A round robin with extraordinary partners … Loretta’s versatility in mood, tone, setting, and character; Tania’s delving deeply into her creative imagination and producing stories filled with color and life; Cathy’s skill for depicting complex relationships out of everday events and crisp dialogue; Randy’s poetic style, at once clean but suggesting deeper layers of complexity; Kate’s powerful poetry, filled with richly-detailed images; Justin’s intuitive feel for how ordinary details in a relationship suggest extraordinary events; Mary Ellen’s tapestry of compelling characters, revealed through action and dialogue; Damaris’s deft use of props to dramatize a tenuous mother/daughter relationship; and Theresa’s fully-grounded settings that stimulate all five senses.
Taken as a whole, the experience came full circle with all the poetry, vivid sensory details, character development, plot, and setting. This session, I had the sense that the bar had been raised, that I was working in the midst of skilled writers who knew how to tap into their imaginations and let it flow through their craft. It challenged me to think more deeply as I attempted to draw on my own craft and imagination – and it put me back in that place where the creative soul has a direct channel to the blank page.
I’m looking forward to working with you all – Loretta, Tania, Cathy, Randy, Justin, Mary Ellen, Damaris, Theresa, and all the others – again and again.
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