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Wild Angels Brave the Cold- Wings Don’t Freeze

The fifth class met on another bitterly cold evening. Our numbers were slim but we still managed to write, using the proprioceptive method, work-shopped our homework and managed not to have time for our in class assignment.

How does that happen? Reading and reviewing our work takes time. We had poetry that was involved and needed care to read, absorb and ponder. Joan shared about a childhood memory of food, mmm cabbage. I still love boiled potatoes and cabbage with butter and salt and pepper. Linda gave us an interesting look into how a soldier might interact with our previous president about the war.  Velma gave us a rousing piece about a group that played at the Cathedral. Bhagwan shared his take on eating strawberries at a past Wild Angels group, while I shared my Twitter poem, done in three stanzas.

I think I covered it all.  The challenge for us is to really dedicate ourselves to our writing by giving it the time and dedication it deserves.

If you are part of a group, or writing on your own you, keeping to a schedule of writing is vital. It is a muscle that must be worked constantly to build up strength, and burn fat!  Ok, the fat is a side benefit to a writing schedule.

Keep writing.

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Write A Way: Journey to Creativity

“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.” ~ Don Marquis

The Business of Writing
By Sandra Lee Schubert

What would you like to happen with your writing? There is a point in a writer’s life when you want to take your work from the notebook or writers group and engage a wider audience. Are you there yet?

I recently attended a publishing workshop. The publisher shared his experiences in the business and how his idealized image of the field and the reality crashed and burned quickly. He imagined publishing would be like the 1940’s movies he loved. The writer and editor spent long weeks holed up on a lovely piece of land hammering out the book. There would be fun and intellectually stimulating exchanges between the writer and editor with the publisher sitting back smoking, bemused by it all. A friend attending the workshop with me was disappointed when they kept talking about building a platform. She was annoyed, “A platform! I just want them to pay me and I sit around and write.” Both had idealized visions of the writing life. Don’t we all? My ideal is sitting on a balcony looking out to the river that I love pondering the next twist and turn of my heroine’s life. Continue reading Business…