Salt Pond Writers

An affiliate of Amherst Writers and Artists

The leader writes along with others in the workshop and reads with the others.

 

-from Writing Alone and with Others by Pat Schneider

                                                                   

Salt Pond Writers Workshops are led by Margie Bucheit, who is a member of Pat Schneider’s weekly writing workshops. The new southern New England venture brings the Amherst Writers and Artists method to Rhode Island.

 

Margie leads two weekly three hour workshops. They are held on Monday evenings and Wednesday mornings. The Wednesday morning workshop is for women only. The workshops meet locally in Matunuck, Rhode Island, a coastal community of villages, farms, ocean beaches and tidal salt ponds. Each workshop session lasts for ten weeks.

 

 

Writing Time

-by Jane Schneeloch

 

I stop writing

to make a cup of coffee

to read the mail

to put a load of wash in

to play a game of solitaire

to water the African violet

to straighten the piles on my desk

to pluck my eyebrows

to call my mother

to shorten a pair of slacks

to pay a bill

to look for a lost phone number to check my e-mail

to get another CD to play

to file my nails

to scan a picture of my cousins

to make lunch

to watch the news

to read a magazine

to put the wash in the dryer

to make a cup of tea

to take a nap

to put the laundry away

to shut off the computer

and wonder where

I will find the time

to write great things.

 

 

WEEKLY WRITING WORKSHOPS