Over the weekend I taught my first writing workshop in almost two years. I was nervous before it began but after we got it going, found the groove. What a fantastic and eclectic group of writers! I met some incredible new people and I believe our exercises and discussions energized all of us to fire up our passions for our current projects. I know it did for my writing about the homeless and that came to me in the form of one sentence. Sometimes that’s all it takes. Below is a list of thoughts I shared to conclude the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some final thoughts to conclude the writing workshop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Support local writers by reading their print and digital publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If a writer’s words move you, let the writer know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stock your local street library. Choose something to read from a street library that you might otherwise never read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a writer, look where no one is looking on a subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consider naming a theme song for your current writing project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t rarefy the act of writing. Keep it grounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go back through your old writing. Something new will emerge with this material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Support open mics in the best manner you see fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Try writing in long hand every now and then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Challenge your own assumptions or dynamite them to smithereens and then start writing from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lurking inside every dilapidated local history museum is a great story ready to be discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go to the beaver for a model of writing industry and architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Publish your ideas in print in interesting publications and distribute them in street libraries, laundromats, community gardens and homeless encampments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Support your local bookstores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Submit writing to trade publications and local newspapers and newsletters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ass to chair is the only way to get the work done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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