Monday Night Writes at Common Bond on Westheimer

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IMPORTANT: Please purchase something from Common Bond. It helps keep them very happy to see us coming back each week when we help take care of them in turn.

THE SCHEDULE:

* 6:45 - 6:55 PM: Arrival, chit-chat, purchase refreshments, intros, etc. 

6:55 - 7:00 PM: Announcements
* 7:00- 8:00 PM: WRITING (No talking, please. Hence the title of the group) 
8:00 - 9:00 PM: Finish writing, chit chat, introduce latecomers, etc.

Our mission is to provide a place for writers to sit together and work on their projects. It will amaze you how motivating it is simply to be in the company of your fellow writers! And, you will see progress, even if you only spend one hour per week on your writing. Whether you are in the brainstorming phase or working on your final draft, this is the group to get things done.

After the writing session is over, feel free to stay and keep writing or get to know one another. Common Bond is open until 9 PM on Wednesdays.

NEW - RESERVATIONS
We are submitting advance orders to Common Bond so that they can reserve seats for us. It is *NOT* required but if you are able to order in advance, it will help us ensure seating

NOTE
• ELECTRONICS - There may not be any available electrical outlets, so make sure your electronic devices are fully charged.
• ARRIVING LATE - It’s okay to arrive late but if you do please quietly take a seat and begin writing. You will have a chance to introduce yourself at the end of the session.

RESOURCES
• Writing Prompts! The Time is Now (https://www.pw.org/writing-prompts-exercises)
• Inprint Houston provides a variety of helpful resources for writers. https://inprinthouston.org/for-writers/resources-for-emerging-writers/

Prompts for 2/24/25:

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” wrote English Liberal historian and moralist Lord Acton in an 1887 letter to scholar and ecclesiastic Mandell Creighton about his concerns for political and religious leaders. This week write a short story that chronicles a character’s turn toward corruption after gaining a degree of power. You might decide to revolve the narrative around a lighthearted scenario with some humor, in which the corruption that results has relatively inconsequential stakes. Or you might set up a situation in which your character gains access or control over a significant position of authority, resulting in criminal behavior with far-reaching ripple effects. How do other characters respond to the newfound power of your main character? (https://www.pw.org/writing-prompts-exercises?genre=32)
In “Eat, Memory,” an essay published by Harper’s Magazine in 2017, author David Wong Louie, who passed away a year after its publication, wrote about his experiences enduring years of treatment for throat cancer. Radiation, chemotherapy, a gastrostomy feeding tube, and laryngectomy surgery all affected his lifelong love for eating food and drinking, and he discovered how his memories of time spent with family and friends were deeply tied to communal dining. Write a lyric essay composed of short vignettes of memories you have that are tied to food—whether preparing and cooking meals, celebrating while eating out at a restaurant, buying produce at the market, or recalling phases of favorite snacks shared with friends. Taken together, how do these memories reveal a larger portrait of how you’ve enjoyed or been nourished by time spent around food? (https://www.pw.org/writing-prompts-exercises?genre=37)

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