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Today’s topic on Book Bites for Kids is Great Workshops, Courses, and Conferences for Children’s Writers: Let’s Spread the Word!
If you will be presenting at an upcoming conference for children’s writers, or you teach an online workshop or course in writing for kids, or you even just KNOW about a super writers’ conference that children’s writers need to know about, join us at 2:00 central time today, LIVE on blogtalkradio.com and help spread the word.
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How much work did I do on my novel this weekend and last weekend? Exactly none.
Living, working and writing at the same time in the middle of a holiday season is no way to finish a larger writing project. While daydreaming about vacations, I've spent a little bit of time surfing the web for alternatives to this madcap lifestyle.
If you have a clear idea of what you want to write next, but need the time to do it--you should check out the Alliance of Artist Communities.
The site holds a huge list of grants and retreats for all kinds of artists. You can find a temporary escape from the dayjob, home, and everyday distractions that keep you from writing.
If that's not enough for you, magazine writer Jeff Gordinier points out a new kind of vacation for writers. Check out the Wave Books Poetry Farm:
"Our 12-acre (uncertified) organic fruit & vegetable farm is open to poets willing to work for four good hours a day in exchange for room, board, and a new environment in which to write."
After years and years of creative writing and journalism classes, I could describe my weekend two different ways.
First, the writing workshop way: "I walked through the drafty concrete warehouse Salvation Army, shedding my blue wrinkled jacket that had molded perfectly to fit my skinny frame. I turned around, and my precious jacket had disappeared."
Then, the more emotional, explanatory way: "I felt melancholy last weekend when I went to the Salvation Army, wearing the jacket I've worn since college. While I was trying on some sweaters, somebody stole my favorite jacket. I wandered around the store full of suspicion, trying to figure out who was the dirty thief."
Do you get it? That's the difference between showing you what I felt and telling you what I felt. Too many writing workshops and writing websites will tell you that you should never describe emotions or talk about the feelings surrounding a scene; instead they urge you to describe the scene in a way that shows the emotional context.
"The real reason people choose to show rather than tell is that it's so much easier to write "The big brown torn vinyl couch" than it is to describe internal emotional states without resorting to canned and sentimental language. In other words, "show, don't tell" provides cover for writers who don't want to do what's hardest (but most crucial) in fiction."
If you loved this clear-headed advice, check out Henkin's guest essay about plotting and timelines in his novel over at Beatrice.com. There's a lot of structural advice to help you with your own work.
Things will get wild and crazy next week.
First up, we will be covering the National Book Awards along with The Litblog Army: Ed Champion and Marydell and Sarah Weinman and Levi Asher. Armed with a videocamera, laptop, and a notebook, I'll bring back as much writing wisdom as I can clutch in my skinny arms.
The fiction nominees are pretty smart and adventurous this year: Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork, Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance, Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End, Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke, and Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway.
Then, I'll be appearing in a panel discussion at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center on Saturday November 17th. I'll discuss "Technology: The world of writing on blogs and for e-zines" along with some big-time writers: Michelle Kung from Huffington Post and Justin Fox from Time.
The whole thing will be moderated by Jeff Gordinier, one of my favorite magazine writers. Non-fiction writer Robert Boynton (one of my writing mentors), will be moderating a panel about magazine writing.
The program is trapped in frames at the writing center website, so I've included the whole program after the jump. Come on out and meet some other writers. Continue reading...
I love the Internet as much as the next guy, but once in a while in a writer's life, you gotta unplug and hang out with real-life writers.
Over at The Millions blog, Edan Lepucki is writing about their do-it-yourself writing classes. I love it, and I'd love to support other writers taking the same do-it-yourself workshop approach.
"I've been teaching fiction writing out of my apartment for over a year now. Seven people show up to my place once a week to eat some gourmet cheese, drink some wine (or sparkling water), and talk about fiction writing."
Do you have problems (like me) sticking with one genre of writing? The MFA Blog has some answers for the multi-genre writer in your life. Places like University of British Columbia.
Finally, Publishing 2.0 ponders the idea that all citizen-created and user-generated content is floating around in an enthusiastic vacuum. This essay asks if we are building myths around this new kind of production.
Dig it:
"The reality is that “average people” don’t create a lot of content — at least not the commercially viable kind. Most people are too busy. Those that do “create content” — and who do it well — are those who are predisposed to being content creators. The have some relevant skills, training, raw talent, motivation, something."
How do you deal with rejection?
Our creative writing MFA guru Tom Kealey reminds us that 'tis the season for graduate school rejection and acceptance letters. While some writers are getting happy news form their favorite schools, it also means that hundreds of writers are receiving some bad news this week.
Kealey links to some valuable advice about rejection. Fifteen readers have already added their support, reminding me how important it is to have your friends and writing community to support you during these early years. The Internet only makes it easier. Where do you go for support?
Check it out:
"Anyways, readers have posted two very helpful links, listing news about acceptances etc.: MFA in Creative Writing Blog: Are We There Yet? and Live Journal MFA Acceptances. If anyone has anymore, please post them in the comments section ... I hope everyone receives some good news in one way or the other."
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