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Noble Pen Meeting
September 3rd, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
In 1969, Steps, a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, won the National Book Award. Six years later, a freelance writer named Chuck Ross, to test the old theory that a novel by an unknown writer doesn’t have a chance, typed the first twenty-one pages [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
August 27th, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-T.S. Eliot
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
-Mae West
Victories
I finally broke down and joined facebook. This guy is my new friend.
Ciuin made a new friend too. I gather it was something [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
August 20th, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
August 13th, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It’s like when you’re a kid, the first time they tell you that the world’s turning, and you just can’t quite believe it cuz everything looks like it’s standing still. I can [...]
By day, Catherine Schaff-Stump is an English teacher at a community college. In the evening and on the weekends, not only does Catherine fight crime, but she also writes fiction of the fantastic. Her first novel, Hulk Hercules, Professional Wrestler, is due out in January, 2010. You can find out more about her and her [...]
Noble Pen Meeting
August 6th, 2009
Happy Chef, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read
–Mark Twain
If you’re going to tell a story through one character’s viewpoint, the first thing to do is take a step back and ask yourself which characters can offer [...]
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