Wednesday, September 11, 2013

September 9th Meeting Report


ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Las Vegas Book fair is coming up the end of October (the last Saturday, I believe). If you would like to volunteer at the book, please contact Gregory. We could use volunteers! If you want to display your book(s) at our book, also contact Gregory.

There is an officer meeting this Thursday (tomorrow). Email a member of the board if you have something you'd like to bring up.

We'll be doing some fun things on the fifth Mondays. This 5th Monday is a first chapter read. If you have a new book, one that you haven't read to the group before, get on the list for September 30th and bring your first 8 to 10 pages (whatever you can read in 10 minutes).

We will have a poetry group and a screenwriters group that will start meeting soon. Stay tuned for more details.

BRAGS:
none

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT:

"What's the purpose of the chapter, and did you get there?"

WRITING TIP from Jo Wilkins:

"THEN can be a word writers fall back on when they fail to write a transition. If Janice walks out the door, THEN she climbs the stairs, what happens in between the two actions. Using THEN lets the lazy writer leave out a transition between the character’s actions. Are the stairs directly outside Janice’s front door? Could she go anywhere else but up the stairs when leaving her apartment? Writing the character did this, then they did that, misses the opportunity to show where the characters move, or what emotions the character(s) have about the actions they take."

DID YOU KNOW?

Two terrific fiction oriented blogs are:

Storyfix.com by Larry Brooks and

Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine by Randy Ingermason


CALENDAR:

September/October 2013
Sun       Mon      Tues      Wed           Thur           Fri                 Sat
2
THE COFFEE HOUSE 
in Henderson
 6:30-8:30
3
4
5
6
7
8

9
Lutheran Community Church
6:30-8:30
10
11
12
HWG officer's meeting
6:00
13
14
15

16
THE COFFEE HOUSE 
in Henderson
 6:30-8:30
17

18
19
20
21
22
23
Lutheran Community Church
Workshop Critique
6:30-8:30
24
     25
West Side meeting at Skinny Dugans 6:30
26

27
28
29
30
 THE COFFEE HOUSE 
in Henderson
First Chapter Read
 6:30-8:30
Oct 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
THE COFFEE HOUSE 
in Henderson
6:30-8:30
8
9
10
11
12


Thanks for reading.
-Jenny Ballif, Newsletter Editor

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Las Vegas Writers Conference


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Annual Student Writing Contest

The Henderson Writers Group is serious about educating writers. We believe that our youth, specifically students, are the place to start. To further these efforts we have established this writing contest to award scholarships to the best of these budding authors.
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