Davis Square Writing Group
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davis_squareDear Davis Squarians,
I've finally started getting a routine going, and wanted to pick up writing again. It's been a while since I've written anything that takes a spark of creativity and wasn't related in some way to blogs, political message boards, recipes, or technical help support forums.
Does anyone really know what "four score and seven years" actually equates to? Not that it matters, but knowing that type of language in literature might be something useful to a writer.
The idea is to organize with at least 2 other writers, with probably no more than 5, to get together 1-2 times a week. The best times for me would be Mondays through Thursdays from 6:30PM - 7:30PM. If a group for that day feels like it, we could extend that to 8:30PM by having dinner, either as a potluck at someone's house, or at one of the local restaurants where the ambient noise doesn't make it difficult to talk with one another.
This is something I did with a friend four years ago (he was 91, and I was 25 back then), and there were a lot of topics we came up with that we eventually wrote about. We would spec out situations, ideas, possibilities, relations to our own pasts, etc. This would help us to continue to write, even if only for an hour a day, but enough where we wouldn't just sit in the empty space that's known as writer's block.
Let me know if you're interested, and if so, tell me about yourself. Here's nearly three decades of relativity summed up for your 15 second reading pleasure:
Born in Houston, TX, I was the first American-born from my immediate family that immigrated from South Korea. At the age of nine, we moved to the Pacific Northwest. That move was where I first realized the power of perception, and how to use it to my advantage. I transgressed the expectations of conformity, and became a pseudo pacifist at the age of 11, a vegetarian at the age of 12, and started college at the age of 16, but made sure not to graduate high school early because of my friends. When I attended the University of Washington, I worked with infant primates, but I got too attached and dropped out to join the military. After my service in the U.S. Navy, well... eight years later, here I am with you folk, trying to organize a writing ensemble. If you want to know more, I guess you'll have to join the writing group. :)
By the way, emoticons are not healthy for writers.
I've finally started getting a routine going, and wanted to pick up writing again. It's been a while since I've written anything that takes a spark of creativity and wasn't related in some way to blogs, political message boards, recipes, or technical help support forums.
Does anyone really know what "four score and seven years" actually equates to? Not that it matters, but knowing that type of language in literature might be something useful to a writer.
The idea is to organize with at least 2 other writers, with probably no more than 5, to get together 1-2 times a week. The best times for me would be Mondays through Thursdays from 6:30PM - 7:30PM. If a group for that day feels like it, we could extend that to 8:30PM by having dinner, either as a potluck at someone's house, or at one of the local restaurants where the ambient noise doesn't make it difficult to talk with one another.
This is something I did with a friend four years ago (he was 91, and I was 25 back then), and there were a lot of topics we came up with that we eventually wrote about. We would spec out situations, ideas, possibilities, relations to our own pasts, etc. This would help us to continue to write, even if only for an hour a day, but enough where we wouldn't just sit in the empty space that's known as writer's block.
Let me know if you're interested, and if so, tell me about yourself. Here's nearly three decades of relativity summed up for your 15 second reading pleasure:
Born in Houston, TX, I was the first American-born from my immediate family that immigrated from South Korea. At the age of nine, we moved to the Pacific Northwest. That move was where I first realized the power of perception, and how to use it to my advantage. I transgressed the expectations of conformity, and became a pseudo pacifist at the age of 11, a vegetarian at the age of 12, and started college at the age of 16, but made sure not to graduate high school early because of my friends. When I attended the University of Washington, I worked with infant primates, but I got too attached and dropped out to join the military. After my service in the U.S. Navy, well... eight years later, here I am with you folk, trying to organize a writing ensemble. If you want to know more, I guess you'll have to join the writing group. :)
By the way, emoticons are not healthy for writers.
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Date: 2008-09-27 01:33 pm (UTC)FYI, I write poetry and am beginning to work on short fiction as well. (think: longer than a story, shorter than a novella)
If anyone would be interested in meeting once per week on a Sunday to do a little workshopping and brainstorming, email me at beckykaufman at gmail dot com.
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