Tag: chautauqua

  • How not to build a writing community [one]

    The secret sauce is mostly: Don’t do what I do.

    Most of my attempts have been failures (aside from one single community), so I am not 100% certain why I am proposing the creation of another.

    [Yes. The main point of these posts is to argue with myself if I should do such an absurd thing as try to get writers into a space to write and discuss. The most recent attempt at getting an online book discussion community was a considerable failure and only had three participants, including myself.]

    Most of my attempts to try to build a writing community have failed save for the short-lived (is around nine months “short-lived”?) spoken word salon I ran during the 90s in Seattle, so I am not 100% certain why I am proposing the creation of another.

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