Let's Meetup to Discuss Writerly Things and to Share Work!

Hey BWC-

Hope everyone is making time for their writing! It’s such a busy time of year and keeping each other on track with our writing goals is one of our biggest missions. It’s why our meetups are so important. We had a great planning workshop earlier in the month, and I have been busy journaling and organizing my home office.

Do you need help getting back on track with your writing or need to improve your writing techniques?

If so, then this meetup is for you!

We will discuss how to fan the flame when you feel like you’ve lost your writing spark and begin our series on writing techniques to help you improve your skills.

It’s going to be a great meeting and I know you don’t want to miss it!

In addition to the presentation, we'll have time for Reading like a Writer if anyone would like to bring something in to share.

READING LIKE A WRITER: We have time for 2-3 volunteers, five minutes each, to share something they have read by an author that represents a great writing technique. It can be an author who writes excellent dialogue, has a unique writing voice, uses thought-provoking imagery, is gifted with world-building, etc. This segment is much loved by our group and is based on the techniques/information learned through the book Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose. Please message Dennis Lavoie or me if you have any questions about this.

READING YOUR WORK: As usual, we will wrap up our meeting by sharing some of our work. If you haven't shared anything in a while or are new to the group, please consider bringing something in to read. Many of us are working on projects or have been busy. However, as writers, we must continue to write something new, even if it's to exercise our writing muscle. As always, these short pieces of work (1,000 words or less- give or take a few) can be from a writing prompt, a couple of pages from your current project, poetry, journal, etc...if you write it, we want to hear it! PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR READING BEFORE THE MEETING TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN GET IT DONE IN THREE OR FOUR MINUTES!!!

Save the date for our next meeting on August 28th.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone this Thursday!

Until then, Happy Writing.

-L