This Saturday I'm planning to have all my business and professional problems solved and my future assured.
You may think I'm exaggerating, but I have extraordinary high hopes and excitement about a seminar I'm participating in. The title is Strategic Planning Workshop for artists, run by a New York-based organization, Creative Capital Foundation. These workshops are given periodically at locations scattered around the country.
THE MOTIVATION: I saw one of my friends come back transformed from one of these classes last spring. Carrie Knowles, a visual artist as well as author of THE LAST CHILDHOOD, attended a weekend class.
When she got back, she bought a historic house, moved her office out of her house and into this new arts center, established an art gallery/studio in the building and a writing office, and rented space to me and others.
Moreover, six months later, she's still steaming ahead with her writing and art a lot faster than she used to.
THE RESULT: I'm going to go to this thing day after tomorrow and see what happens to me.
One of the exercises, I'm told, is doing an "elevator pitch." That's putting together--and practicing--a sentence that will sell your book to the publishing luminary you find yourself squeezed in next to on an elevator.
I will report here what happens.
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You are so brave! That one sentence pitch thing in an elevator is my worst nightmare!!
I once burst into Maya Angelou's dressing room, passed her shocked staff, and gave her a copy of Sister India. All in the effort to get a blurb for the paperback. No go. But it was an adventure. She was very nice to me, very gracious. My gall on behalf of my writing has almost no bounds.
I think my friend Maleika will be at that same conference - if you see her - please say hello from Julia. Good luck, I hope its all you plan it to be, and more!
I'll certainly look up Maleika and say hello. Thanks for your good wishes.
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