February 2, 2006

Summer course

I'm teaching a five-day fiction workshop July 16 - 21 in Victoria. The Victoria School of Writing website hasn't been updated yet, but here's a sneak preview. This year's instructors include Maria Coffey, Gary Geddes, John Lent, Susan Musgrave, Billeh Nickerson, and Kevin Patterson. When it comes to writing, I believe in mentored bumbling more than instruction-critique, hence my zen approach. Here's the official spiel:

The Writing Samurai

We like to worry as we write, doublethinking ourselves into tight little creative corners: Is this good? Will the ending work? Will I ever get to the end? It's strangely counterintuitive, but by forgetting about "quality" and finished product, we find what we're really after. Actual ideas. And sentences, good ones, like white-hot vapour trails of the imagination. We'll explore writing as a practice of the "immovable mind," a two-stage odyssey involving freewheeling creativity first, editorial objectivity second. The nuts and bolts of fiction-writing (storytelling principles, style vs. voice) alongside creative musclebuilding (effective writing habits, conquering mental resistance) in a friendly workshop environment.

I'm not sure how much it costs, but I'm sure it's embedded somewhere in program info.

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