The Writerly Writer

Your Wolf spent the week at a writer's workshop. His FIRST writer's workshop.

Blerg.

Just kidding.

Sort of.

It's been an incredible learning experince. LOTS of new things, some great exercises and TRRRRRIFIC people. On the other hand, I feel like a 12 year old who realizes that the drawing they just finished doesn't look like the thing they were drawing.

I learned a new term that makes me shake my head:

'Writerly'

As in, his writing is very writerly. Over written, acutely aware of the wordiness. An author in love with the soundof his own voice.

Guilty as charged.

The problem is: I L.O.V.E. overwrought prose. See my ecstasy over Richard Hamilton's The Royal Road to Romance.

I should probably change the name of the site to 'The Writerly Wolf'.

It is another glorious morning here on the edge of the world and I am too little rested. I stayed up too late.

The cost is that I need more sleep.

While I steal thirty more minutes, here is a few thousand more words from the week.

Kathy


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