After Writing School

Here it is, Monday morning, the 29th of July.  Coursework is over.  Have I learned anythng?  Yes.  Do I have a clear sense of direction?  No.

I want to write but I have less of an idea about what I want to write than I did , mid-week.   I've got a great memoir but I don't really want to do a memoir.  Can I do a novel?  Can I do short stories?   It's all based upon what I can do to develop characters.   4 primary characters?   Then do the stories and fit the story to the character.  

How long will it take?  Who knows!  

I've now got an agenda but it's one without a timeline.......

One tends to forget that it does get cold.....

8:23am.   Sunday morning, 28 July.

Not a cloud in the sky.....blue sky and cold!  It is 10 degrees outside.  It isn't even August, yet.....too cold for me in the morning.

I completed the last piece for submission to the workshop classes.   Let us see how it is 'seen'......

The trip to Iowa City has been a worthwhile 'interlude' to my life.  I've learned some things here - I think I have a sense of literary direction.

Let us see......

Wake up time along the Great Plains

So now I have a blog?   Let us see how my friend and computer guru brings this over to my web site. That would be great - to be able to add a daily blog (when out of Chine) to the site......next, after that, it'll be adding pictures to the gallery......slowly but surely......

Here I am, Thursday, fourth of five days for the week long workshop.  It's good, thus far as I am learning what I have to do to start upon a 'venture into fiction'.  I'm no where near  being ready to begin - I've got to develop the main characters first, then start writing brief stories as I go over the years I want to cover.

Anyhow,  now I have to face today's tasks at hands - and first and foremost is the choice coming up:  do I shave today, or not???

LL
6:25am
25 July
Iowa City 

Wednesday morning in Iowa City

Here it is, hump day - the middle of the week for the five day writers workshop.

I met, this morning, with the workshop leader, Carolyn Lieberg.  I now have far more of an idea of what I want to do;  how I must prepare myself for the craft I wish to pursue.

And so I will do it.   First step is doing a new blog.  This is it.   Now to see if  we can get this blog to my website.....!