Next meeting: Monday June 21

We’re carrying over the assignment from this week, since almost NO ONE showed up. I’ll take it personally if that happens on June 21!

Got a complaint about the schedule? Show up and tell us. Otherwise, hold your water.

Assignment:

We’ll meet at Café Caturra on Pump Road @ 7:30pm – wine, food, coffee, none of the above, all of the above. Your pick.

The exercise: a springboard off of the writer’s-block discussion. To wit, let’s experiment with genre-bending.

If you write non-fiction most of the time, bring us a short story, or the outline for one.

If you write more fiction than non-, bring us a 300-500 essay or profile piece.

And let us know if the genre-bender gave you blockage, or freed up flow.

As lagniappe (for you, for us, your choice ;>), take a run at an exercise from one of my favorite mystery writers, Randy Wayne White: write either

• the dust-jacket copy for your about-to-be-published book
• the 10-years-from-today About the Author copy for your upcoming book (assume you’ve published at least one book before this one)

See you on Monday the 21st!

Agenda for October 19 Meeting

- Roll Call / Goals check (approx 30 minutes)

-Group discussion about breakout groups – goal is to get people into groups of 5 or less that focus on the area they are working towards.

-Discuss various types of groups

-Discuss group rules/roles

-Break out into groups (Approx 30 minutes)

-Group introductions

-Group discussion

-Freewriting/socializing/networking (approx 60 minutes)

-oneword.com exercise

-establish ground rules (talking, etc.,)

-assign peers/mentors?

 Future Meetings – Follow the same agenda? (Roll Call/Goals, Group discussion, Breakout Groups, Freewriting?)

Website Work

-Design goals

-Content ideas

-Public and private areas

-Division of labor (assign responsibilities based on time/skill)

 

Long Term Club Goals

-Broader social reaches?

-Facebook Fan Page?

-Twitter Account? – done by CDB

-Interact with other writing groups?

-Publish some sort of writing group publication?

-Does the entire club have a goal or mission?

    -How big is too big?

   -Given the large number of people drawn to social media and creative events in the RVA area, it is concievable that WriteClub could swell to fifty or so regular attendees. Do we have any plans in place for how to deal with that?

-Do we want to continue to move the locations or pick one place?

Future dicussion ideas?

-Guest speakers? Pulling speakers from within the group? Hand out writing prompts and have people volunteer to read them?