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A variety of experienced presenters share their insights on the craft and business of writing—and the heart of the creative process.
Your stories are important.
Whether you’re drawn to fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, or interested in being published, you’ll find guidance, inspiration, and practical tools to support you and your writing journey at Writers Forum workshops.
Forum Workshops Will Help You Grow Your Writing With Confidence.
Saturday, November 21, 10:00 am to 11:30 am, Pacific, Presenter Leslie Bradford-Scott will talk about “Why Stories Stall (and How to Fix Them).” Zoom URL
Wednesday, December 9, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, Pacific, Presenter Matthew Félix will talk about “The Embodied Writer: How Wellness Enhances Craft.” Zoom URL will be posted early December.
November 21: Presenter Leslie Bradford- Scott: Why Stories Stall (and How to Fix Them)
Why do some scenes pull us effortlessly into the next, while others seem to sit stubbornly on the page? In Why Stories Stall (and How to Fix Them), Leslie Bradford-Scott introduces a practical framework for diagnosing what’s gone wrong when a story loses momentum.
Using her Railcar, Coupling, and Subjectivity method, she breaks scenes down into three essential elements: the main event that gives the scene something to be about, the cause-and-effect connections that propel the story forward, and the character’s subjective experience that gives those events meaning.
Writers will learn how to spot what’s missing in a flat or stalled scene and, more importantly, how to fix it.
The goal is a simple, repeatable craft tool writers can take home and apply immediately to their own work.
Leslie Bradford-Scott is an award-winning writer, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of “The Liar’s Playbook,” a memoir of family and crime.
December 9: Matthew Félix: The Embodied Writer: How Wellness Enhances Craft
Discussions of craft often focus on the intellectual aspects of writing—structure, character development, voice, style, and revision—while overlooking fundamentals that can profoundly influence the writing itself: presence, focus, attention, energy, and inspiration.
Craft tells us what to do.
Wellness practices help us do it more effectively.
In this session, writer and coach Matthew Félix will explore approaches that get writers out of their heads and into their bodies—including breathwork, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation—enriching the creative process.
Participants will discover practical techniques for sharpening attention, cultivating inspiration, and creating the mental and physical conditions in which creativity can flourish and your best writing can emerge.
Matthew Félix is the author of four books, a certified life coach, a speaker, and an interviewer.
Publishers Weekly called his debut novel, A Voice Beyond Reason, “(a) highly crafted gem.”
His work has been recognized with a Solas Awards Grand Prize for Story of the Year and Gold for Memoir in the Northern California Publishers & Authors Awards.
Matthew ghost-writes, edits, publishes, and markets books for other authors.
He has certifications in personal resilience, nervous system fitness, and intuition medicine, as well as immersive breathwork training through Esalen.
His eight-week online program Falling into Writing, an exploration of how wellness supports craft and the writing life, starts in January 2027 through San Francisco’s Writers Grotto.
Matthew also regularly interviews leading thinkers and authors, including two recent sold-out conversations with Isabel Allende.
The Write Spot Books
Inspiration to write in between Writers Forum workshops.
The Write Spot books, a seven-book series features writing that entertains as well as offering inspiration for writers.
All of the stories, vignettes, and poems in The Write Spot books include writing prompts. These books are like portable writing groups.
The Write Spot books are available from your local bookseller and in both print and on Kindle. Free if you are a Kindle Unlimited member with Amazon.