If you are a writer—or want to be a writer—you most likely are a master of procrastination. Few activities are more exhilarating and more frustrating than trying to write something you’re proud to have read. It’s no wonder that getting stuck is often the rule, not the exception.
Help is at hand! The Bowen Island Arts Council is bringing the incomparable Ivan E. Coyote to Bowen Island on Saturday, November 15. Islanders lucky enough to have seen Ivan at the 2010 “Write on Bowen” Festival know they are in for a treat. From 1 to 4 pm, Ivan is presenting a three-hour workshop called “Boot Camp for Procrastinators” that is designed to help writers—particularly writers interested in writing memoir—get inspired and get going. Here’s how Ivan describes the workshop:
Have you always dreamed of writing your memoirs down but were never sure where to start? Do you have a half-finished masterpiece stuffed into the back of a desk drawer? Still stuck on that not quite fabulous first line? Enlist today. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Today. Fall in and step to as Ivan Coyote runs you through a series of exercises designed to build up your first line muscles, train yourself to capture those fleeting late night epiphanies, and practice bluffing yourself into believing.
In the evening, starting at 7 pm, Ivan will present “Talking the Talk,” a live performance workshop for writers, poets, and storytellers. Quill Magazine describes Ivan’s work as having a “distinctive and persuasive voice, a flawless sense of pacing, and an impeccable sense of story.” Ivan is also an exceptionally entertaining presenter.
Ivan Coyote was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. An award-winning author of eight collections of short stories, one novel, three CD’s, four short films and a renowned performer, Ivan’s first love is live storytelling. Over the last nineteen years Ivan has become an audience favourite at music, poetry, spoken word and writer’s festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam.
Tickets for the workshop are $50 or $60 for the workshop and the evening event. Tickets for the evening event only are $20. Tickets are available at the Gallery @ Artisan Square or online at biac.ca.
