Do you remember your original inspiration for writing or journaling?
You are a creative being, and you paint with words, but even the most dedicated writer can run out of that paint, lose that spark, or lose the joy and pleasure that comes from creating with words, from writing.
We sometimes forget that childhood ease and ability to create through play and fun and laughter, and as adults, we can’t always see the creative spark in our everyday world – from cooking to gardening to, yes, being able to add a column of ten numbers in our heads (seriously, that takes a certain creativity!).
It’s time to recapture that writing spark.
I can help.
**I have a few current offerings with more planned for 2025.
Spring Refresh: A Journaling Series
April 24-May 22, 2025 * Thursday evenings, 6-7:30 p.m.
Spring is the season of new growth and the perfect time to join our 5-week journaling workshop series. Reflective writing is a powerful yet gentle tool for self-discovery. We’ll create a meaningful journaling practice designed to nurture mindfulness, reveal what matters, embrace challenges, and tap into your creative core. You’ll explore different ways to journal – including stream-of-consciousness, mindfulness, art, nature, list-making, gratitude, dream, and more – which will bring new dimension and perspective to your journaling practice and your mindset. Each session builds on the previous session. Bring a notebook and your favorite writing tool.
Register here! Limited to eight participants.
Connect & Refresh
Writing Retreats – currently planning for 2025
Retreat from daily life and focus on YOU and your writing. Discover how to tap more deeply into your creative center at one of my Creativity Retreats for Writers. Finetune that creativity and then paint it into your writing life, one word at a time.
Connect with others. Put words on paper. Leave refreshed and with a writing plan.
“Writers should practice creativity the way concert pianists practice their scales. In June, 2022 I participated in a 2-day writer’s retreat in Palisade, Colorado led by Melody. I was not entirely sure what to expect, but left feeling inspired, renewed, and refocused.” Read more here…
Ready to go?
Be Social & Local
Grand Junction, Colorado
Writer Chicks Coffee Club*
Want a chance to connect with fellow writers? Join this drop-in group Wednesday mornings from 9:00 am to 10:30 am in the Vault Room at Main Street Bagels in downtown Grand Junction. Coffee, community, and camaraderie! We talk about everything – we talk about writing – we read our written pieces. Ladies only. *Note: this is primarily a social group for connection, and we also read our writings most weeks.
“Melody Jones started the Writer Chicks Coffee Club in September of 2021 when there was a dearth of opportunities for writers to gather. I started attending in October, and I never miss a weekly meetup, if I can help it. Melody has created such a warm and inviting place for women to share their love of writing…” Read more here.
Get Local – Grand Junction Writing Group
Butt in Seat Writing Group
Grand Junction, Colorado
This group is currently closed. Thank you.
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Who is Melody Jones? Author, poet, speaker, creator, crafter, coffee enthusiast, lover of beagles, Colorado native, President of the Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, and more… click here. Find out what others say about her on her Testimonials page.
