"A series of stumbles and wrong turns"

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Jason Boog

August 1, 2006

Over at Pete Lit, I found a post chock-full of links about the Northwestern Summer Writers' Conference. The essay sums up all the inspiration and intensive advice that a well-run creative writing workshop can produce.

Just like I said in The Complete Blogged MFA Experience, these workshops aren't for everybody, but you can make up your own mind by reading about them in the blogosphere.

I spliced together my favorite parts of Pete's post, giving you a few lessons to read this afternoon. Read the whole thing:

"Alex Kotlowitz gave a great talk on the writer's life ... It's interesting to note that he never had any sort of great plan to become a writer, saying that a writing career is 'a series of stumbles and wrong turns.' ... Next up was a workshop called 'Image as Story', led by Peggy Shinner ... Then after lunch, it was Deb Olin Unferth's workshop 'The Short-Short Story.'"

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Nice summation. Have you ever considered editing for Readers Digest?

Posted by: Pete | August 1, 2006 1:21 PM | Permalink to Comment

Ugggh, Pete. I don't want to edit for Reader's Digest for a variety of reasons. For one thing, when I was a kid, the "Drama in Real Life" feature used to freak me out.

Nevertheless, you did all the work on that post, and it was pretty helpful. Thanks for writing...

Posted by: Jason Boog | August 1, 2006 1:28 PM | Permalink to Comment

Only one reason is necessary--the magazine is utter and complete crap.

Posted by: Pete | August 2, 2006 1:48 PM | Permalink to Comment

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