Building my tiny empire
March 13, 2013How great are all of you, sharing in my Tic Tac box obsession? I knew I was surrounded by a community of fellow weirdos. I just didn't know how weird.
And now I know. Deeply, deeply weird. You are all invited into my blanket fort.
Secondly, I have a couple of business announcements. Behold!
The Practice of Writing is almost but not quite full, so I need to close registration in the next few days. If you want to sign up, now's your chance!
Also, I am officially hanging out my shingle as a writing coach. If you're serious about your writing and could use one-on-one help with your manuscript, stories, essays, poetry, or blog, here's more information.
(I'm really excited about this. I've been unofficially coaching a handful of students, and I love it more than I love Orange Tic Tacs.)
Other ideas I'm tossing around for the future: a mini-Practice of Writing course (maybe a week long?), as well as workshops for smaller groups. If you have any thoughts on what you'd like to see offered, what questions you need answered, what needs I can fulfill, speak up!
Reader Comments (17)
I would love to do a workshop for a smaller group! I don't know if you could hold it in person because I know that you have students everywhere, but if it was in person HOLY CRAP THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
Lindsay, if we could get a small group together locally, that would be great!
So, have you seen Neil Gaiman's calendar of tales project? He solicited a bunch of writing prompts over twitter and then wrote short stories based on them (now is soliciting illustrations for the stories). Those prompts were awesome. I would have loved something that instead threw out to the crowd writing of the stories.
I'm not sure exactly what I'm suggesting for you, or, more importantly, how you would make good bones from it. But the idea of being one of many writers with a few prompts from twitter...and we can all read each others stories... and it's out there in some communal way that encourages everyone's best work, but also let's it be shared...maybe the best stories are picked for some final project?
I think the moral of this story is that BlackBerry should give you money.
Brigid, I love the way you think. I'm definitely going to mull that one over. I love the idea of a community project.
I'm thisclose to signing up for your online class, but I need some sort of tiny little push to hit the button...or more info on a mini-course or a local class, as I'm also in NYC. I'm hesitating on the class because I'm curious about the other options...
Hi Hilary! The other options are all sort of hypothetical at this point, if that helps any. It's just me mulling things over for the future. Let me know if you have any other questions about the class!
I am so impressed you are taking it to the limit, as you absolutely should. You own that talent! Can't wait to follow your trajectory ever higher.
This sounds wonderful! I want to do it but I am not ready. I just started a new job and all of my energy is going to that. Plus, I am a genre writer. Are you interested in working with horror/fantasy type writers?
Jessica: yes! And don't worry, if you're not available this time, I'll be doing it again.
Commenter Hilary: dewit!! Like you, I was once a hesitant participant, but last fall when Alice announced her first workshop I decided to bite the bullet, and it was totally worth it! Alice isn't even paying me to say this--I just really enjoyed the course and it prompted me to wake up and write and think about other things I want to write. In conclusion: doooooooo iiiittttttt!
I did - I signed up yesterday and am SO ready to get my creative on. Thanks, dgm!
Oh, thanks, dgm! Hilary, I'm excited you're on board. This is going to be the best one yet. I can feel it in my increasingly porous bones. (Too dark?)
(Not too dark. We're about the same age - I get it. Although at this point I'm more concerned about my grey streaks.)
Did I miss the boat? The course starts tomorrow....please let me know!
I'm with Emily above. Just wondering if we can still register? I think the workshop starts today?
Do you remember when orange tic tacs used to be orange through and through? Now they have a sad little orange coating on them and they're WHITE inside.
Um, Alice? I missed this. And I am sad. And all the pots and pans in the house cannot hold all the tears I am crying. Okay, that's a little exaggerate-y. But see how much I need your workshop? I just used the word exaggerate-y with a famous blogger. Please tell me when the next one is. I hope it's soon. Like, as in tomorrow. Is it tomorrow?