...teaching
"I hope not so much to "teach" you how to write, as to offer some deeper ways of perceiving, reading, and contemplating literature and the work/life of writing. I believe that learning how to see and understand the work, to heed our intuitions and explore our reactions, to both what we read and what we write, are the long-lasting skills that will help you to ultimately become a better writer. Writing is a relationship with your creative self. Everyone has a creative self worth accessing and heeding and expressing. I enjoy helping writers tap into their deeper creative instincts and approach the art of writing from a personal place."
...a book to read
"I've just recently opened up Open City, by Teju Cole. It starts out in much the meandering tone of a W.G. Sebald novel, but the terrain its narrator walks in present-day New York City, and many of the stories and interactions he encounters are those stories of immigrants. This novel is utterly refreshing - it gives me hope for a subtler current entering the stream American contemporary lit. At least I hope."
...writing advice
"Listen to your intuition, discover your own rhythms. Respect the ebbs and flows of the endeavor. Think of writing as nurture, not accomplishment or competition or product. Find your way to making it matter on the level of soul."
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