Writing Classes with Frankie Rollins
Do you feel like writing?
Reclaim the frustration of disappointment by writing it into a fairy tale. This workshop offers the satisfying witch's alchemy of changing the outcome of a story, embracing the power of metaphor, and writing a story you can publish!
$49
This is a free micro course that teaches your how to access and celebrate the unique aspects of your brain and your experiences for creative purposes.
Free
This microclass uses the gestures and flow of dance moves to write into memories. Based on the intimate and physical actions embedded in dancing that can lead to vivid writing and creativity around lived experiences.
$29.99
You have a set of experiences that mark your life. This course leads you into the treasure of your own memories, imagination, and associations, and helps you identify the symbols that have risen from the life you've lived.
$99.99
Join this community for LIVE Weekly Conversations about artistic confidence, creativity, and writing. Use this community share space to post writing, photos, or artwork. Generative and curious!
Q: How do you write a prose text? A: A little bit at a time. Join this 8 week live Zoom writing class with Frankie Rollins. Every week, experiment with an element of prose writing. Develop new texts or existing texts! Start small!
After teaching in colleges for over twenty years, writer and teacher Frankie Rollins launched these courses to help people write, free of hierarchies that might intimidate creativity. These classes are crafted to honor the creative person. They are built with the belief that each person has something valuable from their experiences, knowledge, and insight to share. The Fifth Brain Collective believes that the human race must become inventive and empowered. The Fifth Brain Collective is doing its part by connecting people with their imaginations, without inane and outdated rules to limit the ways we can create. We believe in equity, diversity, inclusion, and creativity. You should take a class if you want to create something, if you want to think, if you want to know yourself better, if you want to find a thoughtful, empowering community.
The Fifth Brain Collective evolved from Frankie Rollins’ concept of the fifth brain, something she developed in her creative writing classes a few years before she wrote Do You Feel Like Writing? A Creative Guide to Artistic Confidence. When Frankie brought a draft of this book back from a sabbatical in Cyprus, she knew that the fifth brain was not just a part of the individual artist’s creative process but also an energized collective artistic discovery and practice. Frankie and her writing group (Eric Aldrich and Sandra Shattuck) decided to create the Fifth Brain Collective on Instagram and invited writers, visual artists, musicians—all kinds of creatives—to post their work and share it. Three years later, the Fifth Brain Collective website is home to Frankie’s book, her coaching business, and these self-paced online courses geared toward any artist’s desire to develop fifth brain creative beliefs, practices, and tools. The Collective is growing and we plan to offer a wide variety of classes related to creativity in many forms of artistic genres on this platform. You are witnessing the beginning of a collective devoted to human creativity!