Hi all!
I was just going through some old notebooks and came across a lot of work from writing groups I used to run in Detroit and in Madrid. I forgot how much I loved it...so...I've decided to start up again.

Here's how it works:

Women only.
English-writing only.
Creativity seekers, closet journalers, bar napkin poets, even published writers.

We meet once a week and write together. Sometimes with topics like, um...red things, or first kiss, or favorite smells.

We do exercises in things like "show don't tell," oulipo-style creativity such as..writing without using the letter "e" for example, freewriting...

Alot of the ideas I use are drawn from the book "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg, if you are familiar with it.

The actual goal of the group is to produce work...to write, to etch out on paper what's banging around up in the cerebrum.

From there we can always work on refining, editing, etc...but the idea is to produce. To write with fury and commitment, ink flying, ideas flowing.

I am thinking of Sunday evenings as the get together time, but am open to other ideas. I am also thinking of starting in December.

Let me know if you are interested with an email to candyleelaballe@yahoo.com

cheers...

oh...why women only...nothing devious there...it's just my group and i bond over paper better with women, that's all!

I'm game, but I can't join in till March, so if you still have openings then I'm totally in.

Hey! Can I join? Are you going to make some 'tests ' for the non-native speakers?

Hi Hola...that's kinda redundant, no?

Anyway...there are no tests, I just wanted it to be clear that this is no place for practicing English. Also we all need to be writing in the same language as there will be times for feedback and critique, and I know I for one can't tell the poignancy of a metaphor in Spanish...i can and do and am very good at...luxuriating in English words though...and the folks that have contacted me so far with interest seem to feel the same way.

Basically, the group is a place for inducing creativity, and creating work.

So, if you like to write, and do so in English, send me an email and I'll add you to the list.

Right now the potential time and day is Sunday at 7pm, though I am open to suggestions for a weekday, around 8ish.

Cheers,
Candy

hmmmmmmmmmmmm... not sure i should allow sexual discrimination on this message board

saludos,
jer...

hey this isn't sexual discrimination...this is candy discrimination! and don't get me wrong...i adore men...maybe too much! i just don't want to write with em.

quote:

i just don't want to write with em.

Point well taken, Candy. I don't want to write with women.

No sexual discrimination taken.

Shawn

Ooooh! Sounds like a yummy idea! Just great. Been a while since I've set my pen free! Been crunching numbers too much lately... I am in. Do I have to write directly at your other addy or is this fine?

hey, i am a woman!! and i have that book about writing (although have opened it maybe once since i bought it!!) which just goes to show you that i NEED to join a writing group!!!!! sunday nights are good for me, too...wow, this is exciting... my email is juliebean5@hotmail.com. have you started yet?!?!?! i can't wait! i hope to hear from you soon!

Hey, just to publicly broadcast the details...we will be having the WWG on Wednesdays at 19:30. We are still thinking of a cafe to meet in. I am leaning towards CAfe Comercial, but am open to suggestions. We will probably start the week of the 13th of December because of the upcoming puente. Julie Bean I will add you to the mailing list:
so far we are 7.
candela

Oh, I can't on wednesdays

i can't on wed nights either :-( what happened to sundays?!?!?! oh well, keep me posted anyway! peace, julie

sorry...but sundays is space! and well some folks do healthy things like volleyball and bowling. then again, isn't dancing non-stop for 7 hours kinda healthy? it is i say to myself, it is it is!

Candy,
Hey, just saw the post. I would love to come. Let me know what the final day is that you decide on (Sundays best for me). Add me to the mailing list, if that's possible.
Thanks,
Jamie

jamiepoole@hotmail.com