Archive for 'Story'
Overwhelming. This year. In its watery infancy of March….Story is powerful.
Dear Writers,
If I asked you to list the 10 events that have affected you most deeply in the past months since the new year entered or we entered the new year, in your immediate sphere, in your family, in this country, in another, in your love life, in your children’s lives, in your art, down the [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2010 under Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Fictional worlds, Story.
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Announcing online critique groups for developed writers in fiction and memoir, with Anya Achtenberg
Claiming and Polishing the Power of Our Stories: Intensive critique classes online in fiction and memoir. (10 weeks) Begins February 2, 2010! Classes every other week for 10 weeks.
This is an advanced writers’ workshop open both to writers who have studied with me, or those who have not but are invited to participate after sending [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2009 under Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Creative Process, News; things to look for, Story.
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Story classes beginning in Minneapolis, October 7! Writers and Artists Trip to Cuba in January.
Dear Writers,
I want to let people know that the story class I announced previously at this site will be starting this Wednesday, October 7. I am very excited about these classes. I taught these story classes, and developed an extensive series of these classes, throughout New Mexico. Stunning writing came forward. And there are, some years after [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2009 under General Writing, News; things to look for, Story.
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Where have I been? Now, there is a question which could lead to story.
Dear Friends,
I won’t tell you know where I have been. But I will tell you where I am going to be. And what I will be doing in relation to teaching writing, right here in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
Here we go, classes first, then news of a workshop, locally in Minneapolis:
Finding the Real Story: [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2009 under Narrators, News; things to look for, Story, Uncategorized.
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Money and writing. Writing and money. Research, Truth, and Imagination.
April 30, 2009
Let’s face it. An economy in shock is not such a shock if you are not only a writer, but a writer from and remaining in the working class.
I am not allergic to the thought of making big money with my writing. Not at all. But the real joy would not be [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2009 under Creative Process, Fictional worlds, Research for works of fiction, Story, Uncategorized.
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Dead white English writer, and your sense of time and story structure.
December 7, 2008
Dear Writers,
I have a confession. I am in love with a dead white English guy, a writer. If it isn’t love, at least it is a shock of recognition, a wave of gratitude at being seen, the kind of amazement when someone brings something into words that illuminates, or puts into relief, or [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2008 under Creative Process, General Writing, Story.
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Story, and the Republican National Convention and Minnesota Nice and East Africans in the Twin Cities and Blood Diamonds,
or,
The Blood Diamond of Story.
Perhaps the wonderful thing about story, about writing, is the chance to reframe everything. The free field of language which in its spiderwebbing way leads us to more truth, hidden truth, forgotten truth, truth which has been obscured and deformed.
Reframing everything. Putting everything back in context.
I taught Children’s Literature last [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2008 under General Writing, Story, Writing and Place.
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