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Crescent Dragonwagon, your Fearless leader,
a working, much publisher writer |
The
daughter of two writers, CD has been a professional writer herself since
she was sixteen. She has always worked in many genres --- fiction,
non-fiction, for children, for adults, articles, cookbooks, short and
long --- and has won awards in most of them. The author of more than 40
published books, she's been
described as an “earthy, yarn-spinning woman” (Chicago Tribune)
whose work is “As delightful to read as it is to cook from… both
inspiring and practical” (Bon Appetit), “original,
heartfelt… exuberant” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), and “sensual,
aromatic … captivating.” (Gourmet Retailers). Her second novel,
THE YEAR IT RAINED, was a New York Times Notable Book, while her
children's book HALF A MOON AND ONE WHOLE STAR won the Coretta Scott
King Award and was a Reading Rainbow selection.
(Pictured left at the door of her old studio in Arkansas; photo by Susan
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a full listing of Crescent's published work, click
bibliography.
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And if you're curious, you can also answer the much-asked question
"Is that your real name?" with a
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Fearless Writing™:
experiential workshops, life-changing results |
Crescent developed her Fearless Writing™
workshop over fifteen years ago, and has taught it to hundreds of people
--- writers and otherwise --- in a variety of locations and venues.
Fearless grew out of her growing sense that the writers' conferences she
was often invited to speak at were out of sync with both the act of
writing and the needs of would-be or blocked writers.
Too, as a writer, friend of writer, and daughter of writers, she became
ever more interested in "the ways the forces of creation seem at times
to reveal themselves, and at other times hold back. " She began, she
says, to look at "how we can cooperate with these forces, at the
juncture of habit, craft, discipline, and just plain understanding how
writing works through experience... that it is never without
anxiety, but you can learn to tolerate that anxiety once you grasp why
it's there.." Fearless is, she says, is her take on a working map of the
creative process. "Maps don't tell you where to go or which routes to
take. But, once you learn to read them, they give a clear picture
of where you are, and an infinite number of possibilities:
you can alter direction, route, or method of travel. You can
bicycle or take the Concorde."
Students have called her work
and the
Fearless Writing™
experience, "energizing", "life-altering", "the beginning of a whole new
personal renaissance", and "inspiring." Noted one Fearless attendee on
her exit evaluation, " Crescent Dragonwagon brings everything she has to
everything she does. That's what makes her everything she is --- and
thankfully, she is generous about sharing that." CD's secret?
Dragonwagon quotes psychologist Richard Price. "You always teach
what you most need to learn. You are your own worst student."
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take Fearless
in Italy,
an adventure of writing and culinary/cultural
travel that unfolds lushly,
day by day
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about what
a Fearless is like
or find a schedule and
price-list.
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