets you there

A participatory, experiential workshop, supportive yet challenging, Fearless Writing™ was developed more than fifteen years ago by Crescent Dragonwagon (left, photo Susan Storch). The seminar is exhilarating, audacious, useful and individual. As you map the creative process with CD, you'll clarify where you are at present, where you want to go, and how you might get there. Fearless Writing™ is for you, whether you're an experienced professional, an "I've always wanted to write but..." or someone active in non-writing disciplines. (artistic and otherwise) who wants to find a new edge, surprise yourself, and push your limits. Those who have taken it include novelists, poets, screenwriters, truck-drivers, songwriters, doctors, a weaver/sheep-farmer, children's book authors, cookbook writers, housewives, innkeepers, professors, book reviewers, teachers, and advertising executives. The mix of folks and professions in a typical Fearless strengthens the group.

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you can't drive with the emergency brake on

Why is the act of writing often uncomfortable? Why are the ideas and sentences we form mentally frequently so much clearer than what comes out on paper? What keeps us from finding, and writing in the true and distinctive voice we may sense as present but elusive within ourselves? What's happening when we feel blocked or tense, when we procrastinate? How can writing become easier, less painful? Might both the process and end result of writing be instead energizing, habitual, natural, and filled with clarity and surprise both for writer and (eventually) reader? Hundreds of writers and would-be writers, in all genres, who have taken Fearless Writing™ have found the answers to these questions.

less angst, more ease

Through the direct experience of self-discovery and writing which take place in this exhilarating workshop, attendees gain a profound, but practical, usable understanding of how the art, craft, habits, and practice of writing intersect, and where and how they may be stopping themselves. With the individually self-developed tools and strategies to act on this knowledge lastingly, writing and other creative acts do not end with the workshop, but can naturally become part of every day.
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your fearless leader

Crescent Dragonwagon, described by the Chicago Tribune as "an earthy, yarn-spinning woman," is the author of over 40 published books. Her second novel, THE YEAR IT RAINED, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her fifth cookbook, PASSIONATE VEGETARIAN, won a James Beard Award. Her fourteenth and seventeenth books for children, HALF A MOON AND ONE WHOLE STAR and HOME PLACE, received, respectively, the Coretta Scott King Award and the Golden Kite Award.

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Fearless Writing^™ in Italy

In 2003, CD added a new dimension to Fearless Writing™ when she brought the workshop to Emilia-Romangna, Italy, and incorporated culinary touring and hands-on study. In this generous country, inner discovery melds seamlessly with outer exploration, as mornings of writing give way to afternoons in the Italian countryside. Sensual, intimate travel, with an emphasis on culinary experience in the context of culture and agriculture, open out intoxicatingly family farmhouse kitchens, orchards, farms, and vineyards. Crescent's style combines yet contrasts with of our delightful Italian hosts, Marcello & Raffa.

"Crescent Dragonwagon's Fearless Writing course
is both inspiring and original. I loved it, and have recommended it
often, to both established and aspiring writers. "

--- Julia Child, author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking
(among much else)

Like the ideas here? Want to know more about your fearless leader? For a fuller bio of Crescent's work and life, click here. Or, delve more deeply into one of her books, a James Beard Award-winning culinary memoir at passionatevegatarian.com.

E-mail: for more workshop information: crescent@dragonwagon.com
for more information on Fearless in Italy: info@bluone.com
to register for American workshops: crescent@dragonwagon.com

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Fearless Writing™: the map that gets you there