Write It Out

Register for the Write It Out® Writing Retreat And Workshop August 1-August 9, 2023. Deadline to make your classic room reservations at Villa Le Barone, Panzano, Italy is March 13, 2023. Tuition that includes workshop, private consultations and evening salons is due June 1, 2023. See www.writeitout.com or contact Ronni Miller at RMillerWIO@gmail.com for more information.

The Write It Out® four week virtual Expressive Writing Workshop on Zoom begins Thursday, November 4 from 2-4 PM EST. Contact RMillerWIO@gmail.com to register.

On Going Expressive Writing Workshops will continue on Zoom Thursday afternoons through 2021 from 2-4 PM EST. These are 4 week terms given from my home studio in Sarasota, FL. Anyone who wants to express their story in any genre is welcome to attend. Registration is required. Please contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com to register and inquire about tuition.

Between Lovers, Ronni Miller’s newest book a collection of fiction short stories and ten minute plays has just been published and is on Amazon! Don’t miss these autobiographical fiction stories by an award winning author that capture life with humor and insight.

Loneliness has increased in this time of COVID 19. One way to beat it is to expressi yourself in writing. Write for yourself. There is no editor. The process of purging feelings, memories and experiences with written words is important. It can be just a list of words, a stream of consciousness and it doesn’t have to make sense. Within a few minutes of writing time you are transported to another time and place in your life. In those minutes your feelings are freed. A burden is lifted. Relaxation occurs. You’ve spoken to yourself. You are our own audience.

Isolate sounds prick at my mind. A bird calls to another outside my window.
Silence inside envelops me. My fingers itch for the keys. They wait for a thought to course through my veins to fingertips. I hear the clicking and watch the screen. I’ve begun something.

We went to sleep and woke up one day to a new world. A world of social distancing because of the world-wide pandemic caused by COVID-19 the Coronavirus that has overtaken us in just days.

There has been an epidemic of loneliness for several years and now with the new edicts of social distancing, loneliness affects a great deal more of the population.

In these times when forced isolation provides reams of unaccustomed time it can be put to use by writing. Partly as self-entertainment and partly to be shared with others through the phone or Internet or in some cases in person within the household.

Writing is one way to fend off this loneliness and stress due to uncertainties, loss of income, health and isolation from family and friends. Write about how it feels today. Write about past experiences good and bad and how feelings and emotions, decisions and outcomes impacted your life. The process can simply be writing in a journal or it can take the form of a letter, poem, play, short story, essay or even novel. Before long you have several pages, about pieces of events scattered through your life. These pieces can be placed in a three ring notebook, a box or file and also bound into a book.

One just gets started by doing. Putting one word down on a paper or on the screen and other words follow without thought.

For me, writing has been my companion. My soul mate who doesn’t fall asleep on me when I’m speaking or mention that I’ve told that story before. It supports my thoughts. It embraces my words. It gives me the opportunity to vent and in so doing understand more of a condition or situation.

In one room, in front of my laptop, I can travel backward in time to anywhere. There are no security checks or flight delays. Travel is instantaneous. My system can dwell on one spot, one action, one emotion for however long I please. I can transverse pink sand, cool to the souls of my feet in 90 degree temperature next to aquamarine water sliding up the shore. I can see him stand on the promontory camera in hand, sweat dampening his blond hair capped under a safari hat. What the camera did for us led to a novel that fed on itself.

In this new world we have been given a reprieve from frenetic-ness. Time is our own not dictated by others. We are finally in control of our own lives at least in the decisions about time. “There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens” Ecclesiastes 3.
We can choose to make this time useful for ourselves by documenting the situation for posterity through words about how we felt, observed, reacted.

Empty shelves in supermarkets. People lined up before it opens to hoard or to obtain only for the moment food and products once never so important like hand sanitizer and toilet paper.

We have time to “live life in radical amazement” a phrase coined by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to “get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal, everything is incredible, never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”

To record in word all that is happening, has happened and might happen is to expose a piece of oneself for posterity and leave a legacy.

Join us for a Virtual Expressive Writing Workshop on Zoom from Ronni’s Studio for a four week term beginning Wednesday, April 15th 2-4 PM. Tuition $95. Contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824 if interested.

Join us for our Expressive Writing Workshop: “Masks” every Wednesday in February 2-4 PM at Ronni’s Studio, Sarasota, FL.
Workshops begin Wednesday, February 5, 2020. Contact RMillerWIO@gmail.com or see www.writeitout.com for more details.

There is a correction in our SPUR newsletter under the heading Linda Odom Published. Linda is a flight attendant not stewardess. Words are important in today’s gender appropriate consciousness.

Join us October 21-October 29, 2020
at a special writing retreat at the historic Ville Le Barone, a four-star hotel in the Chianti region of Italy a short distance from Florence. Tuition of $950 includes workshop, private consultations and evening salons with Ronni. Registration begins January 6, 2020.See www.writeitout.com for more details or contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail or 941-359-3824

Hi,
The time has returned to express the stories that have impacted your lives. Join us around the table and share your prose or poetry as we begin a new year.

SCHOOL BELL’S RINGING
AT
RONNI’S PINEHURST STUDIO

(7316 Eleanor Circle Sarasota 34243)

September
Expressive Writing Workshop

Wednesday, September 11, 18, 25, Oct. 2, 2019 2:00-4:00 PM

Tuition: $95 if paid in advance or at the first class or $25 for individual classes.

RSVP for a place around the table RMillerWIO@gmail.com or (office)941-359-3824.

There are still a few openings for the Tuscany Writing Workshop
October 16-24, 2019
See www.writeitout.com for more info.

See you soon.
Ronni

July Expressive Writing Workshop at Ronni’s Studio, Sarasota, FL Wednesdays July 3, 10, 17, 24 , 31, 2019 from 2-4 PM.
Write prose, poetry and theater pieces to express your story.
Contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824 to register.

The radio interview aired June 13, 2019 on WSLR 96.5 Sarasota, FL
Here is the link to the recording of the show on the radio station’s archive: https://archive.wslr.org/mp3/wslr_190613_180000gunsletters.mp3/

If the above link doesn’t work, here is the recording archived on our own website: wslr_interview.mp3

Listen to my interview “On Becoming an Author” on the WSLR 96.5 Betty & Friends Thursday June 13, 2019 archives. It will be available for two weeks.

There are still openings to register for the Tuscany writing retreat and workshop October 16-24, 2019. The deadline to register is June 22, 2019. Join me to celebrate Write It Out’s twenty-two years of facilitating workshops in Italy and many years at the Villa Le Barone in Panzano, Italy where the workshop is held. It has the comfort of a four star hotel and the graciousness of bygone years. A family owned villa since the Renaissance, its Tuscan cuisine and wines are authentic to the region and cooking classes are available as well. You will write surrounded by the sensory beauty of the hills and valleys of Chianti, the chestnut and olive trees and vines heavy with ripe grapes, the sounds of bels from the 10th C. church down the road and the smell of lavender and late blooming roses. See  “Tuscany” on www.writeitout.com or contact RMillerWIO@gmail.com for more information.

A five week Expressive Writing workshop will be held at Ronni’s Studio Pinehurst Village Sarasota, FL May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019 from 2-4 PM. All levels of writers welcome. Contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com to register.

A brand new four week Expressive Writing Workshop will begin on April 3, 2019 2-4 PM at Ronni’s Studio, Sarasota, FL. It is for anyone impacted by life altering situation,s to express feelings, memories and experiences through journal writing, poetry, prose and theater pieces. Contact Ronni at RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824 for more information.

Visit me at the VENICE BOOK FAIR Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00 AM-3:00 PM at Blalock Park 200 Turin St. across Nassau St from the library.  I’m in booth 46. You’ll have a chance to see my new book Domestic Shorts a collection of 18 fiction stories about love and relationships. See  www.writeitout.com for more on Domestic Shorts now available on Amazon.

Free writing workshop Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00 AM-12:30 PM at the Center for Arts & Humanity 1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL. I’ll facilitate a mini-workshop.
of Write It Out® exercises. Join in the fun. Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boost-your-creativity-with-sarasota-pen-women-at-a-free-writing-workshop-tickets-51496118276?ref=eios&aff=eios

By popular demand Ronni’s Studio Workshops continue through August and September on Thursdays. Creative Writing: 11AM-1 PM, Playwriting 2-4 PM.
Contact Ronni RMillerWIO@gmail.com to register. Private sessions and perks available.

As writers we often travel alone, both literally and figuratively.

“Alone is like a stone”
“Alone is like a stone” were the words I heard years ago from a lover. I’ve never forgotten them or him. When we are alone we have time to think. We dialogue with our own minds, heart and whoever else you might identify as spirit. This is good, often comforting. Sometimes it leads to tangled paths and walls too high to climb alone. That’s when you turn to another, most definitely a listener. I am a listener.

Clients say I’m an exceptional listener
My clients have reiterated many, many times over the last twenty-six years that I am an exceptional listener. That I’ve given them a safe environment to express their stories, reveal their trauma and find their voice through writing. This is the authentic material that lies below the surface of all writing be it fiction, memoir, poetry, prose or theater pieces.

Encourage the positive
As I writer myself, I appreciate when I’m heard, when my stories are taken to heart and suggestions of a positive nature are made so that I feel encouraged to edit, shape and mold to have the material better clarified. I do that with clients.
Too many editors place themselves in godlike positions to pronounce success or failure of a writer’s attempts.

Help focus on the goal
There are times that the journey is strewn with pebbles, rocks and even boulders sometimes seemingly impossible to climb. Sometimes the forest is so dense the goal is lost. I understand when a client comes to me and says I’m confused. I help them navigate over the blocks and see through the trees to the light. I help guide them to focus on the real importance of what they want to say by listening and interpreting their clues and adventure forward with their words. We are both excited with the outcome.

Process More Important Than Product
You are not alone when you work with me to birth your books. The process of self-discovery through your own words boosts your self-confidence, and in the end the process is more important than the completed product. You have an enthusiastic listener, experienced developmental editor and one who has discovered fulfillment in helping others birth their books in whatever genre you have chosen or it has chosen you.

You’re Not Alone
Clients have felt their aloneness, common condition of a writer, is shared with a fellow traveler who cares that they attain their goals.
No material is too small or too large to sort through. Some of my clients come to me with an idea and few words to support that idea. We work together and the material grows and as it does so does their confidence in the ability to plant seeds and reap the mature growth. Some clients come to me with a box full of papers collected over the years to tell their story and are unable to decipher where the story begins and how to bring it through to its climax and conclusion. We do that and it becomes a published book. Some clients are working through trauma such as PTSD or, cancer or other life threatening illnesses and their therapists and doctors suggest writing their stories and send them to me to help. Some are in the throes of completing a book and need a professional ear and eye to help carry it to completion. In all cases

Contact me RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824 for a free private consultation to ascertain whether we are a match for each other. Appointments are in person in Sarasota, FL or through Skype or FaceTime, anywhere or by phone in the US. Payments for future appointments by check or money orders. See www.writeitout.com for more information about Ronni and the Write It Out® program.

Best.
Ronni Miller

Author of seven books: Where To Go With Your Lover, Dance With The Elephants-Free Your Creativity And Write, Cocoon To Butterfly-A Metamorphosis of Personal Growth Through Expressive Writing, Inside Outside Clyde, The Bread Thief, Pumpkin Soup, Domestic Shorts.

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