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River Writers of Manhattan: Slow Starts
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. I start very slowly, and don't actually begin to write the book until I can't stand not to write it. This method derives from my sense that one can start a book too soon, but almost never too late. (Stevan Polansky in GlimmerTrain). How do we know when to begin a project? Pay attention and get going! And it is in that moment when we really do have to build up some steam and prepare to chug away. My full-length p...
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River Writers of Manhattan: March 2010
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Saturday, March 27, 2010. Back to) Shaped Poems. OK, I know it is sort of silly to write poems in shapes, like angel wings or diamond rings. I get that it has the tang of the effete, as in a goose quill humanist script penned by a hand encased in an ink-flecked flocked-velvet cuff. The words locked in the vise of a vase or crammed in a crate. but. I digress. HOW TO WRITE A SHAPED POEM. 6 Accept that only 1 in 25 shaped efforts will be worth...
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River Writers of Manhattan: August 2009
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Saturday, August 15, 2009. Theater is Alive and Well in Provincetown. Take Me Out, Studs Turkel’s Working. Gross Indecency: The Trials of Oscar Wilde. Then there were a couple of plays at other venues. There was the one-man play,. Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire. 2 Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter’s Night. But that’s just the beginning. There are innumerable drag shows-. Etc This year I saw. 8217;s show,. Was also in t...
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River Writers of Manhattan: Wisdom for Writers from Comic Con
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Wisdom for Writers from Comic Con. Ross Ritchie and Jimmy Palmiotti, at Comic Con, drawn live by Claudia Carlson. Fellow River Writer Claudia Carlson. Also an accomplished artist, see sketches! Braved the fierce crowds Saturday at Comic Con to see the panel Comics, Hollywood - What Creators Need to Know. Creator of Daredevil) and Ross Ritchie. Of Boom Studios, and was moderated by Buddy Scalera. Toward the end of ...
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River Writers of Manhattan: May 2010
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Even before Nike adopted this phrase, it was extremely prevalent in our culture. It has a nice ring – just do it – forget all your hesitations and second thoughts, stop procrastinating, pull yourself together, and take the leap! Perhaps someone has even told you this about a creative project (or career) you’ve been thinking of undertaking, or a ritual you’ve been trying to establish. Links to this post. Going freela...
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River Writers of Manhattan: July 2009
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. THE URGE TO GIVE NOTES. Why do we feel compelled to give notes when we see a play? Or read a book, for that matter? There’s nothing wrong with being perceptive and analytical and sharing our discoveries and thoughts with others, but I find that many people are so quick to offer their notes, they fail to enjoy the work- or at least fail to help others enjoy the work, too. . 8221; “How funny! Links to this post. Who wa...
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River Writers of Manhattan: What a Bizarre Theater Season in New York!
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Monday, November 15, 2010. What a Bizarre Theater Season in New York! BRIEF ENCOUNTER. “Thrilling and wildly theatrical! LA BETE. Great performances by all 3 stars in the cast. Fun, compelling, intriguing, surprising—it’s all these things, and it rhymes. But enough already. It quickly grew tiresome. “Thumbs Sideways.”. 8220;Thumbs Up.”. It even survived the endless chattering of the two ladies sitting behind us. (Word of advice: if you ...
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River Writers of Manhattan: April 2010
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Monday, April 12, 2010. Why It's Not So Much Fun to Finish. Posted by Deborah Atherton. I think what we face, at the moment we finish, is the resistance that has been dogging us all along, surging for one final push to retain the status quo. And as artists, we have a responsibility to work through it and keep on. And to remember that, not too far in the future, we’ll be having that lovely, “Is it 3 AM already? Links to this post. The Northe...
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River Writers of Manhattan: Reading, chocolates, reading
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Reading, chocolates, reading. I have my addictions, you have yours. Hmmm, Garamond the usual choice, but here it is handled nicely with the subtle caps and small caps of titles, great white space, and that interesting dingbat next to the folio- is that one of the ornaments from Jenson? If I'm no longer thinking like a designer, I'm reading, and actively shaping the author's world in my mind. Labels: Ive got a bookworm.
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River Writers of Manhattan: September 2009
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River Writers of Manhattan. Writers Sharing Ideas and Resources. Wednesday, September 23, 2009. How much thought goes into coming up with the title for a book? Obviously that varies wildly from case to case. To give one self-serving example, the title of my doctoral dissertation was:. Hegel's Aesthetics and the Explosion of the Arts: A Hegelian Account of the Arts in the Twentieth Century. Does the writer have an obligation not to be misleading in the choice of title? I don’t know. Buyer beware? N (subti...
