Nonfiction:
Sue Baugh will teach
"The
Power of Story in Words and Images." You’ll learn techniques for
developing your narrative by using images and text to find deeper story lines
and themes in your work. You’ll tap into the spatial side of the brain to
overcome creative blocks, solve plot problems, and create more vivid
narratives. You are invited to bring in or create in class sketches or collages
for illustrations, book covers, or movie stills or posters for their work. You
will also use images to write a short piece integrating two genre topics, such
as nature and spirituality or science and nature. These image/word exercises
use the deeper aspects of the mind and explore the mysterious process by which
a story changes as we write.
Nonfiction:
Sue Baugh earned a BA in creative
writing from the University of Iowa and an MFA in creative writing from the
University of North Carolina. For the past 30 years, she has worked as a
writer, editor, and illustrator developing materials for earth science,
language arts, social studies, business, and medical topics, while also writing
poetry and fiction. She self-published Echoes of Earth, a photo-essay
book about her life-changing journey to some of the world’s oldest rock sites
in Western Australia, Greenland, Canada, and the Grand Canyon. She traveled
54,000 miles by camper car, fishing boat, floatplane, and river raft. The book
has won numerous awards, including the gold Indie Award for science, a gold Ben
Franklin Award for nature/environment, and a silver Nautilus Award for
photography/ art. She and her husband live in Evanston, Illinois, where she is
working on a science fiction trilogy.
