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“Telling What Happened: Diary-Writing” A Workshop at Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference
Cornelia will be leading a diary-writing workshop August 14th at the Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference.
“Looked at broadly,” wrote the late writer and New Yorker fiction editor William Maxwell, “what happened always has meaning, pattern, form, and authenticity.” Brenda Ueland, author of If You Want to Write, advised us to “write freely, recklessly.” In this workshop, diary-writing is valued as its own genre, but also as a writer’s cupboard, from which fiction, non-fiction, and poetry can be created. Diary-writing and diary-reading are also therapeutic, offering a form of Freud’s famous “talking cure.” Participants will examine and discuss diary excerpts from both ordinary and well-known people, and are invited to bring a paragraph from their own diaries. A bibliography of diarists will be provided. Find out about the conference at http://www.scs.northwestern.edu/summernu/programs/writers.cfm