I'm taking a Fiction course through Gotham Writer's Workshop online classes. It's been a good kick in the pants and the homework has forced me to examine my writing in a healthy back-to-basics kind of way.
Maybe I'll post some bits of my homework later.
I'm also taking a Sketch Comedy course through Bad Dog Theatre. I took it more because the teacher (Rochelle Wilson) is an excellent teacher who observes well and critiques helpfully and fairly, rather than a burning desire to write sketch com, but despite my initial reservations ("why did i sign up for this? i have no time! etc."), I'm going to go ahead and see if I learn to write funny. Hm.
As for reading, the recent pile has been:
My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy by Andrea Askowitz
Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
and stories by ZZ Packer and Tobias Wolff
On the Amazon wishlist, I keep looking at this funny book, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog. It's about "diagramming sentences" - an old grammar-teaching tool I had never heard of.
It sounds like the kind of thing I would have loved learning at school.
I'm glad I've been writing more. I just wish I knew how to write and work and sleep at night.
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This is a good thing. Sometimes, it's the throwing yourself into it that's best. (This coming from someone who hasn't looked at their manuscript since December.)
The Bernadette book looks so interesting if only for the comment alone "Barking for Bernadette."
I wonder what the book has to say on the one-liner! Root root for you!
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