Monthly Archives: October 2009

Coming to WriterHouse in November — and beyond!

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WriterHouse Public Events

»Nanowrimo Kickoff, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2-5pm—Hosted by the Charlottesville official Municipal Liasons, Rachel and Sophia. Get to know the other area Wrimos, get stoked, and then get writing! We’ll probably meet and greet for an hour or so and then settle in for some serious writing. If you have leftover Halloween candy, bring it along and swap candies you hate for candies you love. We’ll also have soda and a bag or two of chips — if you feel like contributing, please do! Drop Sophia a note so she can keep track. If you haven’t already signed up, make it official!

»Literary Journals from Both Sides of the Transom, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2:30-4:30pm—Editors and writers enjoy a symbiotic relationship. How do they find each other? What can writers do to facilitate a “good match”? Linda Fritz, editor of The Delmarva Review, Thom Didato, Publisher and Founding Editor of Failbetter.com and Barbara Esstman, an accomplished writer/teacher and a contributor to The Delmarva Review in 2008, will compare and contrast their experiences in literary publishing, share their insights, and answer questions about how to get your work published. More info…

»Save the date:

  • 01-05-2010, 7:00 Launch Party for member Laura Bynum’s book Veracity

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Half-Day Seminars (Registration Required)

If you’ve wanted to take a class, but can’t commit to an eight-week schedule, our Saturday Seminar Series is for you.

Jennifer Burns and Stephen Elliott in the news

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Looking for a sneak preview of next week’s author events with Jennifer Burns and Stephen Elliott? Jennifer Burns will be talking about her book Goddess of the Market on America’s favorite faux-news show, The Daily Show with John Stewart, this Thursday, October 15. If you can’t catch the show on Comedy Central, the episode will be posted Friday at the web site. Goddess also received an incisive review in The New Republic.

As for Elliott’s The Adderall Diaries, it’s popping up all over the place. He was most recently interviewed on Gawker by none other than James Frey — very meta, as we say in the writing business (scroll down to the comments). The Rumpus is keeping a running list of Stephen’s appearances and reviews.

Both books are now available for purchase at WriterHouse and will also be available for signing at the events. We’ve had some awesome author events — if you haven’t already, go to our web site and sign up for email announcements so you don’t miss a thing.

Bogged Down in Blogging

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Reading about the “worm” that is making its way around “old, unpatched” versions of WordPress, I imagined the segmented, legless creature making its way through my mother’s mending pile. Weaving in and out of grass-stained dungarees, bare at the knees. In and out of holes in the linen, scorched by Cora’s iron. In and out of the heels and toes of socks, waiting for the darning egg.

I have no idea how things get patched in cyberspace, but I am assuming that it does not require the likes of a thimble, needle, and thread. Disposing of the worm does not require touching the untouchable and tossing it back into the dirt outside the back door. I am guessing that patches are easier to find in cyberspace than they are in the twenty-first century shopping mall.

All of this has got me thinking about blogging. That insidious worm is blogging its way through open spaces. A wide open page invites bloggers to blog, making their way into unpatched territory because they can. Lately, I have been inundated with blogs. Some days as I make my way through numerous holes I feel as though I am an aimless Alice, having lost my way, having no idea where this wiggling and wriggling is taking me. Blogs are linked to other blogs, just as the worm finds the hole in the overalls on the other side of the linen napkin. My day is spent and the mending still awaits my attention.

Coming soon to WriterHouse — save the dates

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WriterHouse Public Events

»NaNoPrepMo, 10-10-2009, 10-18-2009 and 10-25-2009, 2:00 PM—Come to meet the other local Wrimos (people participating in National Novel Writing Month) and get a jump on November. The rules allow outlines, character sketches, and any kind of planning that doesn’t involve actually writing your novel. Be ready to hit the ground running on November 1.

»Save these dates:

• 10-23-2009, 7:00 PM Ayn Rand Biographer Jennifer Burns

• 10-24-2009, 7:00 PM Stephen Elliott & The Adderall Diaries

• 11-07-2009, 2:30-4:30 Literary Journals: Both Sides of the Transom

More Public Event Details…

Half-Day Seminars (Registration Required)

If you’ve wanted to take a class, but can’t commit to an eight-week schedule, our Saturday Seminar Series is for you.

• 10-17-2009, 9:00 AM-1:00PM Elements of Fiction: Plot

• 10-24-2009, 9:00 AM-1:00PM Writing about Food—Turning Appetite into Art and Articles

• 11-21-2009, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM Elements of Fiction: Dialogue

• 12-5-2009, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM Spiritual Essay—Writing into the Questions