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The Writer Workshop Weekly News #1! View this email online
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| | January 27, 2020
Issue #18 |
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Hello Writers!
It can be difficult to walk through new doors, to meet new people, and to commit to doing the work as a writer.
The Writer Workshop is designed to be a supportive space where you can receive expert feedback on your work in progress.
There's also a motivational factor that comes into play when you begin attending a workshop. You know you have to show up with a new chapter or a revised scene for the next session. You know that doing the work is important.
I encourage you to walk through the door and begin doing the work that will elevate your writing to the next level.
This week, in addition to the four weekly workshops and two prompt writing events, is our Book of the Month discussion: Thursday (7 pm). We'll be talking about King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.
Just a reminder: Join us on Meetup for all the latest offerings and to RSVP for workshops and classes.
As always, please reply to this message and introduce yourself and let me know what I can help you with. What types of events are you most interested in attending? What king of help would you like with writing or your road to publication?
Enjoy the journey!
Gregory
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Events: January 13-19
Monday, 1/27: 7pm Writer Workshop ($5) Tuesday, 1/28: 7pm Fiction through Prompts ($10) Wednesday, 1/29: 1pm Writer Workshop ($5) Wednesday, 1/29: 7pm LGBTQ+ Writer Workshop ($5) Thursday, 1/30: 7pm Book of the Month Discussion (Free) Friday, 1/31: CLOSED Saturday, 2/1: 12pm Writer Workshop ($5) Sunday, 2/2: 2pm Fiction through Prompts ($10)
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| | Reading Matters
by Gregory A. Kompes
Reading every day is almost as important as writing every day for a writer. Why? Because reading creates a foundation of knowledge that pays off over and over again for a writer.
That foundation includes the content that we read, especially if we're reading craft books and how-to books. But, it also pays off big time when we read works in our own genre.
If you're writing mystery, seeing how another author plots and paces their book informs you. If you're writing literary fiction, seeing how another author describes setting informs you. If you're reading thrillers, seeing how another author develops tension informs you. On and on it goes. Seeing how another author entrances you, attracts you, engages you informs your writing.
There are some authors who say they don't want to read because it might inform their writing, might alter what they're writing. I say, that's exactly why you want to be reading. We should be influenced by all the work that has come before our own.
We simply become better writers by reading the work of others.
Stephen King wrote "if you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write."
It really is that simple. We become better writers when we read...
Join us for a discussion of Kings, On Writing, Thursday, January 30, at 7 pm.
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| | January Book of the Month at
The Writer Workshop Bookstore
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it—fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.
Available at The Writer Workshop Bookstore or on Amazon |
| | Fiction Through Prompts
The popular Fiction through Prompts. Each session includes writing to a “high end” prompt, reading our work, receiving a bit of feedback, and a short lecture on a literary device.
This weekly event allows you to step outside your box, to disrupt your usual thought process by writing to a prompt without advance thought. You hear the prompt, and then write for about 20 minutes. Participants then read their work and receive a bit of light feedback. It's an informative and sometimes transformation process.
Tuesday, January 28 at 7 pm and Sunday, February 2 at 2 pm ($10) |
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