I'm teaching my figurative language workshop again... now with an updated twist 🌀
Weekly writing prompt #189
Last year, I taught a figurative language workshop. And next month, I’m bringing it back, baby! But this time with a very important curriculum update:
In addition to analyzing figurative language for its beauty and artistic merits (always worthy endeavors imo), there’s a new emphasis on studying evocative figurative language that’s driven lasting cultural impact. Aside from our home base of literature, we’ll be studying a diverse array of texts like iconic speeches, rousing screenwriting, and timeless song lyrics.
The class is also 30m longer than the one I taught last year. What’s not changing are the fun figurative prompts we’ll do to stretch our imaginations beyond the literal world.
I made this update because the moment is calling for it. When the world’s on fire, and each week we wake up to some new fresh hell, I believe it’s the storytellers, writers, poets, movement leaders and changemakers who are called upon to usher in a new reality that honors our highest hopes for society. As writers and communicators, we already know words are powerful. Let’s see just how powerful they can be 🙃.
Workshop details:
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Time: 1:30 - 4pm Pacific / 3:30 - 6pm Central / 4:30 - 7pm Eastern
Location: Google Meet link sent after registration
Cost: Sliding scale $56 - $76
Limited to 8 participants!!
Testimonials from previous participants
“Jamie provided great examples, asked thought-provoking questions, and encouraged in me a desire to think outside the box I usually find myself in. I highly recommend!”
— Claire
“The workshop provided me with generative strategies for using and expanding metaphors and helped give my writing a real boost through dynamic exercises—I wish I could have had another hour!”
— Dave
📝 This week’s writing prompt
What words, phrases, adages, moments live rent free inside your head and why? Was it some ill-fated advice from a well-meaning uncle? Words from a former lover that still haunt you in the dead of night? A sweet moment of glory you would relive if you had the chance?To submit your writing: reply to this email, comment on this post, or send to nowgowrite@substack.com by Saturday evening.
Last week’s submissions: Sentences of surgical precision
If you submitted last week, check out the rest 👀
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.” — Gilbert Chesterton