Archive for 'Travel'
Cuba Trip: One life-changing, art-opening, mind-opening, announcement.
2010 Writers and Artists Research Delegation to Cuba! January 3-11, 2010.
A group of writers, visual artists, educators and others will be going to Cuba January 3-11. We will stay in Old Havana, as well as visit nearby Matanzas province and Varadero Beach. We will meet with Cuban writers, artists, filmmakers, architects and others, and individual [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under Creative Process, News; things to look for, Travel.
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Memories of Censorship; Beyond the World of Your Story; and Who the Heck is in Charge Around Here, Anyway?
So, I am back from teaching, and learning, at Skidmore, the site of the 30th annual writers’ conference of The International Women’s Writing Guild, attended by hundreds of women doing every kind of writing imaginable, and an extraordinarily large number of gifted and devoted teachers, in an atmosphere unusually democratic and creatively fertile. I will [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under General Writing, Travel, Voice.
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The Effect of Travel on Storytellers
Of course I have promised you “serious discussion” of issues of writing every couple of weeks, and in one way or another, I intend to fulfill this promise. Having just returned from 2 months out of the country, including about 5 weeks in Turkey, I am going to be “de-briefing” with you for a bit, [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 under Character Development, Narrators, Travel.
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Writing and Place: Sniffing out the story
People who know that I am in Istanbul and know that I have begun a blog would reasonably expect a posting replete with my impressions of Istanbul, and there are many, but I think I need to take my time to bring something forward about what I really see here. I keep remembering Froudacity; West [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2007 under General Writing, Travel, Writing and Place.
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