I'll be leading a two-week workshop in Assisi in August. Want to come? We'll meet in the afternoons, workshop the material students bring, and I'll give lectures on character, setting, narrative momentum, all kinds of stuff. Yes, it's not cheap, but it's Italy! Your fee gets you room and partial board, and me. In Assisi! Alongside other writers of various sorts, and painters too! What could be cooler? This will be a small class -- I'm trying to limit it to ten -- so think about it pretty soon...