Ok, I’ll be honest. This wasn’t something that was originally on my fifty creative projects to do when I’m 50 list. However…

I’ve been writing a new book lately – a non-fiction, which is a first for me. I’ve just submitted the pitch for it to my agent – I’m not sure what the title of it is yet, but the tag-line is, A Year of Living Creatively. It’s a weekly creative writing class for those that can’t get to a weekly creative writing class and each week there’s a topic and a related task.

Events of the last few weeks have overtaken me though and it’s become apparent that very few classes will be running over the next few weeks. I was teaching my last creative writing class on Monday night (all foreseeable events having just been cancelled) and I realised how we are all going to have to be more creative to combat isolation.

And then it hit me, that I could offer an on-line class, based on the exercises I’ve been writing for the book, which would bring all the creative people I have taught, met, laughed and argued with over the last few years, together.

I fired off an email that night, almost without thinking, and soon saw there was enough interest to make it viable. And so, here I am. About to start running an online creativity class, which was so not how I saw my life going a few weeks ago…

The course is based around working with the energy of the seasons, and so the first part will be spring and starts this Monday. People who sign up will receive an email  at the start of the week with the week’s topic attached and a creative project to do.

There will be small Facebook groups, around 10 participants in each, where people can share their work, and their experiences of working on each week’s project.

The cost is £8 per 4 weeks for unwaged and £16 per 4 weeks for waged. If you’re interested in joining please email me: aliharperwrites@aol.com. If, like me, you are self-employed and you’ve just watched your earnings plummet, please let me know as I’m sure we can sort something out.

I’m really excited to see what we can all make out of this.

Love to everyone, Ali [image error]