September Write Club Newsletter
 
Monday September 15th @ 6pm- Crafting Short Stories: Setting & Atmosphere
September 20th @ 10:30am- Write Club Presents: Gary and Rebecca Minder
Monday October 6th @ 6pm- Crafting Short Stories: Voice, Style, & Dialogue
Saturday October 18th @ 10:30am- Spooky Stories Meeting (see below)
Monday November 3rd @ 6pm- Crafting Short Stories: Revision & Polishing
Saturday November 15th @10:30am- Regular Meeting/Friendsgiving Potluck (see below)
 
 
 
Hey Gang!
 
Samm here with announcements and other good stuff.
 
  • Bobby's series  Crafting Short Stories continues Monday September 15th @6pm. It's never too late to jump in and learn new tricks! This month's topics will include: 
    • Setting and Atmosphere 
    • Give your story a setting to enhance mood, theme, and character development.
    • The role of setting, symbolism, and atmosphere in short fiction.
    • Using sensory details to create atmosphere.
  • Saturday September 20th @10:30am we will have a double guest appearance by Gary and Rebecca Minder. Gary is the author of The Education of Asa Paxton, a historical fiction YA novel. Rebecca is his publicist and director of Alabama Heritage Magazine. They'll be sharing pro tips on marketing and getting your name and book out there. You don't want to miss this one!
     
  • For our meeting on Saturday October 18th we're going to try a fun writing exercise suggested by a Write Clubber! For this meeting, please bring a story that is spooky, supernatural, or otherwise October-y.
     
  • Saturday November 15th's meeting will be a hybrid workshopping and potluck affair! I'll set up our usual roundtable on one side of the meeting rooms and tables for us to put dishes on in the other. This way, we can have a holiday Friendsgiving meal together and still have space to work on our stories. If we like doing a potluck with the room for workshopping, we can do it this way at December's Holiday Social too!
      
    That's all for now! See you soon!
 
 
 
 
 
Meeting Minutes from 8.23
 
Vincent: A conversation between Owen and Sara, who is distraught at the financial  troubles brought on by a boyfriend. 
 
Douglas: A writer works diligently to defeat his writer’s block and craft a story for the ages.
 
Tom: Fisher tracks Scutter in an effort to collect his share of the take and sever their partnership.
 
Kaitlyn: A crowd gathers to watch 16 fantastical beings participate in The Choosing Ceremony, where they choose the deity that will guide them into adulthood.
 
Charles: The Clue now available on Amazon! Chapter 5- Charlie Newton comes to consciousness in an alley with confusion as to how he got there in such a state.
 
Randy: A hacker stumbles across a security video featuring a violent murder. 
 
Hayley: Chapter 1- support group for serial killers. The narrator, a compulsive murderer, seeks a community of peers to counteract the loneliness of her dark hobby.
 
 
 
 
Currently Reading:
My dark Vanessa : a novel
by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Asked to help defend an older high-school English teacher with whom she had an affair at age 15, Vanessa struggles to choose between her romantic teen illusions and harrowing adult perceptions. 250,000 first printing. A first novel.
Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood

Takes readers into the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of the 1840s, who is serving a life sentence for murders she claims she cannot remember
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