WORD SOUP - Field's End

I have exciting news: 

I'm going to lead a four-week workshop for beginning writers called
"Word Soup"
for Field's End Writers' Community 
on Bainbridge Island.
We're calling it "Word Soup" because it is going to combine all kinds of good things (in the tradition of "Stone Soup") in order to make a flavorful, delicious, tantalizing offering to inspire and feed your writers' soul.

If you have been wanting to write, but haven't started...
If you've started writing, but stopped...
If you've suffered an artistic injury...
If the critics (internal or external) have been holding you back...
If you want to meet other aspiring/beginning writers and share the encouragement of safe community...
If you want to look at writing "outside of the box," then please go to www.fieldsend.org and sign up!

The dates are: May 15 & 22, June 5 & 12, 2014.
We'll meet at the Bainbridge Public Library on Thursday evenings from 6:30-7:00 P.M. for a brown bag dinner - please B.Y.O.B.B. (Bring Your Own Brown Bag). - This part is optional, and will help us all relax and develop community.
The workshop will begin at 7:00 and end at 8:30 P.M.

The first session is free; the total cost is only $60 for the following three workshops. Scholarships are available, so don't let cost stop you! If you know someone who might enjoy this workshop, please share! Registration is HERE.

Talk Like Shakespeare

I just found out that it's Talk Like Shakespeare Day, in honor of the Bard's 445th birthday!
Here is a link to the website: http://www.talklikeshakespeare.org/
where you can find a downloadable poster: http://www.talklikeshakespeare.org/res/TalkLikeShakespeare_Top10.pdf

If you are a fan (or even if you think you're not), check out the Ashland (Oregon) Shakespeare Festival. The work of the Bard comes alive there, and it's a fantastic way to see and hear his work performed, beautifully. I have enjoyed our trips there, and LOVED the performances, the charming restaurants, bed & breakfast inns & window-shopping in town. Gregg and I spent a few days there at the end of our honeymoon (on the way home from Maui), and it was fabulous.

Have thyself a wonderful birthday evening!