October 2022 Treasure Hunt
This month is all about writing. There are so many writing workshops out there right now, so ‘tis the season. These are just my favorites:
October 7-9, 2022: The Omega Institute in New York is offering an in-person and online weekend writing workshop led by Cheryl Strayed. For more information and to register for the in person workshop, click here. For more information and to register for the live-stream workshop, click here. You’re in for a real treat if you’ve never heard her speak about writing. I attended the Kripalu Center’s online version of The Story You Have to Tell earlier this year and was changed. You’re in for a real treat if you’ve never heard her speak about writing.
October 20-22, 2022: The annual Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop at the University of Dayton is offered in-person and online again this year.
They have a Pitchalapooza too, where you can pitch a 1-minute book proposal to agents and publishers.
Keynotes include:
W Bruce Cameron
Adriana Trigiani
Cathy Guisewite
Laraine Neman
and more!
October 27-29, 2022: The Mississippi University for Women’s Welty Symposium’s theme this year is “Coming to the end of the road... the jumping-off place". The symposium is on campus and online.
October 29-30, 2022: Heal and Create Writer Retreat offered at the College of Marin and online is designed to spark your creative nature and unblock creative blocks. Anne Lamott, SARK, Julia Cameron, Lauren Sapala, and more!
I have just now learned about the newly-released Centennial edition of Emily Post's Etiquette, written by her great-great-grandchildren. It's marketed as "up-to-date", so I imagine it's more lax? Like don't go barefoot on the plane as opposed to don't show your ankles on the train?
Something I’ve loved before and that are offered on-demand are Mike Dooley’s TUT (The Universe) Love Your Life in 30 Days and 21-Day Writing Journey workshops.
“I don’t know what really makes a great musical or not”, said composer Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. “In the end you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.”
Ray Bradbury’s Greatest Writing Advice: “I’ve had a sign over my typewriter for over 25 years now: Don’t think!”
From the Gospel of Thomas: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
Franz Kafka: “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
From Erma: “When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
My Christmas present feeling for this month was setting an alert for houses with land in places with Fall weather. And KNOWing that this time next year, I won’t be in Arizona. And I had one more: The weekend I took to relaunch my Post Single Motherhood website (and the help I received from Squarespace Support.