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Green River Writers Workshop

Contact: Alice Carney
carney.aw@gmail.com
(916) 947-0983
Green River Writers Workshops are unique—they push you to write more and expand your skills, in an environment that is intimate, supportive, and non-competitive. We provide writers of all levels of experience with the opportunity to explore the crafts of writing and story telling.

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Snapshots: Writing your Story

Thoughts on words, writing, and storytelling

Writing as Adventure: Peru in Five Photos and Poems

May 13, 2014 Alice Winston Carney
Bromelia at Machu Pichhu
Bromelia at Machu Pichhu

I don’t know about you, but sometimes, when I hear over and over how “beautiful” or “life-changing” or “spectacular” a location is, I don’t want to go. "Can’t be that good."  "I’ll just be disappointed." "Too many tourists." "Everyone lone else is writing about it, what new could I bring?"

Do you ever do that, let your mind talk you out of an adventure, so you don’t do what you have always wanted to do? I have, and I know there is a lot I’ve missed out on in life just because of that negative mind.

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In Alice Winston Carney, Creativity, Memoir writing, Nature writing, Poetry, Prompts, Rumi, Writing tips

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” ― Rumi

February 1, 2014 Alice Winston Carney

MerlinAmerican Kestral   Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, Sacramento, CA   Spring 2013

swallows 2                  Tree Swallows Consumnes River Preserve  Spring 2013

In Alice Winston Carney, Nature writing, Prompts, Rumi, Wildlife Refuges
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Rumi: a poem to start your week of writing

May 6, 2013 Alice Winston Carney

Marsh WrenBirdsong

Birdsong brings relief to my longing I'm just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please universal soul, practice some song or something through me!

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
In Poetry, Rumi, Writing tips
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Snapshots: 
Writing your Story

Thoughts on words, writing, and storytelling



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Alice Winston Carney
Green River Writers Workshops

E-mail: carney.aw@gmail.com 
Phone:  916-947-0983

www.greenriverwritersworkshop.com


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