The creative adult is the child who survived… Ursula K. LeGuin Have you lost your creative spark? Or are you afraid you never had one? This self-paced workshop will help you find inspiration and learn to nurture it in the face of this cold, cruel world. We are born to create. Yet our culture does…
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In Praise of the Part-Time Writer
Now that the mad rush of everything Arcane and Alchemical is in place, it’s time to get back to work. My Udemy course needs some attention! The first students and reviews have come: so far I’m delighted! And the students seem pleased as well. The video above is the introductory lesson that goes over the…
How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job: The Course!
It was a workshop, a book and now — an online course at Udemy! Do you want to write? Or write more? Do you find it difficult to make time to write or to make use of the time when you find it? I can help! And for a limited time, the course is half…
‘We never took our foot off the gas…’
So that’s that. Maybe it’s just the way it’s hitting right now but ‘we never took our foot off the gas’ sounds like they went down burning money all the way, which is a good picture of what happened (Got a problem? Hire a consultant!). A colleague forwarded an email from the president of Russell…
The Teacher Learns
We all have our ways of coping with despair: one of mine is learning something new. You may not be too surprised to learnt that my lovely theremins have led me to the ‘rabbit hole’ that is synths in general and perhaps most dauntingly, modular synths in particular. I have become a knob twiddler. It’s…
Highsmith @ 100: Ripley
TOM RIPLEY: MASTER CRIMINAL? I know I have forgotten to keep up with posting the assignments for my students, but if you want to read along, here’s the intro text for this week: I’m always amazed at the back cover copy of different editions of this book. I’ve got this edition with me. It refers…
Highsmith @ 100: The Course
The fall semester begins today. My courses are still all online. I have changed the Crime Fiction course to be all Highsmith, because obviously being busy already means nothing. I’m resisting overloading them with biographical information at the start, instead planning to parcel it out as they make their own discoveries, though I gave them…
New Semester & Academic Mystery
I am back in New York and the new semester has begun: allow me a little time to acclimatise and then I will catch up on recent adventures (WorldCon of course, but also Brigit Riley and Leonora Carrington!) In related news, Fox Spirit Books has a new academic-themed cozy mystery, Hire Idiots. It may suit your…
Coming Up: Divine Write & We The Humanities
Beginning of the semester is always busy and this one is no exception. Things coming up where you might run into me — apart from as always the productive Write 4 a Day sessions — include the 2nd Sunday @ 2 reading in Troy, as well as two new events. Divine Write is a new…