Noon-2pm, Saturdays July 10-August 14, 6 sessionsYou've been writing away at a novel or collection of short stories for months, maybe years, but you wonder if you're hitting all the required markers for character, plot, point of view, description, dialogue, setting, pacing, voice and theme (whew!).
Throw out all those preconceived notions, including the dumbest dictum of all: Write every day.
You are the strongest force that drives a story. Your compelling desire to describe people and their problems overrules anything else, and your own way of doing it is the only right way. Ed Lin supports the idea that writing is akin to playing a musical instrument that no one else has ever seen or heard before and that the authors are generally right, even if they aren’t sure of what they are doing.
If you don’t love and respect writing or are focused only on getting published, Lin doesn’t want you in his goddamned class.
Suitable for good people at all levels. A 10-PAGE SUBMISSION OF FICTION IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. Please register below then send your submission to ed (at) edforpresident (dot) com.
Ed Lin is the author of the novels Snakes Can't Run (2010), This Is a Bust (2007) and Waylaid (2002).
@ The Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, Sixth Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
About Our Workshops
The Workshop prides itself on being a safe, nurturing space for writers of all levels and ethnicities to develop artistically and professionally. Novelists Min Jin Lee, Ed Lin, and Monique Truong first began to find their ways as writers via our writing workshops and literary enrichment programs. Our writing workshops are affordable and intimate, a space where one builds friendships that often last longer than the duration of the class. Former Poet Laureate of Queens, Ishle Yi Park has said, "The Workshop nurtured and raised me. A home away from home, a nest, a gathering place, a refuge, a resource. Word."
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