Workshops Introducing THE VERTICAL PRONOUN: Personal Writing Workshops, intimate instruction in intimate writing by Sarah Saffian. Folks of all ages and with any amount of writing experience (including none) are warmly welcome. If interested, please give a holler. Though only one letter long, the word "I" can intimidate a writer. But everyone has a story—it's just a matter of determining what it is, and telling it engagingly, with originality and flair. How can my story be both unique and universal, both precisely mine and meaningful to others? "Personal narrative," says David Carr, "is not simply opening up a vein and letting the blood flow toward anyone willing to stare." In short, who cares? I offer individual consultation/editing at various levels of intensity and frequency, either in person (NYC) or via e-mail and phone. Have a completed or partial manuscript on which you'd like thorough written comments? An outline that needs shaping? Amorphous ideas that you're eager to explore one-on-one? A hankering for a private class in the genre, with tips on memory mining, craft exercises, and readings from published personal storytellers (like Joan Didion, Lucy Grealy, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank McCourt)? Come on down! Group workshops are also available—as dictated by demand, location, and schedules. Spread the word. Have a loved one who is yearning to tell his or her story? THE VERTICAL PRONOUN also makes a great gift! Let's work together, to chip away at that block of marble and find the statue emerging.