The Writers Workshop Project is holding a one-day writers retreat Saturday May 22, 2010 at the Horine Conference Center in Jefferson Memorial Forest. This beautiful location and excellent facility close to Louisville will help inspire, and will be part of some of the workshops. Enjoy 3...
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In English, we don’t actually use the present tense to talk about the present. For instance, if someone asked you what you did yesterday, you might say, “I met my friends for dinner.” But if a friend called your cell phone and asked what you were doing right now, you wouldn’t say: “I meet my friends...
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Thought I’d share a draft from one of the creativity exercises for tonight. This one was “Associative Poetry” – after reading Charles Simic “In the Library” to the group, I joined them in writing a poem that began with an ordinary occurrence and ended with something surprising. I guess I had the idea of...
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