Final spots for Spencer Reece this Wednesday, new Daily Sprint class, and more The Write Salon News 📝
Join us in May to cultivate new writing habits and advance your writing projects!
What inspires you to write? Where do you get your ideas? This is one of the most common questions authors get from readers and many find it hard to answer.
“Look for glimmers” Colorado-based writer and teacher Pam Houston advises. What are glimmers? Houston describes looking for glimmers as developing a practice of noticing what your attention gravitates towards and writing it down. Maybe you don’t know why you notice it. Maybe it never makes it into a story. Maybe it will open your imagination to a whole world of new ideas. But when you cultivate the habit of noticing, you’re making space for inspiration to enter your life. To treat what you notice as having value for your writing.
“Lines come to me when I travel” Spencer Reece says, describing how he wrote “Taize,” a poem in his forthcoming book Acts after a visit in Spain. Ask Spencer more about his writing process and hear him read new poems this coming Wednesday, April 10th, 7:45 pm in his beloved Madrid.
We are almost sold out for this event. Grab one of the last seats to join the conversation and toast Spencer’s new book 🥂📖
✨ New Offering ✨ Start Your Daily Writing Habit: A 15-Day Sprint
Do you have unfinished writing projects but struggle to meet your writing goals when life gets busy? Do you collect your “glimmers” and brainstorm story ideas but wonder if anyone will want to read what you write? In our new class, Start Your Daily Writing Habit: A 15-Day Sprint, The Write Salon’s Willow Mata will lead you in (re)starting your daily writing habit in community with other writers. As author James Clear writes in his popular book Atomic Habits, acquiring a new habit is about consistent daily efforts along with adopting an identity. This completely asynchronous daily writing sprint gives you the structure for both: You’ll generate new material through timed, daily writes in any genre; plus get daily feedback from your partners in a community of writers. The time commitment is 25-30 minutes per day including feedback. Join us starting May 11th!
💫 Spots remaining 💫 Write the body with Mathangi Subramanian
How often do your writing ideas, or “glimmers,” involve your senses? Likely often. Whether it’s the sounds of your neighborhood late at night, the sweaty smell of bodies in a bus, or the feel of rain on your neck in a sudden storm, we all experience life through our senses. As novelist and memoirist Lidia Yuknavitch notes, our bodies are “a physical place where meanings are endlessly generated and negated.” Accessing our senses and bringing them into our writing is vital to bring our stories alive for our readers. Come practice this on May 18th with award-winning author Mathangi Subramanian. In the one-hour online workshop we will practice bringing body awareness into our writing in new ways. The workshop is appropriate for all genres.
What are you noticing these days? How are you making it a part of your writing? We look forward to hearing about it in one of our upcoming events or classes!
Happy reading and writing,
Giedre, Vanesa and Willow