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Spring Womonwrites Materials

womonwrites — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:49:13 +0000

Spring 2012, May 23-27

(pre-conference beginning May 20;
Coordinators: Madison and Kelia)

Planners meeting: Saturday, February 4, 2012, in Atlanta
All planners are invited to attend, and anyone who has previously attended Womonwrites is welcome. Planners are posted at the Yahoo site.

The following conference materials will be posted by March 2012:

Download brochure(registration materials here)

Special dietary needs (we will send these forms to the cooks)

Download workshop information

Download anthology information (for previous attendees only)

Download “The Loop” (information from latest planning meeting)

Fall Womonwrites 2012

womonwrites — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:22:21 +0000

Fall Womonwrites, October 18-21, 2012

Coordinators: deJoly and Rand

Information: womonwrites@yahoo.com

Register online: TBD

Download registration materials: will be posted in August 2012
(If you have trouble downloading this, email womonwrites@yahoo.com and we will email the materials to you.)

Download flyer: will be posted in August 2012

Photo Prompt

womonwrites — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:36:50 +0000

Photo prompt: a photo is provided for you to write about. Use your imagination, and genre or medium.

New Prompt!

womonwrites — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:05:49 +0000

Courtesy of Rose:
“A new prompt: Women’s Music (or Art, or Poetry) – Recall an experience at a festival, an art exhibit, a poetry reading, etc., that moved you or changed your life in some way. Remember it vividly and write about the memory.”
Thanks Rose!

Prompts

womonwrites — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:39:36 +0000

Hey everybody! So, writing prompts. We know them, we love them. For us as the writers that many of us are, prompts can be the dumbbell repetitions, car battery cables or engine itself to our writing craft. Practice exercise, jump start, idea generator, technique learning exercise…prompts serve many, many purposes. So, considering this is a writing conference, there will be prompts offered here on the blog. Have a prompt to offer? A comment on a prompt offered? Want to share your writing? Well let us know! There’s a handy dandy comment box below for you, or you can write to me, Rocket-Blog-Monkey, at depazjr@gmail.com. That said, onto the prompt! Cheers!

From Rip the Page by Karen Benke (a book, by the by, bought by yours truly at Charis Books’ table at the Fall WW conf.)

“What Can You Write With” (Note: This is the first prompt in this book of prompts, and what got me to buy it, honestly. Simple enough of a prompt, but the focus here, as it is in creative writing in general, is to expand the boundaries of your mind. We, like monkeys and robots, as members and participants of this society, are programed to think and associate in very specific ways. You eat a banana, you drive a car, a dog barks, a sky is that space above our heads up high. This makes sense: it facilitates the proper functioning of society. However, this programming makes for pretty boring writing sometimes. As a bonus, expanding your mind like this also makes for pretty entertaining day to day. The sky can be the space between people, or you; love can be the outbreath of a sleeping child; an apple can be eternity; etc. Right?)

“Forget the usual suspects: pencils, pens, pain, chalk, Sharpie markers, purple crayons…What if you could write with anything today? What if you could wedge between the fingers of your left or right hand, a memory? Your infinite imagination? The power of creativity? A spinning planet? The state of forgiveness? A tree trunk, or a ray of sunlight? Well, guess what? In the realm of creative writing, you can. There are trillions of possibilities, and they keep on expanding into endless whirling patterns. What can you add to the things you can write with today?

[her example...]What I Write With

I can write with the tainted light of tattered forgiveness

I can write with the smallest stars of the almost-not-seen

I can write with the long sticky threads of sacred spider-webs

I can write with the spinning planets of darkness and danger

I can write with my unseen, dazzling trick-up-my-sleeve schemes

Here We Go!!!

womonwrites — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:13:39 +0000

The Womonwrites blog is getting a new look and then some. Now, aside from the pertinent information, we’ll have blog posts about subjects related to the conference, guest writers (hopefully), and much more, like links to conference goers’ websites and other websites that we all think important to share and have be part of the network.

This Womonwrites thing we’ve had going, it’s a family, ya’ll, and a community. And these days, the internets is one really kickin’ way to enrich community, especially when we all live far and wide. So lets make use of it, yes? Lets make this a forum, a community space. Lets share audio tracks, videos, writing promts, articles we find around the internets! Lets talk to each other here, comment, communicate. You want to see something done with this here blog? Let us know! This Johnny Rocket person (speaking) who has eagerly and with enthusiasm tackled the revamping of this here web presence, is multi talented and will do what can be done to make it happen (unless you want, say, a flock of ballerinas dressed as elephants dancing a cha cha across the screen. That’ll take a moment…)

Updates, new news and all related type blog posts will also be found here. Neat, yeah? So check back in! Subscribe, and it’ll show up in your email when we update, like elfin magic. That’s how we rock.