Writers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a novel idea for a writing workshop and I hope you can join me in Astoria on Saturday July 20th<\/sup> from 10-12:30. I’m calling the workshop \u201cResponding to a Message of Heartbreak\u201d.: Here is its unusual origin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March I saw something lying on the ground near a dumpster of a convenience store as I walked through the parking lot of the assisted living center where my dad is a resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I approached the curiosity and discovered a piece of cardboard roughly 18\u201d by 18\u201d with handwriting all over it in red and black ink. The size of the text varied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I read the message. The writing was not in paragraph form. There was nothing linear about its appearance. It was more of a mishmash of riffs, declarations, confessions, digressions, screeds, lamentations, perhaps a kind of written jazz or tormented anti-valentine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the lines were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If I die today, would anyone even notice? I doubt it. The devil will love me better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to disappear and maybe they will miss me then…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Men are what’s wrong with this world. \u201cGod\u201d fucked up.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I thought I had my dream guy…instead he became my nightmare.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Guess I’m meant to die alone. Why am I so easy to forget. So easy to throw away?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3-08-24 \/ 2:04 am<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wouldn’t you know it? I’m here alone again. Freezing cold.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Is love really the answer? I know it’s the problem.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I took the message home and began writing up my thoughts about it immediately. I knew I wanted to teach a writing workshop with this cardboard message of heartbreak as the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the workshop, I will run participants through a series of writing and conversation prompts related to the message. We’ll share some of our responses and conclude by writing a short piece inspired by the anonymous writer’s words of anguish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you can join me and explore this message. It’s always so wonderful to bring a group of writers together in Astoria who support one another. It’s a unique community that provides immeasurable literary and psychic benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The workshop will run from 10-12:30 and cost $50. Payment will be made at the workshop or in advance through PayPal. It will be held in a private home. Weather permitting, the workshop will be held outdoors on a lawn. In the case of inclement weather, the class will be moved indoors. The class is limited to 12 participants. To register, send me an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writers: I have a novel idea for a writing workshop and I hope you can join me in Astoria on Saturday July 20th from 10-12:30. I’m calling the workshop \u201cResponding to a Message of Heartbreak\u201d.: Here is its unusual origin: In March I saw something lying on the ground near a dumpster of a convenience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-writing","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}