Five Days, Ten Thousand Words with Steve Lewis

    Monday, July 8, 2019 at 9:30 AM until Friday, July 12, 2019 at 12:00 PMUTC -04:00


    Sarah Lawrence College
    1 Mead Way
    Bronxville, NY 10708
    United States

    Instructor: Steve Lewis
    1 week, $880


    Class is limited to 8 participants.

    Based in part on the weeklong retreats Steve facilitates on Hatteras Island, NC, the intention behind this intensive is to gather serious writers already at work on—or about to launch—fiction or nonfiction projects of their own choosing; and to give them the space, time, encouragement, community, and kick-in-the-pants to write a minimum of 2,000 unedited words a day. The group will meet each morning, Monday through Friday, to share and discuss the previous afternoon/evening’s output; then everyone will return home or to their own creative spaces and proceed to produce another 2,000+/- words for the next day’s session. The overriding challenge of this workshop will be to trust the intuitive voice and resist the urge to edit oneself … at least until the draft is done. At the end of the week, every writer should have at least 10,000 good words on paper—and be profoundly tired and inspired.

    Steve Lewis is a former Mentor at SUNY-Empire State College, current member of the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute faculty, and longtime freelancer. His work has been published widely, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, Ploughshares, Narratively, Spirituality & Health and a biblically long list of parenting publications (7 kids, 16 grandkids). He is a Contributing Writer at Talking Writing and Literary Ombudsman for Read650.com. His more recent books include Zen and the Art of Fatherhood, Fear and Loathing of Boca Raton, a novel, Take This, a generational sequel titled Loving Violet, and a new novel, A Hard Rain (http://www.codhill.com/product/a-hard-rain-by-steven-lewis/). 

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