This past week I took a professional fundraising class. It was nice to be back in a professional setting. The teacher had once consulted for the organization I used to work for so I felt better about answering questions and telling the class stories from the organization even though they are all old now.
It can be any kind of story you want.
This was a novel writing workshop.
Susie: do you have an idea in mind for a novel?
I’ve done some memoir writing workshops, which I found hard but fun.
I’ve got three or four novels in mind.
Boy Susie, I have a lifetime of stories to tell, but I just don’t want to embarass myself in this public forum. Maybe I could use a pseudonym for the byline?
I could start with the difficulty a young black boy faced in the 50’s attending a northern Catholic school, but folks would have a hard time believing that shit.
Another interesting topic could be the same black kid, after having graduated Catholic school attending a northwestern Michigan State college and being selected to write on the school newspaper—as the chief sports columnist, no less—at a school whose student body consisted of 20,000 students, and only 120 registered black students. Can you say “institutional rascism at it’s best?”
Right here, in public?
What kind of writing is the workshop about?
This past week I took a professional fundraising class. It was nice to be back in a professional setting. The teacher had once consulted for the organization I used to work for so I felt better about answering questions and telling the class stories from the organization even though they are all old now.
It can be any kind of story you want.
This was a novel writing workshop.
Susie: do you have an idea in mind for a novel?
I’ve done some memoir writing workshops, which I found hard but fun.
I’ve got three or four novels in mind.
Boy Susie, I have a lifetime of stories to tell, but I just don’t want to embarass myself in this public forum. Maybe I could use a pseudonym for the byline?
I could start with the difficulty a young black boy faced in the 50’s attending a northern Catholic school, but folks would have a hard time believing that shit.
Another interesting topic could be the same black kid, after having graduated Catholic school attending a northwestern Michigan State college and being selected to write on the school newspaper—as the chief sports columnist, no less—at a school whose student body consisted of 20,000 students, and only 120 registered black students. Can you say “institutional rascism at it’s best?”