Notice for writers

[Judith A. Panetta]

Any comments, reactions, suggestions about this
organization? Good? Bad? Indecent? Exploitive? Blissful?
Well worth the time and money?

The Great Quail wrote:
> 
> I hope no one minds me using the List for a sort of personal reason,
> but I think there may be some people who are interested in this.
> 
> As some of you know, I run a Web site called "The Modern Word," which
> contains the Libyrinth and a whole lot of author sites, including a
> Pynchon site called "Spermatikos Logos." Recently, we have teamed up
> with Gotham Writer's Workshop, an organization that offers online
> writing classes. Starting in mid October, we will be offering a joint
> class -- "Modern Fiction I." It will be run by Gotham Writers
> Workshop, using their "virtual classroom" technology and all their
> experience and such; but the focus will be on fiction with an
> experimental slant. Though the class plans to go over the basics, it
> will nevertheless be more under the influence of authors such as
> Joyce, Garcia Marquez, Pynchon, etc. than, say, Dickens and Updike,
> and will be informed by aspects of modern fiction such as
> stream-of-consciousness narrative and trends like magic realism. The
> class will run 10 weeks, and will have the same tuition, class size,
> and structure as their other classes. If it is successful, and if
> there is interest, might lead into a more advanced "Modern Fiction
> II" class.
> 
> If anyone is interested, or knows anyone who may be interested,
> please go to this URL for details:
> 
> http://www.writingclasses.com/online/modernword.html
> 
> Anyway, there you go.... I do not want to insult the list with
> something that is basically an advertisement, but as some of the New
> Yorkers might know, Gotham Writers Worksop is a pretty cool outfit,
> and I think this is a worthwhile project. (They are also looking for
> instructors, by the way, for many other classes -- something that may
> be of interest to List members as well!)
> 
> Best,
> 
> --Quail
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth:
> http://www.TheModernWord.com
> 
> "Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick
> as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of
> whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde
> from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook,
> what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede
> (since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us
> of Emailia!"
>           --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
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