A prompt and some readings on practice
A little peek at week one of Care for Writers: The Workshop
Over the past six weeks, I’ve had the total pleasure of guiding two cohorts of writers in my Care for Writers workshop class. The writers in the classes are dedicated, thoughtful, supportive, and they are all doing important, urgent creative work. Over many weeks, we’ve discussed not only artistic practices, but the nitty gritty of how to make the work happen within busy lives. So much of this requires bending one’s life around a ruthless commitment to art, and disabusing ourselves of all the internal mechanisms and voices we’ve absorbed from the culture that says art and writing are superfluous to human experience, rather than the very foundation of it.
A prompt and a few offerings
Below is a writing prompt I gave to these classes in our first week together when we worked on articulating why we write at all, along with a few readings and other offerings I built into the syllabus. If you want access to writing prompts like these, our Reading Group, author salons, and more, upgrade your subscription. Paid subscribers make literally everything you read here possible.
