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Musings on Litt-World 2009

11/9/2009

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Litt-World 2009 is over.  Last week I:
  • pondered the implications for my WIP (work in progress) of novelist Davis Bunn’s workshops on writing the breakout novel.
  • took avid notes on the process of editing from a gifted Filippina editor, Yna Reyes.
  • lined up three possible workshops where I can teach skills to Africans who want to write for the children in their communities, including one in Kisumu, Kenya, the heart of last year’s post-election violence.


  • discovered interest in my HIV story “God Loves Me When I Hurt” from publishers in India as well as Burundi, Ghana and Kenya.
  • found promising writers from Nigeria and Indonesia who are eager for on-line mentoring.
  • enjoyed catching up with former student Nerea Thigo of Kenya (pictured above).
  • laughed at the ingenuity of Czech publisher, Alexandr Flek, who set up a web-based club of Beta testers and donors to raise funds and field test his new translation of the Bible—essentially the first in 400 years.
  • marveled at the faithfulness of the publisher who prints 2-500 copies of significant titles for the small population who reads Croatian.
  • enjoyed the gasps of Africans seeing the Great Rift Valley for the first time.
  • ate way too much, stayed up way too late.
  • Wished I had a video camera to capture Robin Jones Gunn and Alice Lawhead really getting into it with the African singers and dancers who helped us celebrate the last night.

It was a stimulating and exhausting opportunity that won’t come again for another three years.
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The sun sets over the Great Rift Valley as our bus returns to Brackenhurst Conference Center from an outing to Lake Naivasha.
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