"Dylan's workshop was a much needed reminder for me that I'm inherently creative and poetic. Dylan planned prompts with enough guidance that I had a direction to go, but they were loose enough that my own creativity could take a random turn here or there and be very much myself. The biggest thing is that I finally used "the nice notebook" because this workshop made me feel worthy enough to use my nice things. That might seem small but it was huge for me to decide to use this notebook for things that weren't already planned out. Finding the poetry and letting it flow naturally, rather than trying to form it into a vision I tried to achieve, was a HUGE change from how I normally write.

It was so freeing. I loved this entire experience."