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Comment on Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World Workshop, at Leaven Retreat Center in Michigan, Aug. 5-9! by Karen

Karen — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:46:56 +0000

And it was spectacular! Thanks, Anya and Demetria, for another fabulous workshop. Life-changing … as always. You are an amazing teacher and writer!! Namaste.

Comment on Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World. Why Re-Dream? by Re-dream a just world « A 10-Minute Work Break

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Comment on Money and writing. Writing and money. Research, Truth, and Imagination. by George

George — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:08:08 +0000

Everyone appreciates the gift of his sovy writing. Of course, most try to earn this money. But I personally think that this art, which is not for sale.

Comment on Money and writing. Writing and money. Research, Truth, and Imagination. by Darcy

Darcy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:36:10 +0000

I am writing amateur stories. Agree with you that write this into the first sweat and talent. And secondly it is done not for money or fame, but for the sake of attention and evaluation of your readers. The best, it does not get ganorar, and to hear the positive feedback the reader, who will push for new and interesting stories.

Comment on Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction: Online Classes Starting Up Again on Writers.com + Note on the Joiner Center and their yearly writers workshop. by Karen

Karen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:40:27 +0000

Hi Anya,

I hope your writers and readers will check the Leaven Center website to find out more about your and Demetria’s workshop, “Writing from the Eye of the Storm” August 13-17. They can find out more about it at http://www.leaven.org/upcoming.htm#writing. We can’t wait to have you back!

Karen

Comment on Despair, Joy, Complexity: Against writing default endings to fictional stories. by Anya

Anya — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:39:43 +0000

Dear Claudia,

It’s so good to read your comment, to see your understanding of the ability we have to shape our own lives and the larger world as well. It’s so easy to forget that. That’s one reason I love the free field of story, of imagination, fueled by the stories that have whispered to me before, and by those I have yet to get a glimpse of.

Thanks so much, and wishing you well,
Anya

Comment on Despair, Joy, Complexity: Against writing default endings to fictional stories. by Claudia

Claudia — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:57:35 +0000

With the help of our stories, we reveal ourselves, share our emotions, to communicate with others. The end of history depends only on us, our heroes to live as we want it. It is perfectly to create something new, to manage what is the fate ..

Comment on Despair, Joy, Complexity: Against writing default endings to fictional stories. by Anya

Anya — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:09:23 +0000

Dear Renard,

It took me a few moments to get past the delicious descripion, honestly, I shouldn’t skip meals. But I thank you so much. And we know that whatever ending the character’s saga comes to, it will come from the complex truth of their being. Not conventional. ANd I guess I see conventional not so much as being ordinary, since some of what seems the most ordinary is some of what is most beautiful about being on this planet, but conventional as following, following, what is preset, following the formula already waiting for us, and our characters, to enact it.

John Gardner, he said it. No discovery in the writer, no discovery in the reader.

What can we do but discover every moment. Allow our characters, as Grace Paley said, “the open destiny of life.”

No reason for you not to breathe out discovery into your words and the fate of your characters.

Many thanks, many thanks,
Anya

Comment on Despair, Joy, Complexity: Against writing default endings to fictional stories. by Renard

Renard — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:42:33 +0000

So I am sitting here listening to Chuck Mangione Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1978) and Chaka’s first solo album (1978), eating a home made eggplant, carrot, broccoli, onion, bean curd, snow pea stir-fry with extra garlic, over brown rice, contemplating the end of my story, and reading your newsletter.
“Woof”, (like poof but more airy), this letter takes me right where I need to be as an artist, to make that very decision with which I have grappled. I have struggled my whole life to represent the validity of non-conventional existence, and there is no reason why any seemingly conventional character has to receive a conventional ending to their saga.
Thank you Anya. You are always the voice of the mirror.

Comment on Dead white English writer, and your sense of time and story structure. by Anya

Anya — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:46:48 +0000

Dear Kristi,

Thank you so much. I intend to keep working at it!
All the best, Anya