For The Joy of Writing
Posted by Majdi Badri on 5/07/2008Since the beginning of the Young Adult Council we have wanted to put together a play writing workshop and on May 10th from 11 to 3, it will come to pass. Aaron Carter, no not the singer, will be our leading playwright for the day. He is an awesome guy who I’ve been able to work with before and I’m really happy that he agreed to lead the workshop. The council had wanted to put one together, a workshop, for the longest time because writing, at least for the joy of writing, has kind of faded to the background of most teens. Plus, it not only builds on writing skills but on confidence. Sharing your written work is almost as difficult as getting on stage and reciting someone else’s.
It doesn’t seem difficult to do, trying to organize a workshop, but arranging space, marketing and contacting writers is a mite tougher then we had originally thought. No worries though, because we have had a lot of help from the Steppenwolf staff, like Ed Sobel, who gave us names and e-mails of writers. We drafted proposal after proposal, corrected them, and then began on flyers. Soon, after most of the council had run out of ink in their pens, we had it. This is the Council’s first public workshop and it is bound to be good. I actually can’t wait for it, I’m so excited.