Writing Rendezvous 2004

Pre-Conference Workshops
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Alaska Center for the Book will again be offering pre-conference workshops. These workshops will be held on Friday April 16, on the First floor of the Loussac Library. These workshops will be three hours long and are limited so register early. The fee is $30 per workshop and registration will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please apply in writing to Alaska Center for the Book, 3600 Denali St, Anchorage AK 99503 and include payment for both Writing Rendezvous and the workshop, payable by check or money order (to Alaska Center for the Book). Please include an email address or phone number so that we can notify you of acceptance.

Marybeth Holleman
Writing Passions
9 am to Noon

 
Writers and readers know that the written word contains the power to create lasting change. And writers know that we write best about that which we are most passionate. Sometimes we run up against the question Rick Bass once posed-when your house is on fire, do you sit back and write a poem about it or do you throw water on the flames? When do we write and when do we take other action? And-the question we'll ask in this workshop--how can we write passionately without falling into the pit of diatribe, where our words fall on deaf ears? Learn how to "complicate the obvious:" bring 15 copies of up to three pages (typed, double-spaced, one-inch margins) of a work-in-progress
whose topic is something for which you'd fall on your sword.
  

Colleen Bollen
Play with Words
2 pm to 5 pm

 

Use this playshop to get your creative juices flowing. Learn how music, movement, dreamtime and writing exercises can awaken your creative energies and outfox patterns of self-sabotage. This three hour workshop will jump-start your imagination and give you tools you can use in your daily life.

 

Rachel Simon
Getting The Big Picture To Work:
The Three Most Powerful Secrets of Craft, and
How They’ll End Your Writer’s Block Forever
2 pm to 5 pm.

 

Many young writers can write a beautiful sentence, but struggle to get their stories to work overall. In this enlightening, fun, hands-on workshop, you’ll not only learn about the three elements of craft that can make or break a story -- exposition, showing versus telling, and scene – but you’ll come to understand each in such a fresh and exciting way that you’ll leave the workshop with new confidence. Through a series of lively discussions and stimulating exercises, you’ll learn how to open a story without being boring; how to assess when you should show, when you should tell, and when you should do something in between; and how to write scenes so that every word counts. As an added bonus, this workshop will also provide you with all the tools you need to avoid writer’s block forever. This workshop, which will apply to writers of both fiction and memoir, will take you beyond your previous instruction on craft, and move you closer to writing like a pro.

Other opportunities to see Rachel Simon:

Thursday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.

Reading and signing at Title Wave Books

Friday, April 16, Noon-1 p.m.

Leadership Anchorage talk, part of “Taking Risks, Practicing Courage” leadership series. Rachel’s subject: “Courage to Make Life Changes.” Wilda Marston Theatre, Z.J. Loussac Public Library (free)

Rachel Simon is the author of Riding the Bus with My Sister, the story of the year she spent riding the buses ALL DAY with her sister, Beth, a developmentally disabled woman. After this great leap of change, Simon left “most of her jobs behind, found her way back to her sister, and rediscovered her friendships.” The courage of making change.

  

 

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