2025 Writing Classes with Glenda Beall

Registration 2025

Classes are taught via Zoom - Register to receive your invitation to participate.

    Each of us has a unique life story. While our children and grandchildren now show little interest in our past, there will come a time when they will be thankful we wrote and preserved our history. Many times we hear someone, after losing a father or mother, say, "I wish I had asked more questions. I wish I knew more about my parents' lives." 

    We will discuss how to decide what to write, how to write it so that it will resonate with your readers, and how to organize these stories. 

    We will write short informative, entertaining, and enlightening pieces in this class.

Glenda Council Beall

Writing Stories About Ourselves

Online with Zoom 

Tuesdays, April 8,15, and 22 

 

3:00 PM - 5:00PM 

 Fee: $25

The invitation to Zoom will be sent after registration.

This class is part of the Spring Session for the Institute of Continuing Learning at Young Harris College

To Register:   https://www.iclyhc.org/event-6107460?

                 

Using the five senses, seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, and smelling will draw readers into your stories, and create details that make your memories come alive. What are the places you remember, the friends and family, teachers, and others who have helped make you the person you are today?

Learn when and how to use dialogue. Students are given prompts that bring forth memories. You will write a story you remember each week to share for feedback. (max 2000 words) The instructor will read and offer individual suggestions and comments to improve clarity and strength.

Our classes are small, and we work in a non-competitive manner. Students learn from each other as well as from the instructor. Classes are for beginning and intermediate writers, published or non-published. 

 

There are reasons why certain memories stay with us. We don’t remember everything that has happened in our lives, but we remember those things that made a difference.

Who are the people in our lives we want to remember and tell their stories so our children and grandchildren will know them as well?

What do you want your family to know about your life and why? Today young people hardly know their grandparents’ history, where they were born, what they did for work, and what tragedies or successes they had. We don’t sit on the porch and talk like our parents once did. 

Your story is unique and no one else can tell it.

You can learn to inform and enlighten your readers as well as entertain them. You might think your family is not interested in your story, but one day they will be delighted you took the time to write it.

In class, we share our stories and receive feedback from our peers. Each student receives individual attention from the instructor with suggestions on how to make his/her story the best it can be.

About the Instructor:

Glenda is a capable, empathic, and insightful writing teacher, who creates and sustains a safe, warm space for students to learn and become successful writers.

Glenda creates a comfortable setting where students share their writing with others. She firmly believes in encouragement and sensitivity when helping writers improve their work.

What they are saying:

From the Institute of Continuing Learning at Young Harris College:

"Glenda, Kudos to you.  I am mailing a lovely Thank You note you/we received from one of your students!  Such complements – priceless class - amazing – inspiring instructor."       --- Registrar