Getting started on new work? Restarting an older piece? THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU!! Sunday, Oct. 9 at 1 pm ET

Hi Everyone,

Just a friendly reminder to mark your calendars for this FREE, 90-minute workshop for Las Dos Brujas subscribers with the funny, talented, effervescent Alejandro Nodarse! I’ll be there to say ‘hi’ for the first few minutes. Then prepare to immerse yourselves in a generative experience that will leave you with one or more new beginnings! Suitable for all genres.

We’ll be sending a link out on Saturday (the day before) so please watch for it …

Abrazos,

Cristina

More details:

IN THE BEGINNING … : OPENINGS, PROMISES, AND GROUNDING YOUR NEW PROJECT

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ―Plato, The Republic

When discussing the beginnings of her works, Toni Morrison once said: “Endings I always know, because that’s always what the book is about. The problem is getting there. I used to have these really awful beginnings—never really beginnings, they were starts.” What, exactly, is the difference between a beginning and a start? How are the promises made by a short story’s opening different from those of a novel’s beginning? How are they different from the beginning of a piece of creative nonfiction? The matter of what defines a beginning and a start is much more than semantics: it’s a matter of knowing, as a writer, where you find yourself in your project’s journey. This generative workshop will explore the makings of a compelling beginning in order to help us start fresh, compelling new writing projects.

BIO: Alejandro Nodarse is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. Since completing a master’s degree in English Literature and an MFA in Fiction, he has served as the Fiction Artist in Residence at The Deering Estate in Miami. He has been a finalist for the 2019 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship, was a 2020 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Fellow, received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, and was a runner up for the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award in 2021. His work has appeared in The Acentos Review, Burrow Press, Jai-Alai Press and other publications. A former apprentice arborist and independent bookseller, he now teaches writing at Miami Dade College and at Homestead Senior High in Homestead, FL.

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