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Dear Writer,

I’m writing this in my office on a cold June day. Rain streams down the windows, blurring my view of the lake. I’m struggling with updating websites–straining the limits of my social media skills as I punctuate the air with rare exclamations of delight and Tourettes-like outbursts I pray no one else can hear! But, it’s good to be warm inside Lakeshore Writers home at the Bellevue Club. The Spring session has just come to an end, and once again I am left feeling honored and inspired to have been witness to all the powerful new stories brought to life here!  Your characters and memories, poems and stories, linger in this space, keeping me company as I work. Thank you!

This has been a rich and productive time for me as a writer, producing lots of new material and loving it! I was delighted to learn a few weeks ago that my story “Save Me” has been  selected for inclusion in the Best New Writing of 2012–reminding me again that the writer’s life is an up-and-down endeavor. The up times are luxurious, brilliant, inspired days when I can’t wait to get back to my writing desk and hate to leave at days end, when the work feels effortless and I have no doubt that this is what I am meant to be doing. The fallow times are far more plentiful, when those bitch sisters of doubt block my doors, arms cross on their chests, smirking, rolling their eyes, tapping their toes, hissing get a real job; when the best I can do is show up each day, force my butt into the chair, and write one word after word, one page at a time, trusting that my muse will return again and take up residence, triple espresso in hand, champagne at the ready, whispering yes and yes and yes, stroking my hair, believing in what I have to say!    

Last  Saturday night,  I had the pleasure of reading at Babylon Salon in San Francisco. A wonderful event with writers D.A. Powell, Michael Jayme-Becerra, Peter Mountford, Leticia Del Toro and singer-songwriter Phil Lang. It was great to see some of you there.  Readings are a perfect writers date, a source of inspiration, a chance to connect with other writers, and to hear new work read in the author’s own voice. Lakeshore Writers will host a reading later this year. More news to come!

Now for business: Workshops will resume at the end of summer, just after Labor Day and will run for ten-weeks into mid-November. I will be offering two day long workshops in July and August and will continue private consultations throughout the summer.

My apologies to those writers I wasn’t able to accommodate this Spring. The Fall session is filling up quickly, so don’t wait too long to reserve your spot and create the space and time you’ve been promising yourself and your creative work!  I’ll be away a lot this summer, attending Tin House next month as well as some scheduled writing retreats, but I am available by email.

I always love to hear from you–what inspires you, what you’re working on; your successes and news, and even the emails when you’re in need of a pep talk, absolutely!

I look forward to seeing you, pen in hand, hearing your unique voice and what you most want to say!

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”

Anias Nin

What can you do today, this week, this month to nurture your creative spirit and feed your marvelous mind? Do it! Keep that pen moving! Taste your life!

Best,

Teresa