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Noble Pen Meeting, July 2, 2009

Noble Pen Meeting
July 2, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
–Mark Twain
Victories
Ian wrote another Convenient Truth [...]

News Flash: Facebook Group

News Flash!
Noble Pen Now on Facebook!
I’ve created a Noble Pen group on Facebook.  At this time I’ve invited about ten people that were in my profile to join the group, however I may have missed others.  If I missed you, I’m apologize, but would like to invite you to join the group.  If you know [...]

Noble Pen Meeting, June 25, 2009

Noble Pen Meeting
June 25, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as [...]

Noble Pen Slogan Contest

Noble Pen Slogan Contest
The Entries
Okay, here are the entries for the Noble Pen Slogan Contest.  We’ll vote on these at Thursday’s meeting.  The winner will be immortalized on the website with their entry displayed prominently on every page!

Becky:

Playing God for over a decade
Come explore the only socially acceptable form of schizophrenia!
Ink in our veins, blood [...]

June 18, 2009: Noble Pen Meeting

Noble Pen Meeting
June 18, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
–Samuel Johnson
Don Murray, a former editor at Time, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of 10 books on writing says that at age 73, he is still a young writer [...]

News Flash: Twitter

News Flash!
Noble Pen Now with Twitter!
I’ve added two new features to the site:

As you will notice in the posts, there is now a “Share / Save” button.  You can use this to share our posts with your firends on Facebook, Twitter, Redit, and many other social networking sites.
You can receive updates to the site automatically [...]

Noble Pen Extra, Flash and Scott

Noble Pen Extra
Don’t be frightened of cliches.
– Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies
Flash Fiction Entries

We had three entries for the flash fiction contest. The entries can be found at http://shannonryan.net/user/ with the usual username/password (noblepen/nblpn). Thank you to everyone who participated. Remember, the best way to make yourself a better writer is to write more often.

A Thank You Note [...]

June 11, 2009: Noble Pen Meeting

Noble Pen Meeting
June 11, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
Act without doing;
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.
–Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Verse 63
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find [...]