Novelist, TV Writer, and Writing Teacher
A great piece about the importance of reading to a writer. I agree 100%. Now that I’m writing my next book I’m reading constantly and what I read changes how I write. Yesterday, I read “The Rules of Inheritance” by Claire Bidwell Smith, a must read for her way with words, honesty, wisdom and structure. Her book inspired me to dig deeper. Thank you, Claire. And thank you for this, Jill Swenson.
Check it out here.
This woman. Amy Ferris: author of “Dancing at the Shame Prom,” “Marrying George Clooney,” “Shades of Blue,” etc. Wonderfully brave, life-changing books by a writer extraordinaire, a brilliant and fiercely kind writing teacher. And a crackup. Amy Ferris is a woman who lifts up other women and shines her bright, bright light on them. How lucky was I to take a writing workshop with her, where she asked if I had copies of my book with me. “No,” I said. “Get them,” she insisted. “Ask your husband to bring them over. Do it!” And so I did and he did and she made sure everyone at the workshop knew this was my book. How lucky am I learn about the generosity of this woman, Amy Ferris, and to have her shine her bright, bright light on my novel? Damn lucky. And I’m going to keep paying that forward. Thank you, wonderful and amazing Amy. Oh, how I love you.
Don’t miss two very special events with the talented Linda Schreyer at the Westport Library and Nanuet Library!
Linda Schreyer, co-author with Jo-Ann Lautman of Tears and Tequila, discusses this story of love, loss, friendship, courage and, most of all, renewal. It tells of the healing that happens when you become part of a community in which everybody is missing someone. This novel about love, loss and renewal will make you laugh, cry and invest in the lives portrayed.
“With compassion and a light hand which only true understanding can provide, the authors impart important life lessons on how to cope with grief and find a new path to happiness.”—Edie Lutnick Co-Founder and President, The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
Westport Library
Event Details:
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where:McManus Room- Westport Library, 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT 06880
Contact Info: 203.291.4800
Nanuet Library
Event Details:
When: Thursday, May 14, 2015, 6:30-8:45 PM
Where: The Nanuet Library, 149 Church Street, Nanuet, NY 10954
Contact Info: 845-623-4821
Linda Schreyer continues her Writers’ Talk at Studio West podcast series with an insightful interview with naturalist and grief writer Mark Liebenow.
Mark Liebenow is a grief author and naturalist.
“His essays on grief have been published in grief journals like Modern Loss, The Manifest Station, and Open to Hope, as well as in literary journals like River Teeth, Chautauqua, Saint Katherine Review, Antler, and Under the Sun. He is a member of the Refuge in Grief community and coordinates its Grief Café. He writes about grief on his website widowersgrief.blogspot.com, and is finishing up work on his grief memoir.
Liebenow is the author of four books, the most recent being Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2012. His essays, poems, and literary criticism have been published in journals like The Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Rain Taxi Review. ” -www.markliebenow.com
His grief blog is widowersgrief.blogspot.com, his Twitter @MarkLiebenow2, and his website is markliebenow.com. Please visit his website for more information.
And of course, enjoy the podcast!
Slipper Camp- It’s About Time
Begins: May 20th
Dear Writers,
I’m excited to announce a brand new Slipper Camp. The subject: IT’S ABOUT TIME.
WHAT IS SLIPPER CAMP?
Slipper Camp is a 20 day online writing experience. (10 days of receiving writing prompts; 2 days to write each one.) I call it Slipper Camp because you can stay home and write in your PJ’S and slippers.
You will be asked to write 1,000 words every other day (approx.. 2 pages) on a prompt of your choice and you will send it to me by midnight of the following day.
Slipper Camp starts on May 20. If you sign up, please make sure you have the time to do this. When the 20 days are up, you will have written 20,000 words. No small feat.
After it ends, we will talk (over the phone) about your writing.
HOW TO ENROLL?
Once you’ve accepted this invitation you will receive a PM from me with further instructions.
Class is limited to 10 students so please sign up now if you’re interested. It fills up quickly.
THE TOPIC: IT’S ABOUT TIME
“What time is it?” “How much time will it take?” “I have no time for myself.” “How much time do I have left?”
This Slipper Camp will guide you to write about time, in any way you choose. This can be a great opportunity to say what you’ve been thinking about or longing to say; you can reflect what time means to you. Every day there will be several different prompts to choose from.
What you write will depend on how the prompts hit you.
SLIPPER CAMP
In 2011, I noticed that there were many online Writing Boot Camps – they all ask for writing to be done every day. I decided that pace was too hectic – ergo, Slipper Camp. Geared to our busy lives. A gentler way to get some great writing done over 20 days. I create three unique prompts per day for you to choose from – totaling 30 prompts per Slipper Camp.
Now, over 200 writers later this is my 12th Slipper Camp with brand new prompts.
Tuition is the same as always – $200 ($10/day for 20 days.)
– OPEN TO THE FIRST 10 WRITERS WHO SIGN UP.
Please pass this on, if you like. Slipper Camp makes a great gift for someone else and.. we have gift certificates! (Sign up via https://lindaschreyer.wordpress.com/events/, through Facebook, or email me @lspravina21@gmail.com)
Writers, writers everywhere. If you are like me and you get completely engrossed in writing on your computer, here’s what you need!http://www.dejal.com/timeout/
This is an app that reminds you to take a break, dims your computer screen if you’re break-resistant and allows you to set how often it reminds and for how long. Aside from all of your other magnificent suggestions (drink water!!) I just downloaded this to help me help myself! Thank you, Tracey A, for this. Take a look…
#TBT to when I made my own flyers for my writing classes and this was back when there was no photoshop. So I had to scan all those book covers and size them manually!
I was twelve when Tibor Gergely drew me, in his studio on Lexington Avenue in NYC, lost in my favorite activity. Now, decades later, I get to go back to my home and read from the book I wrote. Words can’t describe the joy and excitement in my heart today.
Books. The messengers that got me through my childhood. Messengers from other worlds that took me on fascinating journeys. I could disappear into books for hours and emerge, renewed, as if from a long, deep and restful sleep. They saved me then. They save me now.
When I was all of 22 I decided I wanted to teach. But I only wanted to teach in a school like Summerhill, which I’d read about and loved. I learned of such a school nearby, in Rockland County, where I lived at the time. I walked in, met the four teachers who’d started it a year earlier, began to volunteer the following week and ended up teaching there for the next 7 years. Those 4 teachers are in this photo, taken at a reunion 5 years ago. Our students are still in touch with us. We all, teachers, students, parents changed each other’s lives. Jim, you were/are the heart of the school. Can’t wait to be together in May.
Linda Schreyer 