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1. POSTED BY Martin Golan  |  May 20, 2010 @ 7:23 am

   There’s also a third event for writers (and others) the next morning, Saturday, a panel discussion (of which I am a part) titled “From Fact to Fiction-and Back.”
   Here’s the info:
   The Fine Grind Coffee Bar in Little Falls will host a special edition of its Meet-the-Author series “Fine Print” on Saturday, May 22, from 10 to noon at its Route 23 location in Little Falls.
   Author Martin Golan will moderate and lead this discussion about how they’ve turned the “facts” of their lives into fiction. He will be joined by Montclair writers Roselee Blooston and Roger Sedarat.
   If there are literary characters who are as real to you as anyone you’ve ever met, you’ll enjoy the give and take of the panel discussion.
   Aside from discussing the strange transition of their life experiences into fiction, they will offer tips to aspiring writers who yearn to turn the book inside them into words on the printed page. And how it leaves only one question: which one is the more real, the facts of our lives or the fictions we make of them?
   Audience participation will be encouraged, and the coffee is great.
   (more info on the Baristanet Calendar, or my website: http://martingolan.com)
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   The Fine Grind Coffee Bar is located at 101 Newark-Pompton Avenue, Little Falls, NJ and offers a wide selection of fresh brewed coffee, desserts and other delicious and health-conscious menu items. The Fine Grind can be reached at (973) 837-0199 and has another location at 7A Paterson Avenue in Little Falls, NJ (973)339-9640.
2. POSTED BY walleroo  |  May 20, 2010 @ 10:05 am

   Here are other upcoming events for budding writers:
   How to Live with Failure. Writing is a tough life. You make no money, nobody respects you, and you spend most of your time alone, staring out the window between trips into the kitchen to get one more (the last, this is the last!) handful of beer nuts. This class will offer the depressed, overweight and financially challenged writer some succor and companionship with members of the same social caste.
   You Call This a Profession? This class is intended for seasoned, successful writers who realize that the moron who failed trig in high school and took a correspondence course in accounting now lives in a house three times bigger than yours, drives a Mercedes SUV and vacations in the south of France. It will offer workshops for preparing applications to law / med / biz school, and dealing with the post-traumatic stress of decades of abuse from waiters, day laborers, babysitters and other higher-status professionals. You’ll learn how to straighten your spine, speak without a stutter and keep your top lip from quivering.

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