When: TBA
Cost: EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: $100 before December 22nd, 2014; $125 after December 22
Location: The Writers Room, 740 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Closest Subways: 6 to Astor or N/R to 8th Street/NYU
Limited to 15 students
Standing? Sitting? Lying down? On a train? In a crowded subway car? On scraps? Scrolls? In ink? With pencils? Crayons?
Morning? Noon? Or night?
Virginia Woolf and Balzac wrote standing up, Gertrude Stein liked writing in a parked car, James Joyce wrote lying on his stomach in bed, Dickens wrote in blue ink, Lewis Carroll preferred purple.
Kerouac wrote on a long scroll. Emily Dickinson wrote poems on the backs of recipes. Proust wrote during the night, and slept during the day. Woody Allen wrote jokes in his head on the subway.
The world’s most famous writers have writing habits unique to them. What works best for you?
In a one-day workshop, Anne Landsman will give you the tools to create and sustain a lifelong writing habit.
This class will cover:
- How to improve writing habits
- Writing habits of some of the history’s most infamous writers
- The material aspects of writing (ie. pens, paper, keyboards, etc.)
- How to find the writing habits that work best for you
- Note: Movement required in this course. Come ready to discuss your own personal writing practice issues.
Have a question about Master Class Room courses? Contact Courses@Ideasmyth.com.
Instructor: Anne Landsman is the author of the novels, The Rowing Lesson and The Devil’s Chimney.
The Rowing Lesson was awarded South Africa’s two top literary awards – the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and South Africa’s 2009 M-Net Literary Award for English fiction – and was shortlisted for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize.
Award nominations for The Devil’s Chimney include the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She has contributed essays to the anthologies Touch, An Uncertain Inheritance and The Honeymoon’s Over and has written for numerous publications including Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Guardian and The Telegraph.
She has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research and the University of Wyoming.
Dates & Time: TBA
Cost: TBA
Location: The Writers Room, 740 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Closest Subways: 6 to Astor or N/R to 8th Street/NYU
Limited to 15 students.
Have a question about Master Class Room courses? Contact Courses@Ideasmyth.com.