Jessica Barksdale, author and writing instructor at DVC and UCLA
Friday evening, the twelve attendees introduced themselves at Jessica Barksdale’s annual writing retreat. Local attendees met three writers from the Los Angeles area and one from San Dieg0 who flew up here for the event.
Jessica spoke about going deeper into the villains of our stories to make them more human. Villains are bad but not all bad. “They were babies once too.”
Here is what we did today, Saturday:
Chatted about writing
Ate soup and salad on Jessica’s patio at the top of the S.F. east bay area hills.
Worked on our creative projects.
Had fun.
Four small groups of three members each met to offer comments on our submissions. Keby and Maria gave me excellent feedback on a short story.
I’m off to do my homework due tomorrow, the last day of the retreat for another year.
Julaina Kleist-Corwin
Editor of Written Across the Genres
Author of Hada’s Fog
