We met yesterday for three hours and it looks like it's going to be fun. The faciliatator is a graduate of the real Iowa Writer's Workshop and she's a red-headed, entertaining, knowledgeable and inspiriational woman of 65. Met ten new classmates - the eleventh is apparently stuck in Colombo and will be arriving sooner or later. We're a group of six men and six women, and I suspect I'm the oldest although not by all that much! We're reading a lot of contemporary short stories and novels and each session we'll be workshipping two student submissions. I have to hand in on Tues 31st Jan for workshopping on Thurs 2nd Feb. At this moment, I have no idea what I'm going to be writing but I think I will be guided by this:
"Look closely at what causes you pleasure. Look even more closely at what causes you pain." Collette.Off to clean house, hang laundry, make dinner - and maybe write!
