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Building Your Story Through Prompts

Seven Tuesday Sessions

12 – 2 PM EST

Dates: 1/20 – 3/10 (OFF 2/17)

 

This class is designed for writers of every genre and level of experience. My goal is to help you fearlessly dive into your creativity, build confidence as a writer and develop the tools you need to tell your own stories. Each week, we’ll begin with a simple prompt—an image, a phrase, or a “what if” question—and use it to practice skills such as developing a detailed setting, creating characters, building atmosphere, and moving a story forward. You’ll try out short writing exercises, share ideas in a supportive group, and see how small pieces of writing can grow into full stories. Along the way, you’ll pick up techniques for generating ideas, organizing your writing, and revising with clarity. You are guaranteed to leave with fresh strategies, new story beginnings, a stronger sense of your own voice, and confidence in your own ability to imagine and write.

Tuesdays

12:00 pm EST - 2:00 pm EST
January 20, 2026 - March 10, 2026

Online via Zoom (link sent week of class)

Meet the Instructor

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Christine Pakkala

Christine Pakkala is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA. She was a Fulbright Scholar (1994) in Helsinki, Finland, where she translated modern Finnish poetry. She taught 7th and 9th grade English at Horace Mann and has published essays in Salon, BrainChild and Serendipity and is the 2013 winner of the Ladies Home Journal essay contest. She’s the author of Last-But-Not-Least Lola Going Green, which was the winner of the Santa Monica Public Library's Green Prize, and a novel for teens, Jasmine and Maddie, which was a VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocate) Top Shelf pick and a Bank Street Best Book.Christine is working on a memoir and the first chapter of it will be published as an essay in "The Seventh Wave", an arts and literary magazine this fall.

$450.00

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