Writing Wordshop
Writing Wordshop
Sundays in MAY from 11-1 Eastern Time
A Special 4-week Online Workshop Limited to Eight Students
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Week 1 – What’s the job?
- Writing is presenting, selling, explaining, persuading, arguing, thinking. Thinking through what you want your piece of writing to do, and who are you talking to, will help clarify where to start.
- Also, a subsidiary question: where’s this writing in relation to your clay work?
- Discussion of what each person plans to work on
Week 2 - First Draft
-Warmup writing exercise
- Hearing vs reading
- Each person reads the draft of what they are working on. Feedback from the group focusing on what is striking, memorable, fresh.
Week 3 – Second Draft
- Reading and hearing
- Writer determines what they want input on, what questions they have for the reader, e.g. reaction to specific parts, too much/not enough detail or description, response to the voice
Week 4 – Being Readers
- Before we meet, each person sends out a piece of writing by someone else that they especially like or have responded to. (Max. 3 pages.) Everyone will have read everything before we meet and come prepared to look carefully at and pick apart the pieces as to how and why they “work.”
Each participant will also get a close one-on-one reading of their piece by me, with comments, suggestions, etc.
Mary Barringer received a BA in art from Bennington College, apprenticed with Michael Frimkess, and has been a studio artist since 1973, making both sculpture and functional pottery. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she has taught widely at universities, art schools, and craft centers including Ohio University, Hartford Art School, and Anderson Ranch. She has written and lectured on the history of ceramics, and from 2004 until 2014 she served as editor of The Studio Potter journal. Since stepping down from that role, she has done freelance editing and writing along with her studio work. She lives and works in western Massachusetts.