By
Stephanie Harvin of The Post and Courier Staff
Originally Published on: 9/09/01
Page: G 5
Writer's block is not always about an inability to put words on paper. Sometimes
it is about emotional issues that get in the way.
When Rosemary Daniell, noted feminist and Southern writer,
conducts her Zona Rosa Workshop at the Center for Women
on Saturday, she will address the dual
issues of being both a writer and a woman - and the issues that can get in
the way when female writers face a blank page.
The author of a new book of essays titled Confessions
of a (Female) Chauvinist (Hill
Street Press, $19.95), Daniell calls herself a "rebel Southern female
who still embraces her roots."
Her essays are a collection of her feminist writings that explore what happens
when a Southern woman breaks the rules.
But she also has been conducting writing workshops called Zona Rosa (Spanish
for the Pink Zone or red-light district) for 21 years in Savannah and Atlanta
and is the author of the writing handbook The Woman Who Spilled Words All
Over Herself (Faber and Faber, $13.95). In it, she carries her philosophy
of breaking the rules into teaching aspiring writers to ignore the inner critic.
In her workshops, she addresses such issues as women who need to make time
for writing - and women who need to learn that their writing is just as important
as the other things they do for families and friends. She stresses a nonlinear,
non goal-oriented approach to writing that she describes as feminine. Some of
her long-time students have gone on to write novels and movie scripts.
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Topics
covered will include:
•Jump-start your writing and blast through
writing blocks.
• Tap into new material through a variety of
writing "exorcises."
• Do battle with common forms
of self-sabotage.
• Recognize flaws, fatal flaws and fabulous
flaws.
• Discover and enhance your unique voice and style.
•Learn
how to use emotional t'ai chi in dealing with the marketplace
- and where to go from there.
Daniell was the featured speaker last year at the Center for Women's Fourth Annual
Community Recognition Dinner. Jennet Robinson Alterman, executive director, says
that the presentation of Daniell's workshop is part of the Center's ongoing mission
to produce ways for women to develop professionally and personally.
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