Do you have an irrepressible desire to write? If you're in New York, The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites you to enroll in Do the Write Thing: A Fiction Writing Workshop with Ed Lin. That's right! The Ed Lin. Novelist and friend to this blog. He will teach you amazing things about writing. Or at least, some passably useful bits. Enroll now -- the six-week workshop begins this Sunday, July 10. Here are some more details:
Do the Write Thing: A Fiction Writing Workshop with Ed LinEd Lin is the author of the novels Waylaid, This Is a Bust, Snakes Can't Run and the forthcoming One Red Bastard. For more information on Ed and his work, check out his website. And for further information about the workshop, go to the AAWW website here.
Six Sundays from July 10 to August 14, 12-2PM
It's easy to bat around issues about character, plot, point of view, description, dialogue, setting, pacing, voice and theme (whew!) in terms of writing. But Ed Lin promises to spend as little time as possible talking about those concepts. 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 authors are generally right - even when they aren't sure of what they are doing.
The class requirements are:
1) an irrepressible desire to write and
2) ten pages of new fiction to be workshopped - due before the first class.
@The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Buzzer 600
Fee: $250 General/$225 Members
Deposit: $40 General Deposit/$36 Members