Free Class: Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 6 – 8 pm in Berkeley Our writing class community lead by me (published author/ distributed filmmaker/ Story Makers podcast host Elizabeth Stark) is hosting a free class for friends. Come join us to learn about what makes for excellent dialog and to write some yourself. Sign up here to attend: https://bookwritingworld.com/friends-week/ More details about location and what to expect will be sent to you after you sign up. I hope you can make it!
Not every writer writes every day. But anything you do daily becomes deeper and easier. A habit, a ritual, a way of life. It’s taken me a long time to have a domestic relationship with my writing, to get up in the morning and sit with it. But I am grateful for that dailiness the way I am grateful for the dailiness of my family life–something else I waited a long time to find. I didn’t have such routine in my childhood. Went back and forth between my parents’ houses, their lives. Now I come home–I almost always come home even if it’s late and a long drive. And this is how I feel now about writing, too. Always come home. Open the page, pull out the words, see what’s there. Sometimes it’s like loading the dishwasher and sometimes it’s like making out with your partner while the kids are buried in their books, but you just show up for it, because it’s part of your life.
Story Makers Show: In our lovely conversation with novelist, memoirist and essayist Paul Lisicky, we discuss the benefit of low expectations and the liberation of not worrying about having a huge audience followed by the surprise of getting one with his new memoir, The Narrow Door. Check out this week’s podcast guest at http://StoryMakersShow.com or on iTunes or Stitcher!
“I felt the need to be attuned to the heart of the work before anything else followed.” – Paul Lisicky