A monthly letter from Gotham’s president, Alexander Steele (writing advice and other musings)
The photo here caught my eye, a repost on the Gotham Instagram. It’s a hand-drawn map of the USA, with five names listed in five far-flung states on the map—“Me, Patrick, Rachel, Barbara, Anna.” Also written on the map: “My cabin mates and I met last fall taking an online writing class.” And then, covering much of the Midwest: the name and logo of Gotham Writers Workshop. Continue reading “Writing With Friends”
Wherever you are in life—probably wherever you are located right this minute—is part of a chain of cause and effect that began many years ago. Continue reading “Cause and Effect”
Some of us remember phone books—a collection of the names, addresses, and phone numbers of every household in the area, delivered once a year. A terrible waste of paper, but there was something compelling about having information on everyone in your city or town right there in one place, often a very thick binding of paper. Continue reading “Hello, Stranger”