Spring is here and as always it’s an inspiring time to be alive… to live, write, read, and listen! Sunday April 22nd, at 7 o’clock will be WiP’s 3rd installment. Details are listed below for submission instructions. Spread the word…
Here comes spring, in comes summer… where are you in your writing process?
Join WiP this sunday as these writer’s share their works in process with the world.
Noelle V. Dor—is an explorer of life and the literary arts. She writes, reads, blogs, edits, dabbles in graphic design, and facilitates conversations that illuminate personal truth. She aims to one day build a healing book garden (public library + reading room). www.noellevdor.com
Mikhail Voloshin—is a software engineer in Google’s advertising division, so all those banner ads that pop up all over the web while you’re trying to browse for story ideas are partly his fault. He grew up in Chicago, spent the dot-com boom living in Seattle, and has been in New York since 2008. He has no formal writing experience, but believes that a well-written story, like well-designed software or a well-crafted machine, is a matter of artistry and engineering.
Brady Evan Walker is a Louisiana native. He writes stories, screenplays, songs and all manner of word-related errata. He is currently at work on a novel; he blogs at theholeinthinair.com and basteonatruestory.com .
**WiP is gaining some structure as it moves along… I think it’s a great pairing to finish the night off with a writer reading from her/his published work, I believe this demonstrates trajectory.**
This month we have:
Nick Bryant’s—writing has recurrently focused on the plight of disadvantaged children in the United States, and he’s been published in numerous national journals, including the Journal of Professional Ethics, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and Journal of School Health. He is the co-author of America’s Children: Triumph of Tragedy, addressing the medical and developmental problems of lower socioeconomic children in America.
What About Process?
Last night at the restaurant, I heard from a gentlemen whose manuscript had just been rejected for the sixth time. I pat him on the shoulder and jovially said to him, “Oh, you mean you’re six times closer to it getting accepted?” His eyes immediately lit up, and a big grin came across his face. I reminded him of some kind of truth. I suggested he have the intention to continually shift his perspective to the process.
Process by leahshea.com
We are a culture, focused on the outcome. So many great accomplishments have we, it becomes hard not to always have such a perspective. Technology, medicine, even fashion—we are rich with materialities. If we want something, we can press a button and have it shipped to our door by the next day. If we want to become something, we can go to the internet and search for others who have already become that. We can go and find their accomplished works, and ingenuity. We see what they have created—the finished product.
Yet how many times have we also heard the story of the published writer, whose manuscripts rejected countless times before succeeding at publishing. Or, the scientist who makes a great new discovery… we focus on the discovery, and not the fact that it may have taken her a decade to produce the proof that merely validates reason to further study?
Take a look at the Process Perspective, it will expand your outlook, appreciation, and tenacity!
*Art work by Leah Shea. a 20×20 poster titled SOSO MUCH. Visit LeahShea.Com
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