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- LAKESIDE FALL SCHEDULE
- NEW! WRITING WITH NANCY @ TT Patton in Barrington – 3 Wednesday nights in September.
- On Freelancing and Human Nature
- SAVE THE DATE :: LAKESIDE WRITING STUDIO RETREAT NOV 12TH-14TH
- Revision
- New! Storytelling Showcase with Powerpoint Twist=STORYOKE!
- Writing with Nancy Video
- Branches
- Look Out, I Bought A Mac
- I’m Not Having Enough Fun
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LAKESIDE FALL SCHEDULE
August 25, 2010 – 12:28 pm
NEW! WRITING WITH NANCY @ TT Patton in Barrington – 3 Wednesday nights in September.
August 23, 2010 – 3:17 pm
WED. Sept. 15th “Freewriting from Prompts–Getting Started” with my book,
“Branches: Writing About Friends, Family & Relationships.”
WED. Sept. 22nd teaching, “How To Create Comic Scenes”
- WED. Sept. 29th teaching, “Taking Real Stories into Fiction”
- Make a plan to meet-up for a Writing Date with Friends in the northwest suburban areas & catch Metra:
- Ogilvie Center: 05:06 05:12 05:20
Barrington : 06:06 06:17 06:13
Why not ride up and back with me?
Sign up: Here
SAVE THE DATE :: LAKESIDE WRITING STUDIO RETREAT NOV 12TH-14TH
August 19, 2010 – 10:44 pm
Lakeside Writing Studio’s November Retreat will be held at Lakeside Inn, Union Pier, Michigan.The cost is $275.00 for 2.5 days of workshop + 2 nights of lodging (single occupancy) that includes a Sat night dinner + reading. Space is limited to 12.
This workshop is designed for all genres and ability levels; the retreat’s aim is to generate new ideas and to re-purpose old ones for future writing projects. Get away before the holidays take over.
On Freelancing and Human Nature
August 23, 2010 – 2:43 pm
Fabulous article from the Awl.
(Please share other sites of new writing you love.)
Revision
April 29, 2010 – 1:55 pm
“Revision is when you first get to recognize the distance between what you wanted to write, what you thought you were writing, and what you actually did write. That recognition often makes you want to throw up.”
Carolyn See’s “Making a Literary Life.”
Me In the Throws of Revision
New! Storytelling Showcase with Powerpoint Twist=STORYOKE!
April 20, 2010 – 9:29 am
Storyoke is on Hiatus. (9/2010) Please leave a comment if you are interested in participating in the future…
“Storyoke,” is a laid-back storytelling showcase at Big Joe’s on Foster Ave. @ 6pm.
Watch videos at the Storyoke link of Stella McKearn, Elizabeth Bell, Iulia Ionescu, Tina Boyer, Stuart Luman, Nellie Huggins, Liza Ann Acosta, Jason Sarna and Brian Sweeney live at Big Joe’s Storyoking! more to come…
Sunday Storyoke is a new writing performance series that gives prose writers a slam experience in a relaxed atmosphere. Storyoke bridges literary genre gaps by bringing cool, funny and moving riffs to the stage just for the fun of it. During the show, each writer performs a very short set with an accompanying slideshow.
Beckett’s multi-genre, Lakeside Studio writers range from the sublime to the ridiculous and each program will shine with talented voices of the City, broadcast via closed circuit TV. Sunday Summer Storyoke takes place at Big Joe’s (1818 W. Foster), home of the $5 pitcher and Friday night turtle races. There will be prizes and audience participation at each show, cheap drinks and a patio in the back.
Aug. 22nd showcase lineup: Gabi Fitz, Annie Armstrong, Brian Sweeney, Adina Kabaker, Cathy Postillion, Stella McKearn and more…
For more details, visit the “STORYOKE” link.
Branches
June 18, 2009 – 3:22 pm
I’m please to announce the forthcoming publication of my new book of prompts, (July 2009) written with Lakeside Studio writer, Molly Connolly. See www.mollified.com for more about my fab collaborator.
Visit the “SHOP” link to purchase my book and start writing off of my tried-and true prompts.
I’m Not Having Enough Fun
May 25, 2008 – 8:00 am
I’ve hit the wall with this blog. I’ve decided I’d rather write an essay collection. I’m thinking of writing funny essays. Here’s my question: Who do you think is funny? (I mean people you know personally. Not some famous comedian.) And how important is that to you in choosing friends? Or collaborators? Or are there people who absolutely crack you up that you’d never want to befriend? You know, because they’re insane? I’ve had a few of those.
I just watched the bonus features on the Ricky Gervais 2nd season of *Extras* and it’s so clear to me that he surrounds himself with people who AMUSE him. On the DVD there is one long feature about how he likes to tape up his editor. This is a man who has worked with Gervais for YEARS. He tapes his head mostly with packing tape and paper bags torn up in scraps with doodles on them. But he also likes to tie up the editor’s whole body with tape. It cracks him up. He also has a guy on his *Podfather* podcasts who absolutely cracks him up–Karl. (If you’ve never listened to one here’s a link: www.rickygervais.com
The point is I don’t think that Gervais knows why he is drawn to these particular people–never mind Stephen Merchant his co-writer. I don’t think it matters to Gervais why these poor souls have been charged with amusing him in this life. All that matters is that he is delighted by them because they keep him going. So that’s what I’m going to try to do with my essays–just write about the people who crack me up. Then we’ll see if that translates to a reader.