lust for write: fiction workshop with ed lin

Hey, writers. My man Ed Lin, author of the novels Snakes Can't Run, This Is a Bust and Waylaid (and former Angry Reader of the Week) is running a fiction workshop that starts up this weekend in New York: Lust for Write, brought to you by the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Here are the details:

Lust for Write
Noon-2pm, Saturdays July 10 - August 14, 6 sessions

You'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) edlinforpresident (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

$40 non-mem deposit/$36 mem deposit

$200 non-mem/$175 mem

Yes, you read that correctly: if you don't love and respect writing or are just focused on getting published, Ed doesn't want you in his goddamn class. It's only for the sexy people. Like Ed. For more information about the workshop, go here.