What is plein-air prose?
Plein-Air Prose is a Seattle-based outdoor writing community that hosts classes, workshops, retreats, and other writing events in and around the Seattle area. Writers spend long hours alone, indoors, hunched over desks, and staring at computer screens. Since the pandemic in 2020, the number of online writing groups has exploded, adding even more time writers spend with technology. Plein-Air Prose was created in response to the burnout caused by Zoom fatigue and writers craving more human connection. Plein-Air Prose encourages writers to take a break from tapping on keyboards and instead tap into the many benefits of spending time in nature, breathing fresh air, moving the body, writing by hand, and interacting in-person with fellow creatives. All activities use nature combined with these other elements to nurture, inspire, rejuvenate, and facilitate creativity and productivity.
Join the Plein-Air Prose Posse for free by signing up for the newsletter and get priority notifications and registration for upcoming events, exclusive discounts, and resources!
|
The name was borrowed from another creative outdoor art form, plein-air painting, or painting en plein air (French for "outdoors"), where artists set up easels and canvases at parks, beaches, and other natural environments and paint or draw the scenery in front of them. For writers, it's even easier - the only equipment needed is a notebook and pen or pencil!
Plein-Air Prose was founded by editor and book coach Lynn Post of PostScripts Editing with the goal of providing dedicated time, additional support, and community accountability to help authors finish their WIPs (works in progress) and get more meaningful, life-changing stories out into the world. Resources and events are designed to build and strengthen storytelling and self-editing skills, and for assistance with navigating the editing and publishing processes (traditional or indie), to put writers on a successessful path toward achieving their literary goals. 
|