Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~ Virginia Woolf
For this edition of the Remington Roundup, there are no priests (sorry), but there’s definitely poetry and places to hang with your writing and revising friends.
#Writing
Hey Word Warriors, last call for anyone wanting to participate in the upcoming Study Hall: #AmWriting this Sunday, April 8th, 3-5pm (CST). You can join online via Zoom or show up in person at the Studio in West Allis. We’ll read from work by a few favorite authors and write on four different prompts.
Read more about the meet-up HERE, and register by Saturday the 7th!
#Revising
If you’re like me, you have several rough pieces in notebooks, stashed on your hard drive, previously printed and paper clipped for future edits. If you’re me, some of those pieces have been sitting in the queue for way too long. Revisions can be daunting.
There are plenty of books to turn to and articles to consider when diving back into a draft, but here’s one you might bookmark: “Re-envision Revision with Sandra Scofield” where novelist Sarah McCoy interviews Schofield on Writer Unboxed.
“You have to take a big step back and get perspective. What is this I’m telling? What’s it about? And then describe what you have produced. . . . I really do mean you should describe the manuscript, in detail. Know it. Then you can start evaluating it.” ~ Sandra Scofield
She’s also teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival this July. Anyone up for a road trip?
#Poetry
April is National Poetry Month, and there are so many ways to celebrate:
- Study a few poetic forms.
- Get a poem delivered to your inbox daily.
- Watch & listen to Billy Collins read his poem “Lanyard.”
- Click and read Dan Beachy-Quick’s Craft Capsule on Poets & Writers, “Infinite Distance, or The Starry Archipelagoes,” where he explains the magic of the blank page:
“I then recognized…some true and awful thing about being a poet and a poet’s relationship, not to words or the beauties and meanings words offer, but to the blank space those words are written on, to the page: that one must learn to trust that its thin, near nothingness can bear the burden of a life.” ~ Dan Beachy-Quick on Poets & Writers
