Write Yourself Free:

A Workshop for Writers and Others Who Want to Write
Monday June 8, 7-9 pm
This two-hour workshop is designed both for published writers and for those who feel that they want to write, but don’t have a writer’s toolbox. ‘Write Yourself Free’ is designed by Susan Bedsow Horgan, CPCC, Emmy award-winning producer/writer from daytime television, screenwriter, and personal life coach and by Patrick McCord, a college professor specializing in writing instruction and cognitive narration. Susan and Patrick bring their varied experience to address some of the intrinsic issues and difficulties in creative- and nonfiction-writing. This workshop will offer strategies for conceptualizing projects, tapping inspiration, overcoming blocks, and understanding the story as a fundamental form of logic and communication.  Patrick McCord has a PhD in Cognitive Narrative Theory (English) from the University of Georgia; he is an award-winning poet, published short story author, and he has sold teleplays and a screenplay. Before launching his own writing career, he worked in project development at both NY’s Circle in the Square and LA’s Mark Taper Forum. As a college professor, he has specialized in story- and identity-cognition in film and literature. His writing students at the University of South Carolina, Upstate, were regular award winners in the annual university-wide competitions. Patrick believes that a lively imagination is essential to enjoying life, and that writing can charge and even transform the imagination.