A Passel of Fun and Curiosity

For awhile now I’ve had this crazy idea of combining a book-making and a writing workshop in one. I think it appeals to me because in some small way it feels like an antidote to the increasing digitization of the written word. Only problem was, I hadn’t the foggiest how to make a book.

Enter Meghan Stotko. If she had a website, I’d link to it, but she doesn’t, so I won’t (but you can learn a bit about her here). Meghan makes incredibly beautiful books from scratch, using the coptic stitch, which was invented by the Copts of Egypt to convert the scroll into a codex around 200 AD. And thus the modern book was born.

So. Here’s what we’ve got. A morning of book making, and an afternoon of exploring what I like to call “curious writing” with yours truly. I like the double entendre, because I think a lot of really good writing is curious in nature, and I think it is so because it evolved from the writers’ curiosity.

I’m fired up about this workshop, and so is Meghan. It’s gonna be a passel of fun and curiosity, and you should come.