Brian Nazzaro: writing conference

In the my first seminar about editors I found many things that inspired me. The most inspirational thing was to see where these editors and journalist started out. These people are just a average people who had goals and worked hard in what they loved to do. That inspires me to not give up on my goals.

Trippe's Blogpost Day 3

Today we toured the whaling museum in New Bedford. It was truly incredible to see all the history that was present in this town! Our group learned many different, interesting facts. One of these facts was that whales have eyes on the side of their head. Another was that a whale is the only animal that "creates it's own demise". The sailors would use the dried, brittle, unusable pieces of blubber from the oil creating process to use as fuel in the fire...which would be used in the oil creating process. We learned that the most valuable material from a Sperm Whale was the Spermaceti contained in it's head cavity. This material, a sort of goop, was used to facilitate their eco-location. It amplified the noises sent out by the Sperm Whale, in order to better locate giant squid on the bottom of the ocean. This picture is of the skeleton of the Sperm Whale. Seeing this skeleton truly inspired me. Its immense size was incredible.

Aveson; Whaling Museum Inspiration

The rope from the Waling Museum inspired me. It showed me that you can take something so simple like a piece of rope and create something so complex, like the different types of knots. I learned that turning something simple into complex can be expressed through different types of art.

Schwing AWP Conference

Yesterday, we attended the AWP Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. It was quite a change from the calm and laid back atmosphere in Woods Hole and New Hampton. We walked in and were overwhelmed by the amount of people, the noise, the large spaces, and realized how long we have been separated from reality. I remember in one moment I found myself standing still in the middle of a large walkway with traffic coming both ways. I stayed still and just took everything around me in, especially the fact that I was surrounded by thousands of brilliant writers. Our goal this week was to find inspiration and study authors and their inspirations and I couldn't pick a better moment than that to have seen inspiration head on. 

Looking back at the week

During this project week, Write On, I learned that inspiration can come from anything and everything. My favorite part of the week was when we went to the music concert at the Berklee College of Music. It was amazing to see such a diverse group of students performing such a wide range of music. I loved listening to the girl from Israel sing and play a kazoo! 

Brian Nazzaro: Whale museum

It was inspirational to see the bed's the whalers slept in and the tretourous voyages these people embarked on. Most voyages lasted 4 years, and consisted  of harmful and cramped living. These men set out, left home and family for sometimes no reward. What it took to be a whaler really inspired me and when I think I have it hard the whaleing museum showed me that it could be a lot worse.

Jule: Fiction about creative artists and writing

Lat summer of the world- by Emily Mitchell

• Fiction about photography
• World War One 
• Very descriptive narration
• creativity is often representative 
• Time travel device/flashback
• Each photograph tells a story 
•  Tried to undermine the meaning of portrait 
• Tried to focus on style and material as if someone would observe a photograph

Second session

Facts about writing

• Writing education is for everyone
• Writing is a democratic tool
• Writing outside of classroom environments requires that everyone learn. Constantly
• All writers-all coaches and clients-can learn from inventive process of community
• Money tree- navigate system, to be comfortable 
• Flexibility (feminist)
• Live in the Wild West
• Draw from models that exist
• Draw boundaries by defining your mission
• Enlist support 

Siqi Wang From the Hamster Wheel to the sandbox

The session " From the Hamster wheel to sandbox: Dreams and Free Association, New Media, and playfulness in the writing classroom is actually a session for teachers. But I didn't know about that before I walked in, so I gained another experience  of seeing poetry and free writing from another sight- teachdr's sight. One of the speaker really gave me another idea of poetry. He talked about how playfulness is involved in poems. He said there is a great difference between first year graders' ideas and college students' ideas. First graders have loose mind, their mind is not stucked in a sepcific range. They spread their mind everywhere. But college students' work is usually damaged. Because they are only thinking of how can they make their poem the best, or this is a poem, it has to be good. They don't know how to play with poems anymore. This is the time that I notice that poem isn't something must to be fascinating. Just loose my mind then I can create a good poem too.

Aveson; AWP Conference

At the AWP Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, I attended a seminar called Friction About Creative Writing. Writers talked about how they got their inspiration on artist in dance, photography, acting performance art and writing. Each artist expanded their thoughts in how language connects the world which I found very interesting. One writer, Emily Mitchell, wrote novels based n photographs. She looks at an image and creates that story from what comes to mind when she looks at it.

Little AWP Conference- Fiction About Creative Artists

Attending this seminar was really interesting. Every writer was inspired by different aspects of other artists. Some wrote biographically about photographers, or dancers and their struggles after their careers. Others wrote about the inspiration of music and how the beauty of instruments and sound has inspired their own fictitious writing. One man wrote books about writers and how they influenced peoples lives. Every author had different interpretations of how to represent an artist in their writing. Using an artist's work to get inside their head was a reoccurring theme and they all added a little tweak to the definition of ekphrasis. My favorite was that it is a way to address the conflict between the realms of images and linguistics. I learned a lot about the processor writing and inspiration from them, and many truths were revealed. A book is made up of things that are hard to believe and the characters within all have different ways of being born.

Mariza---Fiction About Creative Artists

Brock Clark is a writer that talked about his creative process and what he likes writing about. In this talk/lecture Brock talked about his book arsonists guide to new England homes. He talked about how writing about writers sounds narcissistic, and he loathes reading those books and writing about them because they seem immodest. Brock is a funny guy, who books seem equally as funny.

Harvard man

At the conference on literary journalism I found it hard to invest any interest in the speakers. They weren't great public speakers. But, I did meet a guy named Joe who is currently attending Harvard Graduate School. He is a sociology major and came to the convention as part of his major studies. He was quite knowledgable and welcoming!

Veronika Reichert - Conference&Bookfair Boston 2013

   Emily Mitchell who talked in the "Fiction about to creative writing", is about to publish her second novel. She tried herself on writing fiction about photography where she also got a little experience in photographing. From another writer who presented his book could I learn that I should never write about writers. The next presenter had the opinion that writing is the loneliest form of art and art had played always a huge part in his life so he decided to continue that. He likes about writing that what is written can take any form or shape and can also include everything you want. For the writing he read he got inspired by music.

   The next session we went to was about a project to coach and help young writers to publish even if they don't live in a city. She first interviewed some people for that and published some community votes. Her goal was to give all people the chance for education in writing.

McCollom: The Silent History

Check out this new form of "novel," The Silent History.

http://thesilenthistory.com/

It's an ipad/iphone app/story that involves author-generated content about a spooky generation of children born without the ability to use language, but it also involves readers continually offering their own fictional "testimonials" (short stories) that get published after passing through their editor. Even that doesn't do it justice, though. It's basically a real-life video game book.