What we learn from facing the page Yes, I did read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I even got several weeks into it before I got distracted. For those of you unfamiliar with the text, if you don’t get anything from it, chances are you know about morning pages. These are three pages thatContinue reading “Freewriting”
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An Ending and a Beginning
Writing in times of change I lead a bimonthly writing group with the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group in Bushwick. It’s a wonderful time to work with adults on their writing – people who might have jobs besides writing, or they’re copywriters, or they’re just trying to get their writing projects completed. In these sessions IContinue reading “An Ending and a Beginning”
Placing the Bones
How to structure writing in a way that works for your scholar In school I never wrote outline. After researching or deciding upon what I was going to write, I let the words rush out. No apparent logic dictated the turns, no hand pushed the themes from one paragraph to the next – from oneContinue reading “Placing the Bones”
Writing in the Sun
2024 Spring and Summer Workshops with Bending Tree Teen Book Club Poetica Coffee, Last Sunday of every month (unless otherwise noted – check in the workshops page), 4-5pm, 251 Smith St. Brooklyn, NY, Free. Join Irene and Sebastian Sarti each month to discuss a new book of experimental fiction. These book clubs are for passionate andContinue reading “Writing in the Sun”
World Building with Leaves
A selection of prompts from the Writing with Leaves Workshop Thank you to everyone who attended Writing with Leaves! I was so happy to have the chance to share my thoughts on the relationships between world building, mythology, and ecosystems! For those of you who missed this session, I am hoping to hold another laterContinue reading “World Building with Leaves”
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