Hi folks,
Sorry I haven't posted in a few days, but I started teaching a new class for Phoenix College and finished up a class for Writer's Digest in the past week, and I've been covered up with that along with work for private clients I work with on their novels.
I'm preparing a post to hopefully ascertain the level of interest in a workshop/retreat I'm planning on having next summer. I need to make sure I have top guest presenters available for it as well as top agents, but as soon as I get the details sorted out, I'll post information here on it.
Thanks for being patient!
Blue skies,
Les
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- Les Edgerton
- Hi! Welcome to my blog. To introduce myself, I'm a full-time writer with eighteen books in print and I teach creative writing on the university level, through private coaching of writers, and on various on-line venues. I write in a variety of forms: novels, short stories, nonfiction books, screenplays and the subjects I choose to write about are just as varied, including sports, literary fiction, thrillers, black comedy and the craft of writing. I'm married to Mary and we have a son, Mike. I have two daughters--Britney and Sienna--from a previous marriage. I immigrated to Ft. Wayne, IN from the U.S.A. and it's where I still live today. Doing my best to learn the language and adjust to the culture. I have a checkered past, having spent two-plus years incarcerated at Pendleton Reformatory back in the sixties for burglary. I'm all cleaned up now and you can invite me into your home and don't have to count the silverware when I leave. Graduated from Indiana University with a B.A. in General Studies (Honors of Distinction); obtained an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Email: butchedgerton@comcast.net Twitter: HookedOnNoir
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NEVER LET ANYONE RENT SPACE IN YOUR HEAD
Also... Senility isn't when you forget to zip up your pants... it's when you forget to zip them down...
Advice for writers: There is no such thing as a synonym. There's just the perfect word. The perfect word doesn't come in groups.
If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level... and then beat you with experience.
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
The value of the study of philosophy: Studying the deep thoughts of others is like studying their stools to figure out how to cook what they ate. It may be possible, but it's not worth what you have to wade through.
Two rules to live by to have a good life I gave to my son Mike:
1. Never date a girl named after a day of the week.
2. Never play poker with anyone named after a city.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much that he can't get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. (Wm. Faulkner)
Give a thief enough rope... and he'll use it to tie you up, beat you up, and steal all your stuff...
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Also... Senility isn't when you forget to zip up your pants... it's when you forget to zip them down...
Advice for writers: There is no such thing as a synonym. There's just the perfect word. The perfect word doesn't come in groups.
If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level... and then beat you with experience.
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
The value of the study of philosophy: Studying the deep thoughts of others is like studying their stools to figure out how to cook what they ate. It may be possible, but it's not worth what you have to wade through.
Two rules to live by to have a good life I gave to my son Mike:
1. Never date a girl named after a day of the week.
2. Never play poker with anyone named after a city.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much that he can't get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. (Wm. Faulkner)
Give a thief enough rope... and he'll use it to tie you up, beat you up, and steal all your stuff...
My life in one sentence: I keep getting bottle caps that say, "Try again." And so I do...
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Hi,
If you'd like to purchase any of my books, just click on the link.
1. Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go
2. Finding Your Voice
3. Monday's Meal
4. Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball
5. Surviving Little League
6. Kindle
7. The Death of Tarpons
Thank you!
If you'd like to purchase any of my books, just click on the link.
1. Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go
2. Finding Your Voice
3. Monday's Meal
4. Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball
5. Surviving Little League
6. Kindle
7. The Death of Tarpons
Thank you!
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7 comments:
Hope your class is going well.
I'm winding up my subbing stint. Our last day is 06/23. Then I hope to spend more time writing. And (the dreaded) querying.
It will be interesting to hear about your workshop/retreat.
Thanks, Theresa! Good luck on your queries. I hate doing that, too!
I'm getting excited about the possibility of the retreat. Doing a lot of phone calls/leg work, and hope to report something soon.
I'm sure your retreat will be very successful, you talk about the art of writing in a way that is clear and accessible. I'd be there if it wasn't a tad far from Australia.
Would DEFINITELY be interested in a workshop. Go Les!!! Count me in.
Charmaine, I didn't know you were an Aussie. Well, if you come we'll put a Budweiser on the barbie... (U.S. twist on your custom...) And, Australia's not that far. Last year, I was a presenter at the Writer's Institute at the U. of Wisc. and there was a young lady there from Luxembourg... and we became friends and she ended up coming to the 10-day retreat I appeared at later in the year in Kentucky. So... if you started swimming now, you could make it...
Mary, I KNEW I could count on you!
Ooh! Are you offering scholarships for that retreat? Will there be a bus heading there? I'm po'. Partial joking aside, that'd be cool. Which authors do you have in mind to invite at the moment? Any sci-fi and fantasy folks?
Hi Tiffany,
We'll probably be able to offer one scholarship, but that'll probably be all. It's really hard to turn much of a profit and I can't do it without at least making a little on it.
It won't be genre-specific or related. Just focused on good writing, period. Will be all kinds of writers there. As far as authors, we're exploring that now, but we want authors who are successful and not one-book folks. Have some other writers in mind, such as those who write good writer's how-to books. And we want to have top agents and not lower-echelon ones. Gonna be a lot of work!
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