Category Archives: workshops
Networking
Conferences are a great way to figure out where your writing stands in the scheme of things. They’re also a way to add to your list of writing friends and find a agent for your next project. I’m one of … Continue reading
Everything old is new again…..
Okay, it’s an old, old story. Life gets in the way, creates a space that doesn’t want you to write. You hurt your hand, or in my case your shoulder. It’s hard enough to keep doing the work that pays … Continue reading
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About My Last Workshop
Another installment…. When the book is published (I’ve decided to take an optimistic view), lots of teachers and students from Hopkins will be able to say that they helped me. I’d entered the program to work on Bad Luck Companion and I … Continue reading
New Fiction Workshop
In my last post I explained how I started this blog with material from my diary called Surviving a Graduate Writing Program. The saga continues…. This workshop was comprised of seasoned students. Five of them I knew, three from previous … Continue reading
Going Back to Graduate School
If you’ve read my earlier posts, you know that I received my MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins University in 2007. Having some distance has given me some perspective as well as helped me understand that writing programs have a hard … Continue reading
Getting Together With Other Writers
So we talked about choosing a topic and strategies for preparing you to write every day. But there’s also a social aspect to Nanowrimo. There are all sorts of forums that you can access on the nanowrimo.org site which I did the … Continue reading
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Writing from Different Points of View
I didn’t find it necessary to tear down what other students had accomplished. I’m too much of an optimist for that. Usually, I took note of how they’d successfully pulled off a technique so I could try it sometime. My measure of … Continue reading
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Workshopping In Florence
Jean and Alice alternated their sessions. Each teacher held a workshop on one of our submissions and both talked about craft issues. Jean started each session with a craft discussion and Alice integrated craft issues into our discussions about each … Continue reading
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Florence, Italy
My recurring insomnia came in handy, allowing me to stretch my writing hours. I needed that extra time because nothing seemed good enough. When the time came in early May for me to turn in my chapters, I was exhausted … Continue reading
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