Much Ado About Writing: 10 Lessons from Shakespeare Even after 400 years, Shakespeare is still popular. The Guinness Book of Records lists over 400 movie and TV shows that use Shakespeare’s plots. From Othello, we learn the perfect antagonist is in direct conflict...
How to Set Your Guilt Aside: What’s causing it? Visualization What can you do? The Different Kinds of “Stuck”: Inaction because everything has changed. No pressure which drives you in other directions. Proximity to an annoyance. Distraction which increases...
A creative drawing and writing exercise proved to be very helpful as we explored our artistic abilities. Got our creative juices flowing and our brains stimulated. These pictures of the event summarize what we learned. We sketched and then used paint to color our...
Fun Gift Exchange! We had a great Christmas Party this year as we exchanged gifts and ate delicious snack foods. Also, we brought a children’s book for needy boys and girls. The game we played for the gift exchange involved how much Christmas stuff we do. The...
Thanksgiving was the theme of our November meeting as we read our stories of thankfulness. Some stories were sad and some were funny but they all carried a positive message.
April Coker cannot remember a time when she didn’t want to be a writer. Her dream solidified when she discovered the book “Harriet the Spy” in her elementary school library. She went on to become her high school newspaper editor, with hopes of becoming a newspaper...
Laura since she was little, liked to write and illustrate her own stories as cartoons. At age ten, she wrote her first novel: “Mike and the Secret of Mount Tui.” Sadly, she got no encouragement from anyone. Even her teacher only proofread it for grammar and spelling....
We had a great October 2023 meeting sharing our scary and also inspirational stories. Here are some pictures from that fun night.
How Indie Writers Have Fueled the Rise of Book Coaching A working definition of the term Indie writer is “an author who works independently of traditional publishing.” Writing something consists of three stages: Thinking about or fixin’ to write about something. This...
Tracie Borum was our speaker at our General Meeting and dazzled us with an array of advice on how to be a successful author and writer. She is a full-time professor and has published seven novels; an eighth one is coming out soon. General Advice: Write selfishly and...
