Virtual Writers: NaNoWriMo 2020 Event Schedule
NANOWRIMO AT MILK WOOD We are excited to announce that we’ll be hosting a selection of online workshops again this year. Click on the links below to participate at the specific time. These workshops are held in Second Life®. All scheduled events take place online at the Milk Wood Writing Group area (unless otherwise stated) or in the writing room at Book Island (Sundays at 12 noon PT). All are welcome to join us. ══════════════════════════ Writing Workshops & Write-Ins══════════════════════════ Creating Workshops for Second Life®: Writer’s EditionHosted by Mossy Symbiosis Monday 19th October, 20201pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm GMT Mossy will take you through the process of making a workshop come to life in Second Life®. She’s hosted many circle talks, made worksheets for her own creative purposes, and led people through feedback exercises for their work. She combines the knowledge and skill she’s gained in an easy to tackle format. About Mossy An artist, poet, pagan, philosopher, wounded healer, and dilettante. Mossy hosts open talks on spirituality and open mics for poetry gatherings; she’s led pagan ceremonies and classes on Wicca from a Religious Studies perspective, and has been involved in various Second Life® installations, expos, and exhibits, including showcases of RL photography, poetry, Second Life® photos, drawings, digital art, and mixed media. Mossy is also an amateur builder, novice scripter, and aspiring sound sensation. Feel free to keep up to date with her projects, side quests and intermission missions, by joining her Second Life® group “Mossy’s Glorious Shenanigans“ Click here to be taken to the online event. ——– Writing Through Covid-19 ConstrictionsHosted by Barbara Jacksha (aka Raina Anatra) Friday 23rd October, 2020 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT Feeling uninspired, cramped or constrained by Covid-19 restrictions? If so, you’re not alone. Many writers have found it difficult to focus on their writing projects during the upheaval and uncertainty that the coronavirus has caused during 2020. In this workshop, we’re going to turn the tables. You’re going to learn how to use some of the restrictions you’ve been experiencing to jump-start your writing. You’ll receive writing prompts and some tips designed to get you and your writing process moving again — and keep you moving. No matter what new manner of craziness pops up in the world. The hand’s-on workshop will run for 90 minutes. Be prepared to write! All writers are welcome, no matter which genre or form you write in. You can interpret the prompts however you wish. Wild creativity is always welcome. About Barbara Barbara Jacksha is the author/creator of the Vision Pages series, which includes “Vision Pages for Creative Writers with Daring Dreams: a vision journal for imagining your dreams to life.” Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Smokelong Quarterly, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Summerset Review, Per Contra, Mad Hatter’s Review, and the W.W. Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward. Barbara has received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize. She was also a co-founder/co-editor of the literary journal...
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