This year’s Compose conference will feature keynote speaker Stephen Graham Jones and offer workshops on a variety of writing topics such as science-fiction, fairytale, poetry, and comics.
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Each time we approach the blank page or screen, we do so believing that if words are cared for and brooded over, something larger and better will emerge. We believe that the torrent of thought will find expression in something as flimsy as a string of words. What a strange and miraculous magic this is! But what happens when the magic dries up or the story in question feels a little stale? In this generative session we will discuss roadblocks to starting our creative pieces and what we can if we run out of creative “steam” mid-story or mid-project. During this session we will plumb the bright abyss of our creative imaginations as we play in the sandbox and contemplate what wild and astonishing creatures want to emerge. That is to say, we will do some writing, some thinking, some daydreaming, some discussing of creative process.
