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

Hey BWC-

Happy May everyone!!! I hope you are writing like crazy and/or planning an amazing project! Wherever you are in your writing journey, your fellow writers, would love to hear about what motivates you! Make plans to join us this Thursday for dinner and bring along your best advice on how you carve out time in your busy schedule to write and how you keep motivated!!!

Dennis threw out a great idea last month and I want to remind everyone to bring in their submissions this week! Our friendly contest is to see who can write the WORST opening line ever! Please bring in your worst opening line and be ready to share it with the group. I will ask attending members to vote anonymously on their favorite. We will have submissions this week and at our May 28 meeting. The winner will be announced at the end of our May 28th dinner. I cannot wait to hear them all!!!

In addition to the discussion, 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 May Meetings, May 14th & 28th.

Until then, Happy Writing.

-L