Are you already using your own writing to accompany your photography — or maybe want to start writing but don’t know how to begin? This generative creative writing course — in which you’ll both write during class and have optional writing invitations after class — is designed for photographers. Through the use of play and associative techniques, we’ll draft poems, fiction, and fragments from life; explore seven modes of imagery; and learn ways to free the imagination. Each session will include lecture, discussion, writing exercises, and sharing time. Assignment topics include the artistic process, tools and techniques of photography; speculation by way of writing beyond what cameras can capture; recollection and Proust’s concept of “creative wrong memory”; temporal and spatial description; and the self-portrait, whether realist or abstract, with or without the human figure. By the end of class, you’ll have numerous pages of imaginative writing that can work as standalone pieces or be incorporated into your own photography.