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Quotables on Story & an Online Course to take you there.

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”  ~ Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

man with pen and paper and working on laptopYou’ve got a story. You’ve got that urge to write. But where do you begin?

Join me online from November 4th-December 15th for Principles & Prompts, where we’ll discuss creativity and story and put pen to paper every week ($90 for new students; $80 for returning students).

This isn’t just a course for beginners, though. Principles & Prompts is a low-stakes course for writers looking to get back into the swing of regular practice, who are searching for community, who enjoy reading the works of others and finding inspiration in the discussions that follow. It’s one of my favorite courses to teach!

Read more about the course and SIGN UP HERE–make some light!
Seats are limited and registration closes on November 1st!

“We tell our stories in order to live.” ~ Joan Didion

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Remington Roundup: The #Classics, #Art, & #Writing

IMG_0702Clickety-clack, copy and paste.

Here’s your February round up of articles and essays on lessons from a classic, making art until the end, and why I carry a stack of paper & pens in my backpack every day.

#Classics

28 Lessons We’ve Learned from Pride and Prejudice on Bluestocking Salon, which mentions Colin Firth three times. But that’s not the (real) reason I love this post.

12592293_10208681678268381_5700226019705664968_n“2. Be persistent in the face of rejection.
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19. “Obstinate, headstrong girl!” really is a compliment.
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21. When it comes to a man’s library, size matters.”

#Art

Elizabeth Gilbert’s post on David Bowie’s death, which shares the link to his music video, “Lazarus.” I didn’t grow up a die-hard Bowie fan (hey, don’t hate me…only because I was very religious when I was young), but I certainly appreciate his art and what Gilbert says about him and his work.

“[He spent] his final months dying doing what he’d done his whole life–making outrageously original, beautiful, complicated art. . . . This is what it means to be a great artist.”

As a bonus, read Richard Z. Santos’ “A Partial List” about David Bowie on Barrelhouse Magazine.

#Writing

On Keeping a (Writing) Notebook (or Three) by Randon Billings Noble in Brevity Magazine. Noble opens her essay with a few quotes from Joan Didion’s “On Keeping a Notebook,” and that could be enough. But in the end Noble herself explains why she (and I) have more than one notebook within reach on any given day.

12390869_10208342498749105_771019349669136394_n“there’s a difference between a diary and a journal…in a diary you record each day’s events and in a journal you write whatever you want about your day whenever you want to write about it. . . . my writing notebooks keep me writing – through rejection, triumph, inspiration, and disenchantment…on the crests and in the troughs; at home and away….”

What have you bookmarked lately?