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News! Creative Writing Workshop: Writing Place and Placelessness Friday, Sept 23, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm EST

Anya Achtenberg

for the International Women's Writing Guild Free Write withAnya Achtenberg Sefara-Rabi Writing Place and Placelessness A sense-of-place writing workshop to address place in a world of historical amnesia, diaspora, flight, trauma that knocks us out of place, gentrification; place as investment property, as profit. The poisoning of the sacred. Climate catastrophe.  All this with a deeper dive… Continue reading News! Creative Writing Workshop: Writing Place and Placelessness Friday, Sept 23, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm EST

Fictional worlds, News; things to look for, Story

Blue Earth, a novel: update on the recently published book.

Anya Achtenberg

Dear Writers, Dear Friends, I have so much to share with you, and I will be starting to post again, as much as I can on craft, so please watch these pages. For now, I have to tell you about my novel, Blue Earth. It’s now been a little while since Blue Earth – my… Continue reading Blue Earth, a novel: update on the recently published book.

Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Character Development, Fictional worlds, Narrators, News; things to look for, Story, Writing love

Beyond Formula: Writing Love Scenes that Support the Story with Spirit, Passion, Grit, and Character Truth: Independent class beginning January 12, 2012!

Anya Achtenberg

Dear Writers, I want to talk with you about my independent classes. I continue to teach Claiming Our Stories: Working with the Power of Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Parts One and Two, with writers.com/writers on the net, as you can see from my last posting. But I have been teaching Finding the Real Story: The… Continue reading Beyond Formula: Writing Love Scenes that Support the Story with Spirit, Passion, Grit, and Character Truth: Independent class beginning January 12, 2012!

Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Creative Process, Fictional worlds, News; things to look for, Story

Online Classes start again July 14; Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography & Autobiographical Fiction (Writers.com). August writing workshop/retreat at The Leaven Center. And independent story classes coming around again soon….

Anya Achtenberg

Dear Writers, Looking for a place to push your work to the next step? Do it online with me and a group of varied and dedicated writers, at Writers.com. I will again be teaching 2 classes online for writers.com/writers on the net, beginning July -- the 14th or 21st, TBA, 2011:  Claiming Our Stories: Working with… Continue reading Online Classes start again July 14; Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography & Autobiographical Fiction (Writers.com). August writing workshop/retreat at The Leaven Center. And independent story classes coming around again soon….

Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Creative Process, Fictional worlds

Online Classes Start April 21. Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, at Writers.com

Anya Achtenberg

Dear Writers, Looking for a place to push your work to the next step? Do it online with me and a group of varied and dedicated writers, at Writers.com. I will again be teaching 2 classes online for writers.com/writers on the net, beginning April 21, 2011:  Claiming Our Stories: Working with the Power of Autobiography and… Continue reading Online Classes Start April 21. Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, at Writers.com

Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Creative Process, Fictional worlds, General Writing, News; things to look for, Story

Online Classes Start January 11. Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, at Writers.com

Anya Achtenberg

Dear Writers, Looking for a place to push your work to the next step? Do it online with me and a group of varied and dedicated writers, at Writers.com. I will again be teaching 2 classes online for writers.com/writers on the net, beginning Jan. 11, 2011:  Claiming Our Stories: Working with the Power of Autobiography and… Continue reading Online Classes Start January 11. Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, at Writers.com

Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Fictional worlds, Story

Overwhelming. This year. In its watery infancy of March….Story is powerful.

Anya Achtenberg

Dear Writers, If I asked you to list the 10 events that have affected you most deeply in the past months since the new year entered or we entered the new year, in your immediate sphere, in your family, in this country, in another, in your love life, in your children's lives, in your art, down… Continue reading Overwhelming. This year. In its watery infancy of March….Story is powerful.

Creative Process, Fictional worlds, Research for works of fiction, Story, Uncategorized

Money and writing. Writing and money. Research, Truth, and Imagination.

Anya Achtenberg

April 30, 2009   Let’s face it. An economy in shock is not such a shock if you are not only a writer, but a writer from and remaining in the working class.   I am not allergic to the thought of making big money with my writing. Not at all. But the real joy… Continue reading Money and writing. Writing and money. Research, Truth, and Imagination.

Creative Process, Fictional worlds

Despair, Joy, Complexity: Against writing default endings to fictional stories.

Anya Achtenberg

March 19, 2009 (coincidentally, the day before spring)    Interesting times, no?   Hope? Change? Doom?   Restorative justice? Innocence Project? Families Destroyed. New Kinds of Families Being Created.   War Crimes. Truth and Reconciliation.   Environmental Destruction. Melting Ice Caps. Reclaiming the Rainforest. Greening the World.   Financial Collapse. Greening the Economy.   Dying… Continue reading Despair, Joy, Complexity: Against writing default endings to fictional stories.