THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOOK WRITING 📄
A three week class for outlining the bones, demystifying the physical object, and putting your book on the shelves
📨 OUTLINING THE BONES OF YOUR BOOK
📨 THE ART OF THE PHYSICAL OBJECT
📨 WRITING A BOOK, SHOWING THE WORLD
This two hour workshop / lecture / ultimate creative pep talk is an invitation to reset the expectations you have been putting on yourself and right size them for the benefit of your creative practice and those who you share with.
While I love writing about many different things and enjoy the practice of many modalities of art making, the container of the book is like no other. I find more CONSISTENT ATTENTION to the world when my book writing practice is rooted in curiosity, community, and devotion
Payment plans available
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The goal is to prepare an architectural landscape of tools, skills, community, care, and magic to set you on your path. We will talk about the pros and cons of the publishing world vs self publishing, how to have an abundant creative practice, marketing and selling books, digital and physical ways or organizing our chapters and essays and materials
🌼 You're pretty sure you have nothing to say or everything you have to say is stupid
🌼 You already have a book idea but you want to become a better and clearer writer
🌼 You want to streamline the process of gathering ideas and and generating creative output
Since 2017 I have been putting books into the world: self published and published by Harper Collins. This has been one of the ultimate gifts of my lifetime and I am happy to have four books in the world as well as a handful of zines and hundreds of issues of my digital newsletter.
You do not need to think you are a writer to take this class, and you also do not have to feel “ready” to write a book. This is for people who are halfway through writing a book OR have a million ideas in their head and feel the very deep and psychic calling that a book is forming in their soul, and they have no idea how to extract it.
Email info@codycookparrott.com for any additional questions
We will check in using the chat
We will set intentions for the two hours
And we will wildly unlock the ability to write a whole book
You will not write a whole book during the duration of this class. That is not the goal. The goal is to prepare an architectural landscape of tools, skills, community, care, and magic to set you on your path. We will talk about the pros and cons of the publishing world vs self publishing, how to have an abundant creative practice, marketing and selling books, digital and physical ways or organizing our chapters and essays and materials
I have also invited three of my real life friends to guest teach this class with me : Tamara Santibañez , Brandi Cheyenne Harper, and Jacqueline Suskin
Tamara Santibañez is the author of Could This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Work and the Substack newsletter ISO : My Body.
Brandi Cheyenne Harper is the author of Knitting for Radical Self-Care.
Jacqueline Suskin is the author of Every Day is a Poem (and six other books, including multiple poetry books)
A WEEK BY WEEK DESCRIPTION:
OUTLINING THE BONES
- Deciding what to write about
- Considering the lengths of the project : a zine, a pamphlet, a book
- Outlining the book itself
- Creating rituals around writing
WRITING A BOOK, SHOWING THE WORLD
- Sharing writing samples
- Willingness to pivot
- Pacing your project
- How to talk about it with others
THE ART OF THE PHYSICAL OBJECT
- Finding an agent, pitching your book
- The world of self publishing
- To ship or not to ship
- Wholesale, distribution
- More creative process
Looking into what we want to turn our attention towards, increasing our capacity for note taking and writing, deepening our art practice, and sharing our findings with an people who truly carve out time to engage with our work - not just scroll past on an app.
Accountability is a way to expand our devotion and commitments: consider sharing the link to class with a friend to join you.
Feel free to give it a try!
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WHO IS TEACHING THIS CLASS?
Consider this before you sign up - when signing up you are consenting to taking a class with a tornado person - This class is taught by Cody Cook-Parrott, an artist and writer, who has been self employed and teaching online classes since 2017.
They are a hermit and a social person and many things and skilled at planning as a Gemini, Human Design Manifestor, Queer person, freak, and artist. They love to create fun and joyful containers for figuring out how to live in the world as an expert of nothing, a devotee to the mystery.
Many of the lessons in this class are borrowed by and inspired by healing with ADHD, 12 step rooms, spiritual practice, The Artist’s Way, and more
See terms and services for all online class here.
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ZOOM ROOM
What this means is you'll have to take what you like and leave the rest! Not everything will work for every person, this container will, however, empower you to have the information to mold and fit to your specific needs and desires.
It will also help you determine the difference between when you are just beating yourself up for not "doing something you said you would do - and shifting into a space of awe and devotion.
This part might activate you - that's good: may the pushing back guide you closer to yourself. See you there!
A final note on the energy of the Zoom room:
This could be a small group, it could be a huge group, your ex might be there or your old neighbor. The mystery of digital spaces will invite us into our beautiful boundaries. Honor your physical and emotional needs and shift them throughout sessions : camera on / camera off. Participate in the chat exercises or don't. Face your camera to show us a plant the whole time. This is your experience!
Many Blessings - Cody
REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Class is $425
The recording is yours forever
Payment plans available
Class is $425
The recording is yours forever
Payment plans available
Writing lets us drop our edge and merge with everything
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down The Bones
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