From Gemini Ink

From Gemini Ink:

Bárbara Renaud González is conducting a veryinteresting class at Gemini Ink in November. You can find more information, here:
http://geminiink.org/doings/writing-on-the-rollercoaster

Here are the essentials:

Level: All

Instructor: Bárbara Renaud González
So you want to write a novel. You know you have a great book insideyou. You see yourself in front of a roomful of people reading yourunforgettable, scintillating story. Maybe Oprah will love your book. Anything is possible when you write a novel! But what does it really take? How do you keep a marathoner’s pace through jobs, marriages,divorces, hurricanes, guilt, and people dying on you? In this class, I will share how I held on during my ten-year rollercoaster ride, and how to let go and just enjoy the ride. There will be an in-class writing exercise.

Date: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9am – 4pm (break included)

Limit: 12 Participants

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Nov. 4

Required Materials: Students will be asked to submit a 10-pagemanuscript in advance for peer critique

Required Reading: This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley,Little, Brown & Co., 2009

Suggested Readings: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez;
The Creative Fire, CD, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Theatre of the Imagination, CD, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Writing Alone & With Others by Pat Schneider

CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts

Fee: $72Discounted Fee: $65

Also, INKstravaganza will be on Sept. 24. More info here:
http://geminiink.org/inkstravaganza
It's our major fundraising gala and we'll be honoring literary powercouple, poet Lee Robinson and memoirist Jerry Winakur.