2003
Wild Writing Women Literary Salons ALSO SEE ARCHIVES FOR: 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002
8 January 2003 5 February 2003 5 March 2003 2 April 2003 7 May 2003 4 June 2003 2 July 2003 August 2003 Bay area writers will enjoy this event featuring Constance Hale, author of two books on language, Sin and Syntax and Wired Style, which have gotten her called "Marion the Librarian on a Harley," and "E. B. White on acid."
Connie believes that today's writers need more spunk than Strunk. In the age of "got milk?" commercials and e-mails that read more like telegrams than literary epistles, the rules of language are changing. So can you just throw out that grade-school grammar? What's happening to English? How can you hue to the highest standards whether you're writing for posterity or refining the art of Web-posting? Her two subversive guides to writing takes you on an idiosyncratic tour of language and literature in the new millennium. As always, there will be time to meet and chat with one another over a glass of wine in the cozy Monticello Inn lobby. We look forward to seeing you on this evening of literary conversation and connection. For more information and events listings visit the Wild Writing Women Web site. 3 September 2003 The extraordinary story of how a husband and wife team, photographer Richard Blair and artist/writer Kathleen Goodwin, who created one of the most successful self-published books of all time; the #1 best selling book in Marin County for two years and #11 on the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Seller List. Point Reyes Visions is a museum-quality book of art and essays that captures the striking beauty of the untamed nature of California's Point Reyes peninsula, its wildlife, people, landmarks and rugged spirit. This pioneering effort in self-publishing was written, scanned, designed, and distributed entirely by the authors working from their Inverness home. Check out their Web site for oft-updated articles on the region. 1 October 2003
5 November 2003 3 December 2003 Our guest speaker was Don George, Editor at Large for Lonely Planet, who talked about his career as a travel writer and editor through the years and his new travel anthology. Our surprise guest was Lonely Planet co-founder Maureen Wheeler of Melborne, Australia, who was trailed by a cameraman for CNBC's Squawkbox segment. The program featuring Maureen will be aired in about 3 weeks. Our next salon will be January 7th, 2004, 5:30-7:00 pm at the Monticello Inn near San Francisco's Union Square. The salon is free, friendly, and open to the public. For more information visit the Wild Writing Women website. Here's a list of the notables we introduced: Don George, travel writer, editor, Lonely Planet's editor at large ___________________ |
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| You write in order to read what you've written and see if it's O.K. and, since of course it never is, to rewrite it — once, twice, as many times as it takes to get it to be something you can bear to reread. — Susan Sontag |
Connie has worked for "straight" papers like the Oakland Tribune and Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, but also for edgier pubs like SF Weekly and Wired where she earned a reputation as the cyber-Safire. Her freelance work -- in which she writes about everything from her grandmother's finishing-school notebook to her own attempts to master the hula -- has appeared in Health, Honolulu, and the Atlantic Monthly. 
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