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Monday, Feb. 8: WriterHouse will be Open! |
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The Fiction 2 workshop will meet tonight, Monday, February 8, as scheduled. We'll also be holding open hours from 6-9pm. Shake off your cabin fever and get some writing done at WriterHouse!
Stay tuned for an update about tomorrow if the weather turns bad again. We hear there's more wintry stuff on the way. |
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Starting Saturday, February 13 (Delayed due to snow the past two weekends)WriterHouse is offering a 4-session workshop for teens (grades 9-12) who love to write in any form or genre — poetry, stories, film, comics, anything. The cost is $100, and thanks to the generosity of the Bama Works Foundation of the Dave Matthews Band, a few scholarships are available. Contact
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for more information.
Instructor Carey Morton, along with Rachel Unkefer of WriterHouse and Abbey Egner, a young writer, talked about the teen class recently on WNRN's Wake-Up call. Listen here. |
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Robert Wray will be offering
Playwriting during the Winter 2010 session. His class begins Saturday,
January 23.
Is there a particular book or essay (or screenplay) that made you want to write?
Actually, watching The Waltons as a kid inspired me to—albeit vaguely at the time—be a writer as I wanted to be John Boy! Also, reading
The Princess Bride at an early age helped, and then Pride and
Prejudice and Catcher in the Rye soon followed. The rest is history.What's the number one thing that distracts you when you're trying to write?The phone! And when my coffee machine beeps that it's off. Ugh.
If you could write from any location, where would it be?
Wherever inspiration strikes: A mountainside, my room, a cafe. The main thing is: Someplace quiet. |
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 Rachel Weaver will be teaching Creative Writing: Beginning the Journey on Friday mornings beginning January 22.
Is there a particular book or essay (or screenplay) that made you want to write?
As a child, I was terrified by Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
I wasn't a particularly fearful child in general, and I remember being
surprised and a little embarrassed that I could be so affected by a book. I
think that realization—that good writing can be incredibly powerful—was
the seed, at least, of my wanting to write.
What's the number one thing that distracts you when you're trying to write?
Inevitably the Internet distracts me, especially if I need to pause and look something
up. I can without warning find myself reading an article, then emailing it
to a friend, then returning an email to another friend about getting dinner, then—speaking
of dinner—searching new recipes. It can spiral out of control pretty
quickly. But eventually, I always get back to the story.
If you could write from any location, where would it be?
My grad school apartment in Missoula, Montana, which was solitary and cozy and inexplicably
inspiring. |
Order WriterHouse gift certificates online all year! Available in a variety of denominations to please any writer you know. |
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