A New AudioSeminar on Fiction Writing Just Released!

Fiction Writing, The Passionate Journey, an AudioSeminar: Sheri McConnell, President of the National Associaton of Women Writers, interviews Emily Hanlon

In this one hour audioseminar you will learn:

• How Fiction Writing and Passion Combine to Create a Journey
• A Number of Ways to Access Your Creativity
• What to Do When Creativity Dries Up
• Many Exercises to Jump Start the Writing Process
• What the 5 Ingredients of the Scene are in Fiction Writing
• How to Identify Your Inner Critic and Manage Her/Him
• How to Identify Your Inner Writer
• The Definition of true Creative Success
  

Listen to the audioseminar, read the transcript
and receive Emily Hanlon's Writing Prompts E-Book as a bonus offering!

The one hour audioseminar, the transcript and the Writing Prompt E-book, special introductory price: only $14.95 for all three!

To order and explore, go to http://www.thefictionwritersjourney.com/NAWW_Fiction_Writing1.htm

Fascinating Interview with Bruce Springsteen

I recently heard part II of an interview with Bruce Springsteen on NPR.
He has a fascinating relationship to his own creativity, which he articulates
wonderfully. I highly recommmend this interview, which you can hear if you
go to:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4618064

I have not heard Part One of the Interview, (which is the link above) but hope
to soon. I feel certain it is as interesting as Part II, which was a gem.

Enjoy!

WomanWords Presents: We Are Women Who Write

WomanWords presents:

the 100th WRITING SESSION: -We Are Women Who Write-
a celebration & a double writing session guaranteed to tickle your Muse into action!

with Marilyn Zembo Day and Judith Prest
Saturday, June 4, 2004 - 10 am to 4 pm
at Still Point Interfaith Retreat Center, Stillwater, NY


We are Women of Words,
Wonderful, wise, soulful words.
Happy, sad, silly words.
Vibrant, inspirational, sacred words.
Words we need to share with each other.
Words to write, words to speak among ourselves,
that we may ultimately enrich our Universe.


If you're a woman writer (or wannabe writer or used-to-be writer) who has never experienced a WomanWords session, you’ll want to attend this daylong workshop.

After eight years of regular workshops and a myriad of special events, WomanWords founder Marilyn Day has decided to end the “regular” workshops in favor of a special events format (& maintaining the WW website)-- but it will be a Grand Finale, with a 100th WomanWords Session/Workshop (yes-- this is #100!) that’s a “double” (both morning and afternoon writing exercises) and a celebration.

As always, we will re-kindle our Creative Fire, put pens to paper—conjure up images, ideas, emotions awaiting self-discovery. If your Creative Spirit needs nurturing, join the supportive web of WomanWords! We write. We share. We encourage. We honor our Muse.


And as if that weren’t enough-- we will party at lunch time-- honoring 8 years, 100 sessions, an amazing number of special events, all attended by women who are finding their Voices, telling their stories, connecting with each other.

Join us. You owe it to your Creative Self.

COST: $40 (some scholarships available)

BRING: - your journal (or paper)
- writing instrument (pen, pencil, etc.)
- something for the buffet (see registration form)

PLEASE REGISTER BY 5/28/05.

Call Marilyn Day at 518-869-1706 or e-mail at
wmnwords@nycap.rr.com with questions.

A Poem on the Power of Risk!

Passion and being a risk-taker are two of the most powerful
aspect of creativity. I found this poem inspirational.


TIGERS

What are we now but voices
who promise each other
a life neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting can't make it so.
We hang froma vine
at the cliff's edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.

-Eliza Griswold

The New Yorker
April 25, 2005

A TeleSeminar, Thursday, April 21

How to Use Writing to Journey Inward,
Face Your Inner Critic and Find Your Strengths

Dr. Doris Jeanette Interviews Emily Hanlon

Thursday, April 21, 7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 pm Pacific Time

Live Self-Help Teleseminar with International Phone Bridge

For details and to explore the Teleseminar, go to: http://www.thefictionwritersjourney.com/Teleseminar.htm

Re-Discovering the Feminine Face of God, A workshop

Judy Clough and Marilyn Day will lead a workshop at Still Point Interfaith Retreat Center in Stillwater, NY on Saturday, April 30, 2005, from 10 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. entitled Re-Discovering the Feminine Face of God: a workshop for women.


In Western culture, we are accustomed to references to the Divine being couched in the masculine gender. And yet there have been—and are—many cultures in which God is Goddess. Learn about some of these powerful feminine images and how they can empower you. Writing, ritual and expressive arts included as tools for a nurturing day.

Sit in a circle of women.
Feel the feminine energy.
Connect with WomanSpirit through goddess images and archetypal stories.
Begin to trust that these are your very own stories.
Let these insights empower you.
Let new understanding enhance your creativity and your life.

Cost is $65 (all to benefit Still Point). Some scholarships are available (you need only ask).
Bring a lunch.
Register by 4/23/05. Call Marilyn at 518-869-1706 with any questions or e-mail her at: wmnwords@nycap.rr.com

Still Point's phone number is 518-587-4967, if you need directions or wish to call for any other purpose. For those who are not familiar with Still Point, it is a small, non-profit interfaith retreat center just 2.2 miles from Saratoga Lake-- check out their website at www.stillpointretreatcenter.com for info about the place and its programs. Welcoming House, the conference building where workshops are held, is awesome with its mandala window looking out onto nature.

Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards

Many genres and prizes.
For information and details go to:

http://www.writersdigest.com/specialoffers.asp?DMself040105

East Coker
By T.S. Eliot:

I said to my soul, be still,
and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing;
there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope
are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought;
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness
the dancing.