250 Years of Freedom! Let’s Celebrate…and remember...
I started school under this flag at St. Teresa’s Academy in San Antonio. The sisters scared my 5-year-old self witless so I behaved. Couldn’t help wondering what would happen when we didn’t have 48-star flags anymore? Never fear. Hawaii and Alaska brought us to 50 and staggered rows.
NEW and on the way!
..A bit Different Writing Workshop.
COMING: AUGUST 8
“Mashup of Memoir & Spirituality Writing Workshop.”
What happens when memory and meaning collide? When the story you lived meets the story you’re still trying to understand? This workshop is a mashup of craft, intuition, and discovery — a place to write the scenes that won’t leave you alone and explore the spiritual questions hiding inside them. If that sparks something in you, you’re in the right place.
Joining us at the workshop August 8…and Writing Circles on July-
“The Teaching Triplets”…
Why Comics?
These Characters reflect their teaching posts and find their way onto Carmen’s instructional materials for classes and workshops. A way to stay pointed, if you will. And grin a little. Shakeup that yen for perfection that can hamper us all.
Let me introduce them (l. to r.): Premise Polly is where the spark begins. She’ll welcome you to writing and finding the “start” for your story.
Plotting Penny “digs in” for the big middle of story – plot, characters, tension and suspense.
Publishing Paula shows how to “bring it home,” keep the suspense bubbling while tying all threads together.
BEGINNING – MIDDLE – END – good story practice according to Aristotle a few centuries ago.
CARMEN GOLDTHWAITE
WRITING TEACHER
JOIN with others. Join a Writers’ Circle. Plunge through the “Pond of Perfection” and Have Fun Writing with like-minded scribes.
WRITERS’ CIRCLES
TEACHING WRITERS’ CIRCLES – since 2009 + Conferences & Workshops. SMU and TCU classes since 1998.
Weekly WRITERS’ CIRCLES START DATES.
- July 14: 7 pm on Tuesdays at my Fort Worth home
- July 15: 1:30 – 4:30, a “hybrid” either/or in person or on zoom
- THURSDAYS 7pm began June 25 so a few more weeks before another session starts.
- 6 Week Sessions
So, Who’s Carmen?
Author – Teacher – Storyteller
“Carmen is one of those rare instructors who knows the nuts and bolts of writing, both fiction and nonfiction, and also has the skill to teach that knowledge. A gifted writer and storyteller, she combines her teaching experience with knowledge and good humor, but never lets her students wander far off the trail of good writing.”
Carol Henderson, Rancher and Author of It’ll Rain Someday…Always Does. (a mainstay of Wednesday Writers)
Author Carmen Goldthwaite says…
We can write anywhere, any time. Just takes a moment, get comfortable, then a pen/pencil, tablet/keyboard. Have fun writing or as my favorite “J” prof at TCU said when we stalled: ‘SIT. TYPE’.“
Texas women books…
From indigenous folk to early emigrants, to settlers and community builders and later, community change agents, these books enlarge Texas’ history.
Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History, women who cracked ceilings when sky and culture were the only ones.
Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie. They took the seeds of land and nature and brought about “feeding America” when pickings were slim.
A great feeling to type ‘The End’ on a wending historical novel.
Author…’work in progress’
Following publication of my two Texas women’s history books, the call of a novel wooed me once again down a path of historical research and then the study of creative writing, identifying and getting to know my character and much more. A story percolated up from a family tale spun out over card tables in my childhood. Throughout family life, these were tales (true) my mother recounted over canasta and bridge. I call this historical novel Whispering Spirits.
From my books come stories told around Texas…
CARMEN...Texas storyteller…
“Thank you for coming. I could tell people really enjoyed the stories you told.”Debbie, Pitsburg Peach Festival (below).
Events from Dallas and Fort Worth women’s organizations; from civic events like the Peach festival at Pitsburg, TX and gatherings of history lovers from UTA Library/Archives and Brownwood/Howard Payne historians, Midwestern University students and faculty, scholastic and more.
Scheduling Storytelling Events Now for 2026 – 2027. Contact Carmen to find out more or schedule a LOCAL event.“
This year began with an opportunity to tell Texas Women’s stories to the Tarrant County Salvation Army Auxiliary. A wonderful crowd, warm and engaged! Thank you, ladies.
AND…Sign up for “Scribblers’ Sanctuary” the free monthly newsletter about writing & Texas History that Carmen publishes.
- Updates on
- classes
- workshops
- storytelling events
- Etc.
- A monthly “story” on Texas History rotating with Tips on Writing…and “having fun.”
What’s Up?
Ongoing Writers Circles every six weeks.
NEW WORKSHOP: AUGUST 8
“MashUp of Memoir & Spirituality Writing.”
OTHER: Writing Workshops/Retreats, DATES TO BE DETERMINED:
NEW! “Do Your Characters Talk?”
“SPIRITUALITY WRITING”
“MEMOIR & PERSONAL ESSAY “