THE MUSE
Lit!Commons Muse
Participants in Lit!Commons get access to all 10 teaching artists. Brenda Hudson leads the Muse pathway, which strives to help energize your creative practice through shared encouragement and mind-expanding exercises.
Brenda creates weekly on-demand content that can fit into your busy schedule and follows up with live weekly sessions as well as peer conversation in our shared community.
In this pathway, you'll find activities and lessons like:
- Write Like a Genius: Exercises from Lynda Barry
- Creativity Exercises like Follow the Image
- Approaches to Write Through Challenging Times

Brenda Hudson is an award-winning teacher, writer, and author. Helping others express themselves through writing is Brenda's passion. In her workshops and book Story by Story: 15 Projects to Write Your Family Legacy, she helps even reluctant writers quickly and easily capture their stories. She loves teaching youth and adults at the Loft and has twice received its Excellence in Teaching Fellowship. She also teaches at the Madeline Island School of the Arts, and at schools, libraries, and historical societies. She holds an MS in journalism from Boston University and a PhD in rhetoric from the University of Minnesota's Department of Writing Studies. She is the founder of voicedlife.com.