WRITING COSTA RICA February 16 to 25, 2012 Break your writers block! Inspire your muse! Reclaim your passion and creative expression!
I MAKE LOVE TO THE WORLD (SONG 26): from the forthcoming book of Chalcedony songs.
Writing and Vulnerability:
"Do I have to?" Just that quickly this elegant, confident-looking woman backs off, the moment
I announce that we'll be reading our writing aloud. The raw, corrosive fear in her voice surprises
me. "You don't have to," I reassure her, "but we'll twist your arm just a little."
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Excitement: Writing is an
adventure, and the excitement it generates comes from more than getting words on the page. When our
writing chooses its own way, or even just meanders, it can take us to surprising and provocative places.
I see these journeys emerge in workshops often, and their origin is something of a mystery.
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Appreciation is a sweet, inadequate word. And it’s my usual answer when I’m asked why our
workshops are productive: “Appreciation is key,” I say. “We appreciate each other’s writing.”
Gracious enough and correct for the ambiance. But “appreciation” doesn’t identify the engine that
makes the workshops powerful. And doesn’t indicate the scope of the enterprise.
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Listening: “Onto the side
street with worn cobblestones underfoot, following the clacking steps of his younger sister, but a man
looks out the iron filigree of a café window and shouts….”
Pedro’s writing captured us, moving into this European land and then he upped the ante, bringing in a
figure like a ghost.
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"Best Writing Teacher": East Bay Express, 2006