Well... actually from the lovely Loft's Blog for teens .... from several months ago, but still! but shucks! I ought google (g-ogle?) myself more often...( Do you know what's fun to do for a prompt, by the way? Write an interview with yourself... (whenever, however, whatever...) This one's real though... for the record.
Three Questions with Roxanne Sadovsky
“Creative Writing for Outsiders, Misfits, and the Counterculture” (ages 13–17) with Roxanne Sadovsky starts June 18
What’s your favorite part of summer?
Hands down, riding my bike, especially along the amazing trails. When that trail happens upon an outdoor music festival somewhere, I am super blissed out!
Hands down, riding my bike, especially along the amazing trails. When that trail happens upon an outdoor music festival somewhere, I am super blissed out!
What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever heard?
It seems that my entire life I have been hearing and reading great advice about writing which has all made perfect sense (or none at all) at the time it was offered. The best has come from Brenda Ueland, Stephen King, and Cary Tenis. I’ve heard some doozies, I’ll tell ya that. Doozies I even took seriously, which I still regret to this day because they advised writing more from head than heart, which resulted in some pretty hollow substance beneath the shiny shell of big words. Luckily, a few folks came along at some point early enough in my wild young days in Los Angeles and told me, in not so many words, and in varied echoes, to write my truth. No matter what, write your truth. Ever since, I have followed the creative process into that deeper truth where lives an everflowing spring of pure writing flow!
It seems that my entire life I have been hearing and reading great advice about writing which has all made perfect sense (or none at all) at the time it was offered. The best has come from Brenda Ueland, Stephen King, and Cary Tenis. I’ve heard some doozies, I’ll tell ya that. Doozies I even took seriously, which I still regret to this day because they advised writing more from head than heart, which resulted in some pretty hollow substance beneath the shiny shell of big words. Luckily, a few folks came along at some point early enough in my wild young days in Los Angeles and told me, in not so many words, and in varied echoes, to write my truth. No matter what, write your truth. Ever since, I have followed the creative process into that deeper truth where lives an everflowing spring of pure writing flow!
There are two other pieces of writing wisdom I wish to share, which came to me at the U of M while getting my MFA…First, Michael Dennis Browne used to ask us after we wrote together “what was that like to write?” and for some reason that question has guided my writing and teaching ever since. Also, Charles Baxter told me while working with me on my memoir at the U to “linger.” He reminded me to not rush my scenes, to linger in the moment, the relationships, the real details of the moment.
What can students expect out of “Creative Writing for Outsiders, Misfits, and the Counterculture”?
A week to change your life!
A week to change your life!
Roxanne Sadovsky is a Twin Cities freelance writer and teacher who facilitates creative workshops to foster personal and community wellness. She recently earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Before she became a writer, she lived in Seattle and worked as a family and adolescent psychotherapist; needless to say, Sadovsky loves the creativity, passion, and personal discovery found working with anyone who doesn’t entirely fit into the mainstream!
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