Synchronicity and Sensibilité

I’ve been invited to speak to the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club on June 22nd. I’ll be at Book Passage in Corte Madera, just north of San Francisco, from 2-4pm. I’m really excited to be talking to other writers. If you’re in the Bay Area, please come and let others know. This is the advertising that’s going out:

A Talk by Bay Area Novelist, Molly Dwyer

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.—Goethe

SYNCHRONICITY IS MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCE, an inexplicable paralleling of inner and outer events, and there’s usually a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow—especially if you’re a writer. Committing yourself to a story can awaken synchronicity. Mysterious coincidences begin to occur, forming a fragile, but identifiable structure of guidance and inspiration that can lead to unforeseeable incidents, meetings, and magic—both inside and outside the confines of your manuscript. Molly will share how she learned to recognize and respond to synchronicity, and how it helped her discover deeper truths as she researched her newly released novel Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein, about the life of Mary Shelley.

MOLLY DWYER has been a transformational educator for more than fifteen years, facilitating workshops and teaching English composition, creative writing, and literature classes in community college. Her first writing class was at UC Berkeley with the Irish poet laureate, Seamus Heaney. Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein is the fruit of over a decade of research. Molly’s second novel on the Romantics, The Appassionata, is set in the 19th century Paris of Liszt and Chopin.