Friday evening, the twelve attendees introduced themselves at Jessica Barksdale’s annual writing retreat. Local attendees met three writers from the Los Angeles area and one from San Dieg0 who flew up here for the event. Jessica spoke about going deeper into the villains of our stories to make them more human. Villains are bad but […]
Adriane Nichols Talked about Connecting
At Jessica Barksdale Inclan’s two-day retreat, I was happy to see L.A. actress and life coach, Adriane Nichols again. We both have attended Jessica’s workshops three times. When Jessica gave us time to write, I found the deck off of the kitchen with no one else there. I wrote the beginning of Chapter Five for […]
Jessica Barksdale’s Writing Retreat starts tomorrow
The next two days will be the third time I’ve attended Jessica Barksdale’s writing retreats. Set among the tress in the East Bay hills, with several cozy places to write in between her lectures and critiques of participants 25 page submissions, it’s my favorite place to join writers. Jessica Barksdale is the author of twelve […]