Come join our Authentic Writing Studio in Manhattan on Saturday, February 16, 2013, 10am-12:30pm. You will go home with some fresh gutsy material. You need to register in advance, which you can do by going to our webiste, Authentic Writing.
Authentic Writing Workshops
I do almost all of my writing in our workshops. Founded in 1993, Authentic Writing is a memoir writing program designed to bring out the writer and artist in every person by supporting the expression of the writer's most individual story. We offer weekly groups in Woodstock, NY and Manhattan, as well as by phone -- so you can participate no matter where you live. If you want to write, if you want to deepen your writing, explore and experiment -- this is the place to be.
You Tube Clip
From a performance in January 2010, reading a short scene that occurs quite late in the story of this memoir in progress.
I think that writing memoir is the most potent action I can take in this world.
When I sit down to write – not an easy place to get to – I feel all my energies and abilities come into one focus, one laser point – I feel like a bird, pausing in mid-air, then plummeting down into the waves, intent on that one fish that will save it.
I write, then come up for air, then look at what I have unearthed. It usually looks like just a handful of dust, not worth much. I could easily toss it out and forget about it. But I don’t. Not anymore. I add it to the pile. I am not sure what I am building, but this is all I have. For some reason, it is my most precious thing, the one thing that feels purely my own.