Southern Maryland Creative Writing Meetup

Bring a short selection you'd like to have reviewed. Plan to tell us what types of things you'd like feedback on.

Meetings are online while our realm is dealing with this plight. Check the meeting comments a few minutes before the meeting for the URL.

Come hone your skills with a writing prompt. See what others do with the same concept.

Meetings are online while our realm is dealing with this plight. Check the meeting comments a few minutes before the meeting for the URL.

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"Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion—that's Plot."

• Leigh Brackett
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Come join us for a round-robin discussion about some writing topic: skill, process, art, business, publishing, advertising, etc. Tell us what you think, learn what others think.

Meetings are online while our realm is dealing with this plight. Check the meeting comments a few minutes before the meeting for the URL.

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"Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything."

• Stephen King
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Come join us for a couple hours dedicated writing time, group brainstorming, and inspiration. Just write and stop thinking about writing.

Meetings are online while our realm is dealing with this plight. Check the meeting comments a few minutes before the meeting for the URL.

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One monk came up to me and gave me a teaching
which helped me for so many years.
He said,
"Pushing the wheelbarrow is easy
thinking about it is the hard part."

How true that was.

As soon as I stopped complaining,
as soon as I stopped thinking about it
and just pushed the wheelbarrow,
that wheelbarrow was lighter,
and there was no suffering anymore.
It was the thinking that was causing the suffering
whatever test you have in life,
stop thinking about it so much.
Just do it.

https://youtu.be/Qg3_5ifovoY?t=2310
Ven Ajahn Brahm