Kenyon is a gorgeous campus, green and, this week, blessed with near-perfect weather.
Salient features of the workshop:
- Writing: every day, most of the day
- Reading or hearing others’ writing: a good chunk of the day
- Talking about writing: the rest of the day
- Regression: spartan dorm rooms without even a poster or two; standing in line with trays in the cafeteria, hoping the athletes leave you something
- Impostor syndrome: rampant, especially if you take the time to read your fellow students’ bios
- Luxury: allowing the outside world to recede
- Inspiration: it floods the place, oozing out of the teachers’ presentations, the fellow students’ passion, the requirement to write thousands of words
- Growing anxiety: the assigned slot to read fresh work to the entire group of students and teachers approaches
On Elk Meadow Road 