(To Galen) re Presentations / Writing

[Maura Santangelo]

Galen,

find a writer's group near you or create one if one does not yet exist.
  You are right it helps to have other writers critique your work.  Or
take a writing workshop to start.  Just learning myself.

Maura

On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Galen Wilkerson wrote:

> Hi Sue and Sally,
>
> Thanks for the information.  Yeah, my yahoo account gets filled with
> spam
> every day, so it's useless.
>
> One thing that helps me a lot is to have one or two people to bounce my
> writing off of.  I write a ton and think about it when I'm sending
> emails
> or talking to people and actually telling them things.  When I just
> sit and
> stare at my belly-button, it is not nearly as interesting or
> enjoyable.  If
> I had a few people to send my writing to, it would really help,
> probably
> more than methodology, etc. (although this helps too)  Basically,
> actually
> sending people things and having them actually respond and say "that's
> interesting", or "that's not" is probably the best litmus test for me.
> Then again, I haven't been a successful/professional writer or
> presenter
> (yet :), but I still suspect that interaction is the most help.
>
> I've also seen some books that look good on amazon's webpage about
> travel
> writing. (By the way, just reading: "Best American Travel Writing" -
> one is
> put out every year, the year I am reading is edited by Bill Bryson,
> pretty
> interesting.)
>
> Galen
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:05:13 -0500, Sue Kenney <sue.kenneyaSYMPATICO.CA>
> wrote:
>
>> To Sally, Galen and the other storytellers in the group,
>>
>> Here is a link to a great web site for all levels of storytellers.
>> Doug
> Lipman
>> offers a monthly newletter, workshops and coaching.
>>
>> http://storydynamics.com
>>
>> Happy telling,
>> Sue
>>
>> Floral Park, Ontario
>> http://www.suekenney.ca
>>
>> Sally Haden wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Galen
>>> I am sure there must be other people on this list who can offer
>>> support
> for
>>> doing presentations.  I don't have any direct experience myself of
>>> Camino
>>> presentations but I do know that people like, as Sue said, to get
>>> close
> to
>>> the actual feel/reality of something like your pilgrimage.  It sounds
> good,
>>> like Sue said, to take your boots, stick, etc., and so to tell them
>>> your
>>> personal stories... name names...etc!  There's enough artificial
>>> stuff
> on TV
>>> to fill anyone's appetite for academic travel.
>>>
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