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Mill Springs Academy's Writers' Workshop is a gathering of fellow college prep student artists working individually and collaboratively under an experienced writer's guidance to produce outstanding works of creative, innovative, and interesting fiction, poetry, journalism, prose-poetry, essays, humor, drama, experimental works, satire, and many other forms of inventive literary pieces.

The workshop's goals are to focus on new material; edit, improve, and redraft previous pieces; present works in progress to peers in an open and supportive writers' community; and publish student work in campus journals, as well as on a world-wide website.

Writers about Writing

"I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters in three segments, all at once, though they were to be run on three separate days. In between two of the segments, she asked me how many books I had written, and I told her. She said, "Don't you ever want to do anything but write?" "No," I said. "Don't you want to go hunting? Fishing? Dancing? Hiking?" And I said, "No! No! No! and No!" She said, "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster." (Isaac Asimov)

"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile." (Robert Cormier)

"Books aren't written--they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it." (Michael Crichton)

Successful Writers by Tom Robbins

"The only success with which a writer might be meaningfully concerned is how successfully his or her adjectives exude their flavors, his or her syntax drums out its cadence, his or her metaphors eternalize their phrases, or whether or not, when their nouns meet their verbs, the verbs yell out, "Gotcha, baby!" For the task of the writer is not to attain recognition or reward but to meditate upon our passing world and, through the working magic of language, awaken in the solitary reader a sense of wonder at that world."