Dangerous

May 7, 2009

Taking Tom Spanbauer‘s Dangerous Writing Workshop this weekend– all weekend.

I’m excited, nervous, anxious.

Here’s Chuck Palahniuk on Dangerous Writing:

Write about the issues that really upset you. Those are the only things worth writing about. In his course, called “Dangerous Writing,” Tom Spanbauer stresses that life is too precious to spend it writing tame, conventional stories to which you have no personal attachment. There are so many things that Tom talked about but that I only half remember: the art of “manumission,” which I can’t spell, but I understood to mean the care you use in moving a reader through the moments of a story. And “sous conversation,” which I took to mean the hidden, buried message within the obvious story.

-Will I be able to go there? To that dark place?