It is at the urging of my Quixotic friends and fellow writers that I start this quest to provide a resource for knights errant. Perhaps this will be a motivational point for writers chasing windmills in hope of defeating the Rejection Monster and finding a safe haven for their manuscript. We'll start out easy. If it has been a while since you were in school - any school - and you have not been writing on a near daily basis, I suggest taking a class or two. Now, if we only knew of someplace you could do that.
Odds bodkins man, there are several places one can go. Let's start with the obvious and leave it at that for now. http://www.cln.iupui.edu/content.asp?area=CS Select Course Catalog followed by Arts and Humanities (Do not mistakenly click on Oh The Humanities or you end up studying about airship disasters.). Depending on what month you click on this site, you will be directed to numerous A&H courses. If you do so before June 2nd, 2009, you will find a class entitled: Creative Writing I. Read the Description. If that fits your current needs, click on Sections and Registrations. Click the Sign Up button and, well, sign up. If you do that, I will see you in class.
The first entry will be brief. I am heading off to the Grand Opening of IUPUI's Continuing Studies Office. Though I am sure the wild gala will deflate me, I am going to suck it up and head to Crestview Elementary to bid farewell to Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Papacek. Retiring they are, and we shall have one last glass of punch together.
That's it. That's how this thing begins. If I cannot complete my goal of helping other writers and perhaps energize the Hoosier writing community, I will still be able to hold my head up high and say...I have a blog.
I'm already a fan, and now I'm a FOLLOWER... Sounds scary. As a more experienced blogger (by 2 weeks, sniff sniff), the only thing you might do is note somewhere prominently that your advice about classes, etc. will be for the Indianapolis area. YOU'RE NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BLOGGER, and some people will be confused.
ReplyDeleteHEY! If someone wants to fly in from London or Fiji to attend one of my classes, who am I to tell them no?
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