by nicolebreit | Uncategorized
The 555 Story Challenge is for creative nonfiction writers (as well as memoir-curious poets and fiction writers!) who want to start and finish a handful of new stories in just 5 days – even if they’re feeling too busy, stuck, or uninspired to write. Watch the...
by nicolebreit | Uncategorized
Writing with ease and flow may feel impossible when you’re blocked or stuck. Fortunately, writing doesn’t have to be all hard work and emotional labour for creative nonfiction authors. It can be liberating, playful and yes, even fun! I’m Nicole Breit, award winning...
by nicolebreit | creative writing, Uncategorized
Carl Jung wrote that healing lives in the realm of the imaginal and I believe this is true. Although the first rule of creative nonfiction is “you can’t make stuff up”, one of the most healing stories I’ve ever written was speculative nonfiction. It was entirely...
by nicolebreit | Uncategorized
“[What gives me hope now is…] the writers who are coming into being during a time that threatens the very foundation of a world we like to think of as having progressed from the dark recesses of a bygone world. We are seeing so much of that illusion coming...
by nicolebreit | creative writing online course, creativity, Uncategorized
I love the work I do, helping brave truth tellers write their stories. And I love celebrating when writers are recognized for the work they produce in one of my classes — when they get their first acceptance with a journal, their name on a contest shortlist, or...
by nicolebreit | Uncategorized, writer interview
“What I learned in writing the book was that my life was a story. And by extension, everyone’s life is a story. It’s how you perceive it and the extent to which you’re reactive or proactive that can make it a more or less interesting story. And even if...
