About Listing: Side to Side, Top to Bottom (Tips and Techniques for Writing Every Day):
This is a 90-minute, focused workshop that deals with how to never be caught without something to write about. Many writers, from Dickens to Twain, and Hemingway on up to Stephen King, had (or have) a daily writing practice. And the writers who’ve written or talked about it seem to say that this discipline was their ‘great teacher’ when it comes to the craft. Nathan says, “I’ve written a poem a day for the last fourteen years, and I can say that nothing has taught me more about writing.” We will explore:
--Ways to generate material and organize it into “themes”
--Techniques for getting a daily writing practice up and running
--How to maintain it through “bite-sized” blocks of time and output
We will also dialogue about what techniques work, and do not work, for each of us as individual writers.
Seating is limited; please RSVP to events@paulinaspringsbooks.com to reserve your spot. $20 suggested donation per person. (Cash and check, Venmo, credit card accepted at the workshop). All donations go to the author.
About Nathan Brown:
Nathan Brown is an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma where he’s taught for over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013/14, and now travels fulltime performing readings, concerts, workshops and speaking on creativity, poetry, and songwriting.
Nathan has published 25 books. Most recent is his new collection of poems, In the Days of Our Endurance, the fifth in a series now known as the Pandemic Poems Project, a collection of commissioned poems that deal with the days of the pandemic, and a new travel memoir Just Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. His earlier book, Two Tables Over, won the Oklahoma Book Award. His most recent album of all original music is The Streets of San Miguel, recorded at Blue Rock Studios in Wimberley Texas (featuring Joel Guzman and Warren Hood).
He’s taught songwriting, memoir, poetry, and performance workshops from Tuscany and Ireland to the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon, the Taos Poetry Festival, the Woody Guthrie Festival, Laity Lodge, the Everwood Farmstead Foundation in Wisconsin, as well as for Blue Rock Artist Ranch near Austin, Texas. Nathan’s online live video series The Fire Pit Sessions—inspired by the Pandemic Poems Project—has had over 80,000 views.