We have a name for our zine, and it is Ink & Drink! Because we are always drinking tea, or wine, (and once even fancy-dancy frozen mojitos) while we write. Keeping hydrated while writing is important, we have found. We do not have a publication date, but it will probably be sometime in September.
One exercise we did in class this week was Circle Writing. Everyone in the circle makes up a sentence fragment, like:
At the edge of a field he found the dead...
When I was five, my mother accidentally...
Well, you get the idea. Then we pass our notebooks to the person to our right, and they continue the sentence, and often add a few of their own before passing the notebooks again. We usually do this until our own notebook returns to us, then wrap it up, but you can do as many passes as you like.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
New and Different
It's almost spring, so time for something new and different on this blog. In addition to posting upcoming classes, which is a little dull, I'm going to begin doing some reportage at least weekly on what's actually going on in classes, what's developing for us as a group of Save Your Life Writers, and also news on my own writing front (at least the sending out seems like a battle at times).
An exciting development is the launch of our new zine. Taking a page from Ariel Gore and Kelly Link (check them out), we are starting a zine, at first of our own writings, then hopefully expanding it to other worthy, local writers. We will feature short stories, fairy tales, art, an advice column (writing, relationships, pet advice, anything, really, so if you have a burning question, please e-mail me), and who knows...The title is still uncertain, some idees are: Dreamink, Ink and Drink (oh, yes, we tipple occasionally in class), and Penelope's Persistent Pen. We don't know a Penelope, but perhaps one will emerge. It sounds interesting, anyway.
This week, one of the the exercises we did in class was:
DICE, in which we each threw the dice (I got them out of a Yahtzee game that happened to be hanging around the studio), then did free writes on the sentence or sentence fragment that matched the # we threw. Here are the sentences:
2) (you can't throw a 1, after all) Shady past
3)"I'll cut it off!"
4) The imaginary room
5) "Here, kitty, kitty."
6)He awoke possessing a surprising new talent.
7)Too much crap
8)Basted, toasted, roasted or fried
9)"Do you hear thunder?"
10)At the edge of a field
11)Abdow's Big Boy
12)On the hottest day of the year
It was a lot of fun. Try it.
My news is that I'm off to the vet, and then to e-mail an excerpt of my first novel, The Whole History of Lithia to an interested agent (YAY!). Wish me luck!
An exciting development is the launch of our new zine. Taking a page from Ariel Gore and Kelly Link (check them out), we are starting a zine, at first of our own writings, then hopefully expanding it to other worthy, local writers. We will feature short stories, fairy tales, art, an advice column (writing, relationships, pet advice, anything, really, so if you have a burning question, please e-mail me), and who knows...The title is still uncertain, some idees are: Dreamink, Ink and Drink (oh, yes, we tipple occasionally in class), and Penelope's Persistent Pen. We don't know a Penelope, but perhaps one will emerge. It sounds interesting, anyway.
This week, one of the the exercises we did in class was:
DICE, in which we each threw the dice (I got them out of a Yahtzee game that happened to be hanging around the studio), then did free writes on the sentence or sentence fragment that matched the # we threw. Here are the sentences:
2) (you can't throw a 1, after all) Shady past
3)"I'll cut it off!"
4) The imaginary room
5) "Here, kitty, kitty."
6)He awoke possessing a surprising new talent.
7)Too much crap
8)Basted, toasted, roasted or fried
9)"Do you hear thunder?"
10)At the edge of a field
11)Abdow's Big Boy
12)On the hottest day of the year
It was a lot of fun. Try it.
My news is that I'm off to the vet, and then to e-mail an excerpt of my first novel, The Whole History of Lithia to an interested agent (YAY!). Wish me luck!
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