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Upcoming Meeting: October 2021 – Spooky Stories
Our next meeting is this Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6:30pm. We will once again have a hybrid meeting – in person at the Genecov Room as usual – and online at our normal Zoom meeting room. This week we are all reading our own Spooky Stories for the Halloween meeting. Please bring a story…
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Upcoming Meeting: September 2021– Speaker Jayna Morrow on “Tropes and Hooks in Market Fiction”
Texas romance author Jayna Morrow has been creating imaginary worlds since a young age. As an elementary school teacher, Jayna juggles the demands of molding young minds and raising two teenage daughters. Jayna is a member of the East Texas Writers Association and enjoys presenting workshops for local writers. She also loves hearing from readers…
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Author: Delia Latham
Writing Heaven’s touch into earthly tales, Delia Latham puts her characters through the fire of earthly trials to bring them out victorious by the hand of God, His heavenly messengers, and good, old-fashioned love. You’ll always find a touch of the divine in her tales of sweet romance. Delia and her husband Johnny live in…
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Author: Dion McInnis
Dion McInnis states that he has been a photographer since six, a writer since 12 and a poet since birth. A native Texan who has spent the vast majority of his life in the Houston area, he has followed several career paths as a fundraiser, university administrator, photographer, public speaker, author, consultant and instructor of…
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What makes a Character
Feelings. Fears. Hopes. Dreams. Memories. These are what make a person. The life and blood of a story- the fictional characters- should connect to the human condition so well that, if written well, it’s easy to forget that they are fictional. Therefore, an author needs to understand every aspect of their characters. If this person…
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Show Your Boot Camp Colors
It’s time to gear up for boot camp. 🙂 Let the world know you’re proud to be a member of the East Texas Writers Guild and you’re serious about your writing with one of our fabulous new T-shirts. Our shirts are a unisex style. The material is a heavier weight 50/50 cotton/polyester blend which should…
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Your Life…the unending source of inspiration
You can’t create out of a vacuum; your life experiences provide you a never-ending source of inspiration for story lines, characters and their mannerisms, locations, scenes, and so on. Accessing your life’s experiences will inspire nonfiction and fiction, poetry and essays, correspondence and journal entries. (Since I am new to ETWG, I am sharing this…
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NETWO Spring Writers Conference
The Northeast Texas Writers Organization (NETWO) will host its annual spring writers conference on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at Northeast Texas Community College in Mt. Pleasant. The one day event will feature presenters from various fields of writing and publishing as well as a short story contest. Among the presenters are award-winning daytime personality Brad…
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PASSAGES
This poem by ETWG member, Juanita Fletcher, won an Honorable Mention in the 2018 Writer’s Digest Writing competition. Congratulations, Juanita! PASSAGES I called to my children and they answered me Then went about being what they wanted to be The winter rains came and the summer burned bright The long breeze of autumn and the…