{"id":19697,"date":"2012-07-19T10:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T14:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=19697"},"modified":"2012-07-09T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:01:48","slug":"do-the-write-thing-a-fiction-writing-workshop-with-ed-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=19697","title":{"rendered":"Do the Write Thing: A Fiction Writing Workshop with Ed Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 19, 7:00pm to Friday, August 17, 9:00pm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aaww.org\/curation\/do-the-write-thing-a-fiction-writing-workshop-with-ed-lin\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Asian American Writers&#8217; Workshop<\/a><br \/>\n110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Do-the-Right-Thing.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[19697]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19698\" title=\"Do the right thing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Do-the-Right-Thing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to bat around issues about character, plot, point of view, description, dialogue, setting, pacing, voice and theme (whew!) in terms of writing. But Ed Lin promises to spend as little time as possible talking about those concepts. Lin believes writing is akin to playing a musical instrument that no one else has ever seen or heard before, and that authors are generally right even when they aren&#8217;t sure what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p>The class requirements are:<br \/>\n1) an irrepressible desire to write and<br \/>\n2) ten pages of new fiction to be workshopped, due before the first class.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Lin is the author of Waylaid, This is A Bust, and Snakes Can\u2019t Run. Heralded as \u201can astonishing talent\u201d by Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot D\u00edaz, Lin is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His latest, One Red Bastard (Minotaur Books), was praised by novelist Don Lee as \u201creminiscent of Elmore Leonard and compulsively readable.\u201d He is a frequent blogger for Giant Robot and a regular co-host of the popular AAWW Mouth To Mouth: Open Mic Series. Lin has served on the Reading Committee for the distinguished Annual Young Lions Fiction Award. Lin\u2019s Waylaid served as inspiration for the Sundance favorite, the Motel. Lin has made appearances in The Potential Wives of Norman Mao, Super Power Blues, and other feature films. He lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.<\/p>\n<p>Six Mondays from July 9 to August 13, 2012, 7PM-9PM<br \/>\nFee: $350 General\/$325 Members<br \/>\nDeposit: $40 General Deposit\/$36 Member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 19, 7:00pm to Friday, August 17, 9:00pm The Asian American Writers&#8217; Workshop 110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19700,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions\/19700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}