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Opening the Circle
Nancy Slonim Aronie's Online Writing Workshop
Nancy Slonim Aronie's Online Writing Workshop
Here’s a place to post (via comments) information about conferences and workshops or share inspirational quotes or resources.
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January 28, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Gerry & Nancy
This is for Cissie from Gerry & Nancy…”a trap set early to catch sensitive girls from speaking up” was great…”i’d rather be murdered than raped” shows one of the things insensitive girls can say…”an egg boiled too long…yoke/yolk of soul” is powerful…”birth/bio/first genetic tummy mummy” says a lot about the alienation of adoptive parents. Loved the alliteration of “glitter/gingerbread cookies, girly dress-up”…and the devastating ambivalence of “crawl into my bone marrow and eat what you need.” Brilliant and chilling and universal. “I am happy to exercise another muscle besides my patience…” We loved “I am no understudy,” &c.
January 28, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Gerry & Nancy
this is for elizabeth
hysterical!!!!!!! xo n
January 28, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Gerry & Nancy
as red as gala apples niceblank curls chunky cheeks great sound gerber cereal nie detail round cheeks round hips perfect! daddy x 3 mommy x 3nice caramel color charcoal colored compact nice daddy has gone deaf inice present tense…
her eyes are loving someone else…ooh…tells her she’s toomuch of anything … i foundmyself crying here….sometimes….seed of doubt she will…. brilliant! the minefield of being ….sooo amazing!
January 28, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Gerry & Nancy
as red as gala apples nice curls care chunky cheeks great sound gerber cereal nie detail round cheeks round hips perfect! daddy x 3 mommy x 3nice caramel color charcoal colored compact nice daddy has gone deaf inice present tense…
her eyes are loving someone else…ooh…tells her she’s toomuch of anything … i foundmyself crying here….sometimes….seed of doubt she will…. brilliant! the minefield of being ….sooo amazing!
January 28, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Gerry & Nancy
Patricia it’s beautiful and harrowing how general goodwill falls when things become specific…”his sick friend, his rent, his feelings of un-self worthiness” is a deadly threesome. I–this is Gerry speaking–recognize the Catholic vocabulary: “litany,” “venial,” and the associated guilt. “Pulling back on the gas pedal” ain’t easy, and as for “just listening,” not trying to fix things, even harder. But getting it down on paper is defininitely a first step!
February 5, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Rajka Ungerer
Has there ever been such overwhelmingly fluent, profound, sharp and kind duo As Nancy and Gerry? I am weating for duo to do a duet for us. Everything is possible if you do it from the heart. Bravissimo!
February 19, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Mary Agnes
A writing contest for us–our type of cost (free)–our type of length (350 words), our type of topic: (Lessons learned from …. well, see below.)
The contest:
In 350 words or less, tell us a story—fact or fiction—of lessons learned from getting dumped, being rejected, having a broken heart, or any other (likely embarrassing) tale of woe in the world of love.
It is sponsored by the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge but they don’t say you have to be local. Due Wed. Feb. 27. Here’s their website:
http://www.harvard.com/events/thingsivelearned.html
March 4, 2008 at 6:24 pm
David V
^^^^^ Oops. I read things too little too late. Forgot this page was here. Hope you won Mary.
April 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Mary Agnes
For those of us who miss the READING out loud on the radio of the pieces we write for this blog (and I know that I do) here’s an on-line literary magazine where you can read your stories outloud. It’s been podcasting for more than two years. According to Duotrope (another great resource for writers) this literary magazine accepts almost 12% of the submissions it gets. If anyone here ever has any of their stories published online on this site, let us know so we can hear your gloroius voices!
http://www.boundoff.com/
May 31, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Mary Agnes
Here’s a mini-essay writing contest by MORE MAGAZINE (only open to females over 40).
You have to write in 100 words or less why you are “over-40 and fabulous.” You don’t have to get a subscription to enter, though the box pops up. The prize is relatively small, only worth about $7,000, but being published in MORE would be nice.
Enter by June 30.
http://www.more.com/lifestyle/forums/mores-10th-anniversary-contest/
June 8, 2008 at 11:48 am
Mary Agnes
Another great contest for us, writing an essay on “What was the most important day of your life?” The prize is $3,000 and publication in Real Simple magazine. So many people here have written essays that could fit this topic. The maximum length is 1500 words and the deadline is 9/9/2008.
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/content/0,21770,1735955,00.html
July 27, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Mary Goethals
This attendee from week of 7/21/08 is just trying to find out if this is how to navigate on this blog as she is a virgin blogger. So is this right??? LMK
Love to all from last week,
Mary
August 10, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Rajka
Beth,
your piece is very thoughtfull and very provocative. I would like to know who he/she is and what relatiojship you have.
Father and doughter
the best friend
lover (this would be my guess: you do not get toghether often but when you do it is beatiful/
Sorry this is not really a critique, but it certainly tickled my imagination.
There are some beautiful images and your writing is fluent. How about doing a follow-up story?
October 15, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Terrie
Grace – It was nice to meet another one of the WFTH writers face to face this week at the Open Center. I wanted to say hello, but had to get to the airport immediately. I read on the writer descriptions that you have just lost your father to cancer.
I am so sorry.
November 29, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Rajka Ungerer
Dear Sissy,
what a convincing and powerul story about motherhood. I can see your precosious little girl (did she have a model to go by? — sorry, none of my bussines). It is extraordinary yet believavable that a 3 year old has such strong ego that mother has to succomb to it? I got a kick out of her questioning when willl she be (grown up?) able to wear high heels.
The last sentence is a terrific closing of your story!
Both profoundly existential and funny! Serios theme with lighthearted presentation. Bravo! Well done!
I enjoyed reading .itCongratulations
December 8, 2008 at 2:03 am
Anonymous
Rajka,
I NEVER knew before being a mother how much of a child’s personality comes with them. I still believe conditioning and society play strong roles in developing our children as does the tv. and the culture. But, to realize also, how many times I would have been forcing my feminist will on my daughter and dismissing her desires for fantasy and imaginative play in the realm of pricesses and dress up and things that were not what I had planned or expected or could even relate to. She didn’t have others at daycare she was copying of a mother with a purse collection – that’s what killed me – that those were her wants. I’m glad you got the humor as well. I haven’t gone down without a fight on some issues but I sure am humbled and surprised by parenting!
cissy