UPDATE JUNE 7, 2013: There are now a few slots available. We've decided to break the class into two separate workshops, so if you were unable to enroll before, you may have more success now! You can enroll here. UPDATE JUNE 6, 2013: I just checked the page for my class and saw it is …
Month: May 2013
A Two-Year MFA in Writing Reading List in One Post
"So I would imagine you have to do a lot of reading in an MFA program," I am sometimes asked. The answer is yes, and appropriately so: some believe the best way to learn to write is to read a lot, and to read critically. So what have I been reading the last two years …
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Being Creative While Avoiding Outsider Status
When someone asks you, "What do you do?" what is your answer? If you're like most of us, context matters. You might say one thing at a professional networking reception and quite another at a neighborhood block party. But how often do you answer, "I create art?" Part of living an art-committed life is fully …
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3 Steps Off the Path of an Art-Committed Life
It is one of my greatest fears. I have abandoned my creativity before; this blog is my chronicle of returning to an art-committed life and working to stay there. That is also a central theme of the travel memoir I am in the process of polishing to final. But it is so easy to drift away …
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Guest Post: Fine Arts, Creativity & the Aging Brain Positively Linked
Here at The Artist's Road we promote creative thinking and doing at any age. Dr. Francine Toder has written a book based both on scientific research and individual case studies that not only supports the notion that a "vintage" brain can take up a new artistic passion, but that there are many benefits to doing …
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A Pearl of Wisdom for Fiction Writers
Allow me to share with you a nugget for my readers who are fiction writers. This is from an essay on the great Victorian novelist George Eliot by Joseph Epstein, from his recently published essay collection Essays in Biography: One of the modern fiction workshop laws is that a writer should always show and never …
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