Date: June 10 -15, 2018 at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. Details at www.hollins.edu/tmww.
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Writing tip Wednesday: “Tinker Mountain Writers”
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Writing tip Wednesday: “Tinker Mountain”
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Writing tip Wednesday: “Squaw Valley Workshops”
Poetry and Writing Workshops in June and July 2015.
Details of the workshops and where to get more information.
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Writing tip Wednesday: “Who are you?”
On Saturday, February 1, 2014, I took a workshop sponsored by the Knoxville Writers’ Guild (www.knoxvillewritersguild.org) and led by nationally published author Pamela Schoenewaldt (www.PamelaSchoenewaldt.com and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pamela-Schoenewaldt/158580547517755?ref=tn_tnmn).
The workshop was on character development. What you have below is one of the three handout exercises from the workshop. I will be posting the others over time. Each handout can be done in ten minutes or less, and oftentimes not pondering too long is best. The first exercise is called “Who are you?” The you refers to the character. This worksheet can be used for the both the protagonist and antagonist of the story or novel you are working on, or just about any character you want to use it on. It might even be helpful if writing a memoir or biography.
WHO ARE YOU?
Your name is . . .
Your age is . . .
I can see that you are . . . (location)
And you’re looking at . . .
And you’re feeling . . . .
Your great strength is . . . .
Your fear or weakness is . . . .
It’s too bad that . . . .
You’d really laugh if . . . .
Most people don’t know that you . . .
Very soon you must . . . .
The challenge will be . . . .
You will get strength from . . . .
Looking in your eyes, I know that . . .
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Writing Tip Wednesday: “Community of Writers”
Held in Squaw Valley, California
www.squawvalleywriters.org / 530-470-8440
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Writing tip Wednesday: “Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop”
The flyer I received on this workshop said: “Take your writing to amazing new places. (Thanks to a talented faculty and the Blue Ridge Mountains.)”
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The quick bits:
Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop
June 9 – 14, 2013
Hollins University
P.O. Box 9552
Roanoke, VA 24020-1552
Fax: 540-561-2325
Phone: 540-362-6229
E-mail: cpowell@hollins.edu
Web: hollins.edu/tmww
A little more information (Click on any of the graphics below to get a larger view of the information.):
2013 Workshops, part 1
2013 Writing Workshops, part 2
2013 cost information
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Workshop Weekend: Roadmap for this blog
In case you’re wondering, and even if you aren’t, I would like to take a few moments and explain the new layout I am adopting for this blog. I have decided to make at least every work day specific to something. For example, Monday morning writing joke will be a joke focused on writing or about writing. It might also be a limerick (though nothing too naughty) or pun, which is something I have a weakness for.
Next: CarToonsday will be a cartoon, usually based in some way around writing, but not always.
Writing Tip Wednesday will have writing tips. It could also have recommendations of writing books to try, or information about writing conferences, or agents looking for new clients.
Haiku to you Thursday will be a haiku. At least for as long as I can write what I consider to be good quality ones. Sometimes I’m sure I’ll spit out a clunker, but sometimes you have to fail in order to succeed.
At times, the roadmap might be under construction.
Freeform Friday will be another poem, maybe not a haiku but something else, or writing such as a Blathering idiot installment, The Devil’s Dictionary, an essay. Maybe even something I haven’t tried before. Could even be another cartoon. (As if one a week is not enough.)
Story Saturday will be a part of a story. Something I am working on. Could also be a Found Story (photo with piece of writing about the photo). Could even be a whole story, if short enough. Or I may write something about my struggles to write stories, though I am sure that would get old and boring quickly.
Sunday? I may just take off. Or take off Saturday and make it Story Sunday. Or the whole weekend could be titled Workshop Weekend.
I have noticed on weekends there are usually fewer visitors to my blog. People are off doing other things, I assume. Plus a day off won’t hurt. I have a regular job, family obligations, and am working on a novel and short stories as well. On my days off, I aim for between 300 and 400 words of new writing on my stories or novel. So doing that and a blog entry can be tough. I might also skip a day here and there if I don’t have something that fits that day’s theme.
Certainly, comments and suggestions are welcome. And visits, too. The more the better. I aim to keep humor and wit of one stripe or another going on this blog. You may not be rolling in the floor laughing and sometimes you might even be rolling your eyes and groaning at the puns, but at least you’re not having to pay for the self-inflicted humor wound.
Last, but not least, thank you to all who have visited my blog and especially so to those who have linked up to receive notification when I post something new. I do appreciate it. Very much. Part of the reason for trying to more regularize the format is so that you know what’s coming.
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