Next week I’ll be teaching a course called The 60 Minute Writer. The title always makes me smile because it sounds like I teach people how to be a writer in an hour. It reminds me of a joke by, I think, Frank Carson:
We had a leak in our bathroom, so I looked in Yellow Pages and found an advert for someone headed “24 hour plumber”. So I called him in and instead of fixing the leak he caused a flood. I said to him, “How long have you been a plumber?”. He said, “24 hours.”
Each week I’ll be introducing a different writing technique, which people can spend some time trying out. There are 11 sessions, and in most of them I’ll be starting with a reading of an excerpt of an article, book or poem. I’ll also be recommending books for people to buy or borrow. I think it will be quite a good course, the more so because at the time of writing this there are only two places left, out of a maximum of 18. I’m quite excited by it, because I think (I hope) discussions will be vibrant.
At the time of writing there are still two places left, so if this course sounds like it might be of interest, click on this link to obtain more detailed information and to sign up for it: