Blog
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Lisa Holcomb, Our Past President and Current Secretary, Presents “How to Get Unstuck in Your Writing Journey” at our Feb, 12, 2024 Meeting!
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 anxiety. Procrastination: cure would be doing housework or something monotonous to motivate you to return…
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Creative Drawing and Writing Exercise Presented by Karen Petty in our January, 2024 Meeting!
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 churches from her theme of Santa Fe, New Mexico where she…
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2023 Christmas Party Enjoyed by All and Fun Gift Exchange!
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Thanksgiving was the Theme of our November, 2023 Meeting!
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.
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Author: April Coker
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 editor and novelist, but her dreams were derailed when…
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Author: Laura Bentz
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. So, after 6th grade, she didn’t write more…
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We Had a Fun and Entertaining October 2023 Meeting Telling Our Scary Stories!
We had a great October 2023 meeting sharing our scary and also inspirational stories. Here are some pictures from that fun night.
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September 2023 Meeting with Speaker Stephen Woodfin Investigates Coaching!
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 could take weeks, months, or years. Finishing your manuscript and saying: “I’m glad…
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Tracie Borum Dazzled Us with Great Advice on Being an Author and Writer at our August 2023 General Meeting!
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 for yourself first. Stay true to yourself…