How
to train your pen - story crafting and word bending for novices
a
Creative Writing Grundtvig Workshop
imagined to take place in Lisbon between the 9th and 17th of November this year.
a
Creative Writing Grundtvig Workshop
imagined to take place in Lisbon between the 9th and 17th of November this year.
To
narrate is to create, for living is just being lived
(Narrar é criar, pois viver é apenas ser
vivido)
Fernando Pessoa
We believe this
is true. We also think that imagination (the creative one) is the most
important tool to do so. Than again, to invoke the power of imagination is just a phrase substituting a whole
world that needs to be explained. Hope you agree that nobody simply sits down at
a desk, "invokes the power of imagination" and writes. Our curiosity
is what goes on before and behind all that jazz, and what makes all the magic
happen. We despise tricks and techniques that "improve your writing
skills" so that you can produce seducing stories that serve for the mere
amusement of mases.
We don't promise secrets that will give birth to a future
bestselling author (except you can guarantee us a percentage). Our sincere
interest is elsewhere. We crave to understand the "creative"
processes behind the act of writing so that we learn how to use them in a
proper way in order to create, not entertain or make a living out of it.
There are many questions that intrigue us. Why do we write, why
read, where does inspiration come from, how is someone creative and others not?
Then, what to read so that we can write in this or that way, what to write
about and when and for whom? How to write?
If you think in
a similar manner, and you are puzzled with many (or more) questions like we
are, then, we invite you to come to Lisbon for some days and together we
explore all that stuff. Note that we don't have all answers. We hope that you
can help, so we will encourage that everyone investigates in his or hers own
depths. How good you write is up to you - where to search for all that goodness
- we can assist.
Remember that "the train
slows down", as Pessoa will notice, "it's the Cais do Sodré. I
arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion". So don't expect miracles.
Expect to leave with nothing but Lisbon in your heart. And a load of questions
that (hopefully) will bring about to inspire creative outcomes that will prove
you are a person, not a typing machine.
Still not completely
discouraged? If you are really interested and fancy a more formal description,
check the link below if you. There you can find the application as well.
You have time to read all this and to submit the application
until 20th of September. We will make the selection based mostly on person's
motivations behind their will to participate.
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