Happy and forward-looking

I am attending the Lynda Barry workshop Writing the Unthinkable this weekend with dear Sonali.  I am very excited as I learned so much the last time I enrolled in the class.  Lynda is a great teacher.  This class looks to have about double the number of students as the class I took a little over a year ago.

Since attending last year, I have become acquainted with Pat Schneider's Amherst Writers and Artists methodology, and I am meditating on her Five Essential Affirmations:

• Everyone has a strong, unique voice.
• Everyone is born with creative genius.
• Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level.
• The teaching of craft can be done without damage to a writer's original voice or artistic self-esteem.
• A writer is someone who writes.

Let's all write and write and write in 2008.