Hey Rolf, would you happen to be hob-nobbing with any of the likes of "Dangerous Writers" out in Portland? Tom Spanbauer and Co. I used to fly up to Portland about 20 years ago to hang with them, do weekend intensives, and hole up with them in shared rentals for a couple weeks out at Haystack Beach. Those were the days. And I can credit …
Hey Rolf, would you happen to be hob-nobbing with any of the likes of "Dangerous Writers" out in Portland? Tom Spanbauer and Co. I used to fly up to Portland about 20 years ago to hang with them, do weekend intensives, and hole up with them in shared rentals for a couple weeks out at Haystack Beach. Those were the days. And I can credit Tom, Tim Redmond and the others who were doing it dangerously for the passion, crazed work ethic and devotion that I developed by hanging with them.
But my later life has routed abductions, if not by aliens, but via compelling calls to family life. So now I'm far from the joys of Portland, really missing the weather there, too.
I did enjoy a short lived stint after Portland, when I lived in San Francisco, and had an art studio across the bay in an industrial building not far from the East Bay bridge. I hosted a hand picked group to meet at my studio where we kept a rigorous schedule of doing critiques and readings. 2K word count per week plus read three other writers before the next meeting, and have critiques prepared for each piece read.
All that was long before Meet-Ups. Now I'm navigating a wide orbit, while hunkered down in Los Angeles. I really do miss the lovely folks who I befriended through Dangerous Writing, my Bay Area"indie" group, and later on, here in LA, through Meet-Ups.
So I think the next thing to do would be to go over what the shape would be of another critique group, that would fit your schedule/needs beyond the groups you already have, and other logistics like how to shape the group's activities, find who would be on board for a long form critique with a reading component, etc.
If you are interested in pursuing another critique format, or would like to know more about the projects I'm up to, feel free to email me at chec.dubya@gmail.com
I know about the "dangerous writers" but other than chatting one night to Lidya Yuknavitch at the Wordstock barhop, I have not hobnobbed with them... I wish! I know about having life abducted, my writing life was by marriage and a business, but now wife gone, and I'm easing myself out of the business, to pursue what I've always wanted to do... to write. And I might be interested in another more long-form critique group. I'll shoot you an email.
Hey Rolf, would you happen to be hob-nobbing with any of the likes of "Dangerous Writers" out in Portland? Tom Spanbauer and Co. I used to fly up to Portland about 20 years ago to hang with them, do weekend intensives, and hole up with them in shared rentals for a couple weeks out at Haystack Beach. Those were the days. And I can credit Tom, Tim Redmond and the others who were doing it dangerously for the passion, crazed work ethic and devotion that I developed by hanging with them.
But my later life has routed abductions, if not by aliens, but via compelling calls to family life. So now I'm far from the joys of Portland, really missing the weather there, too.
I did enjoy a short lived stint after Portland, when I lived in San Francisco, and had an art studio across the bay in an industrial building not far from the East Bay bridge. I hosted a hand picked group to meet at my studio where we kept a rigorous schedule of doing critiques and readings. 2K word count per week plus read three other writers before the next meeting, and have critiques prepared for each piece read.
All that was long before Meet-Ups. Now I'm navigating a wide orbit, while hunkered down in Los Angeles. I really do miss the lovely folks who I befriended through Dangerous Writing, my Bay Area"indie" group, and later on, here in LA, through Meet-Ups.
So I think the next thing to do would be to go over what the shape would be of another critique group, that would fit your schedule/needs beyond the groups you already have, and other logistics like how to shape the group's activities, find who would be on board for a long form critique with a reading component, etc.
If you are interested in pursuing another critique format, or would like to know more about the projects I'm up to, feel free to email me at chec.dubya@gmail.com
I know about the "dangerous writers" but other than chatting one night to Lidya Yuknavitch at the Wordstock barhop, I have not hobnobbed with them... I wish! I know about having life abducted, my writing life was by marriage and a business, but now wife gone, and I'm easing myself out of the business, to pursue what I've always wanted to do... to write. And I might be interested in another more long-form critique group. I'll shoot you an email.
And you should find an email from me now, too.