On Saturday, May 3, 19 Ozarks Writing Project Fellows met for the first time in preparation for the Summer Invitational Institute. It was a great day. In addition to the Fellows, we had some guests. Michael Frizell and Laura Burdette (TCs '08) attended. Kim Piddington, 1998 Teacher-Consultant of the UC-Irvine Writing Project, presented a demonstration on historical fiction. Hopefully, with Kim's permission, we'll get a copy of her demo on our website (see Teacher--Demonstrations).
We will be reading several books this summer, but for now, the Fellows received Breakthroughs and The Right to Write. In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron writes a short essay that ends with an "Initiation Tool." We attempted one of the initiations on Saturday. Casey passed out to each of us five postcards. We wrote one postcard to ourselves, and the other four we wrote to people we may not keep in touch with. This book will help us to focus on our writing and will help us "prime our writing pump."
Our Institute begins June 16 and ends July 11. I'll be emailing everyone, but we will not meet on Thursday, July 3, because of the holiday. (That's why we are meeting until Friday the 11th.)
Soon the '08 Fellows will be posting demo ideas and writing to the blog, so feel free to comment.
Thanks again for a great orientation. I'm looking forward to this summer!
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