I’ll come back and update this post as I get more info, or you can watch the events page at my website. Note that if a link isn’t available above, that means it’s not live yet with the hosting organization. May 23, virtual, 8pm ET: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at StoryStudio Chicago (book included with registration) May 10, virtual, 7pm ET: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at Literary Cleveland (book included with registration) ![]() May 2, virtual, 9pm ET: City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, with Kirstin Chen and Jac Jemc March 31, 7pm ET, virtual: Craft Chat at The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD, with Zach PowersĪpril 1, virtual: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at Tin House (book included with registration)Īpril 2, in-person, 6pm: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at Changing Hands, Phoenix, AZ (book included with paid registration)Īpril 7, virtual, 7pm ET: Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT, with Melanie FinnĪpril 8, virtual, 7:30pm ET: Refuse to be Done craft lecture at Charis Books, Atlanta, GA, co-hosted by Lostintheletters, with Scott Daughtridge (book included with registration)Īpril 14, virtual, 8pm ET: Mystery to Me, Madison, WI, with Michelle WildgenĪpril 22, in-person: Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project IntensiveĪpril 25, virtual, 6pm ET: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at Writing Workshops Dallas (book included with registration)Īpril 28, virtual, 10pm ET: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at Hugo House/Third Place Books (book included with registration) March 23, in-person: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at Porter Square Books, Boston, MA, hosted by Grub Street (book included with registration) March 22, 7pm ET, in-person/livestreamed: Book launch at the Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY, with Benjamin Dreyer March 19, 11am ET, virtual: Refuse to Be Done craft lecture at the Writer’s League of Texas (book included with registration) March 18, 4pm ET, virtual: “Friday Frontliner” at A Mighty Blaze, with Caroline Leavitt March 12, 6pm ET, in-person: “Workshop: The 3-Draft Novel” at the Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, AZ March 8, 7pm ET, virtual: “Writing, Revising, and Editing Your Story,” a panel at CityLit Festival with Melissa Febos, Dean Smith, and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, moderated by Aditya Desai. Hopefully I’ll see some of you one place or another! Here’s the schedule so far: It’s a step Refuse to Be Done describes too, but in less detail, so it might be worth returning to this newsletter to consider your options after you’ve read that part of the book.Īs I said last time, I’ve got a mix of in-person and virtual events coming up, in both conversational and interactive lecture formats. But this space will now give me a chance to occasionally expand on what’s included, as I do in the exercise below explaining how I map a first draft to plan my second. Refuse to Be Done was written before I began this newsletter, and very little of what’s in the book has been repeated here. If you’ve already ordered your copy or are picking it up from your local indie, thank you so much: I hope it helps you finish the novel you’re writing! If you’d like to sample the book first, an excerpt was published yesterday at Lit Hub, about how you might approach the exploratory, generative, playful work of your first draft. ![]() (And though I say novel, I hope the book will also be useful for people writing memoirs, creative nonfiction, and short stories: I use many of these tactics in almost everything I write, including my criticism.) Throughout the book, I advocate for an action-oriented approach, offering you many clear activities and next steps for every phase of novel writing, as well as ways to stay excited and invested. Today’s the day: my craft book Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts is now available! It’s an encouraging and practical guide to writing a novel and especially to revising and rewriting one, rooted in my own process and in what I’ve learned about the processes of others, as well as ten years of teaching novel writing workshops in my MFA program and elsewhere.
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