I went to Portland’s Wordstock book festival over the weekend. John Hodgman, the PC in the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads, was one of the stars of a weekend that was filled with signings, readings, writing workshops and other book-related activities. In case you missed it, I wrote this guest post about Wordstock for my friends Donna Wares and Kate Cohen’s book blog, CaliforniaAuthors.
Freelance writers who aren’t familiar with Wordstock will be interested in knowing that the festival included about two dozen, one-hour writing workshops. The workshops covered all genres of writing, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays and poetry. I signed up for a class on techniques for improving non-fiction storytelling taught by Eric Nuzum, a writing coach at NPR – he was terrific, I already used some of the things he talked about in a story I finished this morning. I’ll blog more about what I learned in the workshop in coming days. I’d definitely recommend signing up for the writing workshops next year.