Describing the Indescribable: A Generative Writing Workshop with Sasha Ravitch

This event will take place online via Zoom. This class is approx. 120 min.

About this Presentation:

“I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.” Robert W. Chambers.

Describing the indescribable is no easy feat, but it is an aspiration shared amongst the witch and the writer of weird fiction, alike. We can learn from the masters of Cosmic Horror and New Weird how one might speak to, of, around, and about the litany of numinous experiences and relationships which arise in a magical practice. We can learn, yes, and we can find ample, actionable tools and inspiration in the strangeness of their language – as abstracted, experimental, or embodied as it presents itself to be. This generative writing workshop will utilize…