More Words for the Workshop

THIRD ANNUAL SPRUCETON INN WRITERS WORKSHOP AND                                     RETREAT   
          

           Words from the heart – Writing from the Inside Out


September 22 – September 24

Spruceton Valley, tucked away in the heart of the Northern Catskills.


A time and place to reflect and find your story.


CONTACT: 

HTTPS://WWW.SPRUCETONINN.COM/WORKSHOPS-RETREATS


Experience has shown me that dogmatism starts wars and breeds mediocrity. Yes, of course, there are creative ways to make a tone-deaf line sing. Good technique alerts you to these things. Better technique alerts you to more. You test them out, and, if they don’t work, you go beyond them. So, how do you learn technique? I got it by osmosis, by reading. 


My advice? Read. A lot. Read more. Read what you want to write and then read everything else.  Fiction, non-fiction, plays, poetry, newspapers, billboards, labels, stop signs, parking tickets, graffiti, faces. Go large. Range wide. Cross reference. Peer under rocks. Let all this seep into your bloodstream until it becomes a permanent part of the flow. Nothing is unimportant.

So, come, write, reflect, and we’ll talk.