A Writing Workshop with Marita Golden Liberated My Muse
So, I'm sure you're wondering who is the freckled boy to the left. No, he's not my long-lost son or any relation actually. I don't know him. I found this getty image of a freckled boy as I looked for a photo of a kid who looked like the boy Marita Golden showed us earlier during our writing workshop to inspire us to write for ten minutes. Yes, Marita Golden ! Award-winning writer, Marita Golden facilitated a writing workshop today at DC's Martin Luther King library that I had reported on last month and decided I was going to take part in. Boy, was I glad that I did. The three-hour workshop gave me some wonderful inspiration as a writer and as I prepare for my own writer workshop series as a creative coach. One of the activities that she had us do was have us look at a photo of a little boy who looked similar to the one to the left and began to write a narrative about him. Many of those who were called on to share what they wrote wrote about the boy from a victim per...