I'm fittin to come home here soon. Just wanted to make sure everybody's on the same page with what you're supposed to be doing so we can hit the ground running on Monday. A reminder, also, to put your completed folders in the wire basket on the table near my desk. I don't care which one--just pick one as a class and put them all in the same one.
Also wanted to express (as I did on the Nonfiction blog) the fact that I have a new appreciation for what you guys do. Bread Loaf is not unlike ASFA. Imagine instead that everybody is a creative writer and they're all twenty, thirty, even fifty years older than you are now. All the same things apply, though--not least mental exhaustion.
In eleven days or so we've done the work of half a semester. Today we had a workshop in which we discussed three 25-page stories. In 45 minutes, I'm going to a class on line-by-line editing. This morning there was a lecture on Shakespeare. Tomorrow is a class on plotting a novel, and we'll talk about three more stories in my workshop--only one of which I've read, much less commented on--on Friday morning. And, of course, there are readings, readings, and more readings.
ASFA-CW on steroids. But older.
In all, it's been pretty awesome, and I'm looking forward to getting back to apply some of my newfound perspective.
And don't forget to vote about the apples!
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