Comments on: Mentors and Monsters http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/06/mentors-and-monsters/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Wanda B. Ontheshelves http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/06/mentors-and-monsters/comment-page-1/#comment-23426 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:18:14 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6114#comment-23426 I think I used up my weekly blog-ability on Miriam’s post about influences, managing to throw something in about Rachel’s literary mashups – but, I wanted to say thanks for the link to The Millions – I clicked on the “support” link at the top, and apparently you can “subscribe” for $1 a month! Woo-hoo! A fun summer bargain.

Re: Mentoring – I’m going to my first “women writers group” next week. I’m excited, because these are women with whom I share politics – local politics – how can I put this? I’m a starry-eyed pie-in-the-sky kind of person when it comes to Detroit – and so is my novel. That doesn’t sound political does it? I mean, is an “I Love New York” t-shirt political? I don’t think so – but around here, “I Love Detroit” can be practically fighting words. (Family member, irritated on Thanksgiving: “You do realize Detroit is a failure, don’t you?”)

I read the Oates piece, then looked her up on Wikipedia, it says: “Oates taught in Beaumont, Texas, for a year before moving to Detroit in 1962, where she began teaching at the University of Detroit. Influenced by the Vietnam war, the 1967 Detroit race riots, and a job offer, in 1968 Oates moved with her husband to teaching positions at the University of Windsor, Canada.”

Right across the river from Detroit. All roads lead to (away from) (to) Detroit. Think I’ll go write in my journal now, a little “self-mentoring” never hurts :)

]]> By: Hazel Keats http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/06/mentors-and-monsters/comment-page-1/#comment-23422 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:32:48 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=6114#comment-23422 Honestly, those whom have time to give advice to me didn’t usually pertain to the industry today. Their experiences weren’t going to be mine. Everything you need is from blogs such as DGLM.

The best thing I ever did was seek out a writers group and form critique group. Newbies learn best from each others’ failures and glories. Be warned this takes time to get a group that you click with, don’t get discouraged when it doesn’t happen right away.

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