Mini-Camp: Processing Change Through Writing

Processing Change Through Writing
Personal Catharsis Meets Character Distinction
Tues. Feb. 4th, 5-6:15pm (LA Time) via zoom
by Founder Jeffrey Gordon (JG)
RSVPs will be accepted until noon the day of the event. Once you RSVP, zoom will control your access.
Please join JG for a Mini-Camp to share stories of creative expression and various formats for working through life challenges. An avid writer of personal journals since the seventh grade (Mrs. Hirsch’s class in Chicago), JG has often utilized journaling toward the invention of stream-of-consciousness exercises and making lists to identify his own voice and to process difficult experiences of loss to shift perspective.
In addition to the very recent wildfires, 2025 has marked a time of change–and a draft of a story–even just the key sequences of 1, 3, 6, and 9 that comprise the key structural events of a one-page story map like the renowned 3-6-3–can be like a raft to steer to the other side of one’s personal river.
As our Pro Members are familiar with the Project Unity Page–a laminate of decisions, project conceits, components, characters, and modifiers that through their selection will align to determine the reader’s or audience’s experience of your work, Writers Boot Camp’s core tools can also be adapted to turn focus on the differentiation of one’s creative voice and career direction.
In that manner, you may in your private writing depict yourself as the Main Character in your genre story (usually drama, though hopefully with at least some comedic relief). While many personal, pet projects are often the ones that don’t get done or seen, on occasion it’s the highly personal expression that does elevate to launch a writer due to the authenticity of voice and unfiltered candor. When not purposely archetypical (emphasis on typical), a character can be seen and experienced by others more universally due to the personal approach.
It’s usually helpful to recall that most characters in any story are the main character in their own life before and beyond the current adventure–even if we never see how that role plays out. In fact, in life we often encounter people in less than their full dimension, meaning that we don’t always see the full prism of their disposition but solely the limited role of that interaction.
The Mini-Camp will focus more on ideas for free expression and cathartic exercises and topics than on career priorities.
For our alumni and friends who have been displaced and lost much more, we’re sharing the above New Year’s photo again. Let’s have a January re-start.