The Bowers House Writers Guild offers encouragement to local and visiting writers whose writing covers a range of genres: local and personal history, personal memoir, adult and juvenile poetry, book reviews, journalism, newspaper and magazine articles, short stories, essays, how-to books, fiction and non-fiction. The Guild provides members the opportunity to meet writers with similar interests, to meet together, to become good friends or to enjoy the company of friendly acquaintances.
SAMPLE AGENDA
• Meeting Outline
Writer’s Craft – discussion and exercise
More about Show Don’t Tell See Article “Thought Verbs”
Discussion of writing terms (Jargon)
Member’s projects
What are you doing – how is your progress – how can we help?
Readings – members share new work
Group Projects – Discuss potential projects
General discussion – writing topics, somewhere between Once upon a time and They lived happily ever after.
Next Month
Suggestions for next meeting and future meetings