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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Artists & writers — want to turn your visuals into stories? 🖌️✍️
Prompt: “A lost object.”

Creative Writing for Visual Artists — spots still open!

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#CreativeWriting #StoryPrompt

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · 5d

If you liked that prompt, you’d probably enjoy my 5-week class, Creative Writing for Visual Artists.
It’s about turning what you see into what you say.
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Are you a visual artist who wants to write? Are you burning with a story, but can't find the words? Are you a private scribbler? Or maybe you're already writing but you've hit a plateau? This course w...

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Artists + writers: try this one —
✍️ “The last time you saw them.”
What image comes up first?
(Part of my class Creative Writing for Visual Artists.)
#CreativeWriting #VisualArt

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · 13d

🎨 Writers, meet your inner artist. Artists, meet your inner writer.
Join our Creative Writing for Visual Artists class—explore writing as a practice, unlock fresh ideas, and let words bring your art to life.
🖊️ Limited spots! Sign up here → bit.ly/42QXzGe
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#CreativeWriting

Hand writing in journal with rainbow of colors

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · 14d

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · Sep 1

I just read a beautiful essay by Doug Crandell in @thesunmagazine.bsky.social -- an homage to his brother that made me cry. I had to tell about it. www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/bro... #Essay #Writing

Brother, Electric

He grabs my hand, and static electricity snaps between us, as though he is coursing with energy. He blows his hot breath on my frozen fingertips and tells me it’ll be OK.

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · May 27

The world needs your creative engagement. More than ever. Writing is an act of resistance, making art an act of rebellion. Classes start 6/3, 10 weeks. sva.edu/academics/co...
#visualstoryteller #amwriting #continuingeducation #stories #creativewriting #writing #creativewriting #poetry #creativity

Are you a visual artist who wants to write? Are you burning with a story, but can't find the words? Are you a private scribbler? Or maybe you're already writing but you've hit a plateau? This course w...

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · May 20

TRUMP'S GESTAPO TACTICS: Charging Rep. McIver for doing her job is just the beginning.

Who's next? You? Me? Anyone who dares to question Trump's authoritarian rule?

I stand with Congresswoman LaMonica McIver.

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · May 15

Is writing or art “useful” during this Kakistocracy? Yes! Your voice is meaningful! Classes start 6/3. Online for 10 weeks.

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#visualstoryteller #amwriting #continuingeducation #visualstorytelling #writingcomics #creativewriting #VisualNarrative #storytelling #poetry

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
–Umberto Eco

follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
–Franz Kafka

“Poetry’s job is to make justice live when it is going dead in us every day”
–Robert Hass

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · Apr 30

Look what arrived in the mail while I was away! The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad. I’m very excited to read! And Chico is all over it…
#writing #books #inspiration

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

May Day Strong: We are the Many · May Day Strong

Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · Jan 26

Thank you beautiful magical Virginia Center for Creative Arts for 3 weeks of space, time, nourishment & many amazing creative people!

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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social · Dec 14

My first post: a painting of my cat!

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