Workshops Category
Let Go
Posted on October 23, 2013 2 Comments
Thanks to Fenton Johnson, who shared this quote recently from philosopher Alan Watts at the Writing by Writers conference. Belief is the insistence that the truth is what one would like or wish it to be. Faith is the unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has […]
It’s Critical That You Type Your Critiques
Posted on September 20, 2013 Leave a Comment
I started a writing group, and last night was our first session. We spent our time on administrative things, such as setting a schedule to discuss each other’s writing and establishing some rules of play. One of the rules I wanted – and folks agreed to – was that readers would type up their comments […]
A Rigid Structure Will Set You Free
Posted on August 23, 2012 1 Comment
I’m learning a ton from Pam Houston here in Provincetown at the Fine Arts Work Center workshops. One of the most important things is how adopting a form or structure for your writing can set it free. Let me give you an example. In Pam’s latest book, Contents May Have Shifted, she decided to write […]
A Volcano in Provincetown
Posted on August 20, 2012 2 Comments
I arrived in Provincetown yesterday by ferry to attend a one-week fiction workshop with Pam Houston at the Fine Arts Work Center. We had orientation last night and a brief meeting with our workshop group, which is wonderfully small. She asked us to introduce ourselves, talk about a piece of writing we thought was success, […]
Summer Workshop in P-Town With Pam Houston
Posted on May 18, 2012 4 Comments
Exciting news. I found out this week that I got the very last available spot for Pam Houston’s Advanced Fiction Workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A week of talking about structure, narrative tension, voice, point of view, dialogue, beginnings and endings. I’m psyched. I’ll let you know how it goes. And […]
Tracy Staedter 