Antioch Writers’ Workshop 2010: Day 3
July 14, 2010.
Wednesday’s classes continued the curriculum of the past couple days in more detail. In Fiction we analyzed more passages. The ‘How to Pitch’ class featured another agent speaking. In poetry we talked about other poems, and how to turn our ‘Hunk of Stone’ into a crafted work of art. Our Creative Non Fiction instructor went into more detail on certain aspects of the Writer’s Toolbox, and she covered Story Arc, Chronology, and Organizing your research in a way that I found really helpful.
I’ve begun to notice that all my classes have the same thread weaving through them: Dredging up the unconscious in a somewhat messy way in order to express your creativity, and then worrying about all the other technical things to craft it into something beautiful. My mind kept going back to Nanowrimo, and how you do exactly the same thing when you write your rough draft novel. Of course, no one mentioned Nanowrimo, but I couldn’t help thinking about it just the same.
My husband and son went to see a movie yesterday, so they picked me up pretty close to when my classes were done. We ate and walked around Yellow Springs and took lots of photos. It’s a cute town. I have no way of posting them now, but I will post them probably next week. One’s even going to be a writing prompt.
I need to go to class now, so have a great day!