Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe Walks - my rant
From: Josh Geller 
Date: 26 Jul 2003 06:16:36 -0700

As I say, I am wondering how much I would pay for a week's writing class
with Gene Wolfe. The answer is at least a couple of hundred dollars,
perhaps more.

I wonder further. I wonder how much how many people on this mailing list
would be willing to pay for a week's writing class with Gene Wolfe. How
many people here would be willing to pay two hundred dollars for a
week's writing class with Gene Wolfe? If the answer is ten or twelve, 
don't you think that $2000 or $2400 could pay the Wolfe's travel, food
and hotel expenses and perhaps even afford them a small fee? All work
would have to be done on a volunteer basis, of course. Do people who
know the Wolfes think they might be interested?

I would be willing to devote time and work to this, if there are other 
people who are willing to devote time and work to this.

What does everyone think?


J.

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On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:26, Andrew Bollen wrote:
> I took a friend of mine to lunch yesterday to celebrate her first book being
> accepted for publication by Random. She found the workshop thing very
> valuable. Before the workshop, she had a draft manuscript and scattered
> comments on it from all over the place, but nothing very informed. The main
> value of the workshop was *useful reading*, to use her phrase. She was told
> the manuscript was totally unpublishable, for this reason and that, and that
> she would have to rewrite it. So she spent a couple of years rewriting from
> scratch, taking note of the specific criticisms, and ended up published.
> 
> She believes her work experience as a speech-writer, policy analyst etc for
> various senior politicians and bureaucrats was very helpful in being able to
> use criticism effectively: she'd spent years being told, brusquely, that
> pieces were no good & to rewrite them. But others in the workshop found it
> much harder to handle.
> 
> Being able to use criticism is one of those things you get from experience,
> if you're lucky. Sounds like these people have a way to go.
> 
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