Turning Swords to Pens, and Warriors to Writers

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By Michael Cieply The New York Times

SAN ANTONIO — In a bare-walled room at the main library here, Kris Rodriguez, a military veteran, was struggling to explain his confusion as a new writer.

A first step, Jenny Lumet suggested, might be to choose a format. Writing a novel might be different than, say, a cookbook, said Ms. Lumet, a screenwriter whose credits include “Rachel Getting Married” and who was there to offer help

     

“A book is pretty thick,” said Mr. Rodriguez, who, at 30, has served in both the Marine Corps and the Army. “I don’t know if I can come up with that much material.” He had started writing down thoughts as therapy, after a brain injury caused by a roadside bomb in Iraq left him temporarily paralyzed. “In the hospital I had lost my vision and my speech,” he said.

So began a free weekend workshop, the fourth in an open-ended series to which those schooled in war, some of them wounded, came to learn craft from writers for screen, stage and the publishing world. This session, on Friday evening, was organized by the Writers Guild of America, East Foundation, which sponsored an earlier workshop in San Antonio and two in Columbus, Ohio. Attended by about two dozen veterans, the session received support from the Wounded Warrior Project and the National Endowment for the Arts Operation Homecoming.

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