Noble Pen Meeting

December 2nd, 2010
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

Talk about getting lost! Wallace Jefferson and Louis Hayes, both negroes, have wandered all the way to the moon!

The hapless pair entered lunar orbit late yesterday afternoon and finally landed on the surface of the moon several hours later. They plan to return later this week.

The incident is not a total tragedy. “We may want to talk with these negroes,” said NASA mission commander Deke Slayton. “Their mishap may just help us in our goal to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.”

—The Old Negro Space Program

Victories

CJ checked up out and may join the group when he has more time in the summer.

Tony’s Rouge Musician got rejected by Asimov’s, but what do they know? Actually, probably quite a bit.

Dylan got a critique for a short story for which he has been waiting for 10 months. Next time, he’s shooting for 12.

Ciuin is writing for the Artsiest Initiative against Romaphobia and anti-Tziganism. She will be helping with design and writing for their WWII holocaust website. In other news, I learned three new words today.

Six Noble Pen members submitted pieces to the Drabble contest.

News

J. N. Duncan has learned that people don’t always read the books they review on Amazon. Next, he’ll be telling me people don’t really like Bristol Palin’s dancing.

Blah, blah, blah, e-readers, blah, blah.

Upcoming Schedule

December 2nd
(2) Shannon
(2) Dylan
Educational- Nick

December 9th
(2) Tyree
(2) Dave
(2) Tony

December 16th
(3) Nick
(3) Ciuin
(3) Mark

December 23rd – Off.

December 30th
(3) Tony
(3) Shannon
(3) Bob

January 6th
(3) Kris
(3) Tyree
Educational Bit — Volunteer?

January 13th
(3) Kelly

Keep Writing, Penites.

Shannon

Noble Pen Meeting

November 18th, 2010
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

The story began several years ago at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family’s fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war.

NaNoWriMo

Is anyone out there Nanoing? If you are, reply to this email with your word count and tell us about your piece.

Victories

Dylan and I attended the ICON Writers Workshop. This was such an honor that two of the people who made it into the workshop failed to show up.

Tyree will be receiving a story from Joe Haldeman for Aoifen’s Kiss. Hopefully it will be as good as Robot Jox.

Ciuine was rejected by an Agent, but will never be by us.

News

Dark Highlands is a new bi-annual journal based in the Quad Cities. They are looking for Horror, Dark Fantasy, and Supernatural. http://www.darkhighlands.com/

Authonomy, a website created by Harper Collins has a ton of writing tips: http://www.authonomy.com/writing-tips/

From a site called “Best College Online” (What?) comes a list of 12 Essential Ted Talks for writers.

From the Onion AV Club, 30 books with fictional authors.

Upcoming Schedule

November 18th
(2) Nick
(2) Bob
(2) Dylan

November 25th – Off for Thanksgiving.

December 2nd
(2) Shannon
(2) Dylan
Educational- Nick

December 9th
(2) Tyree
(2) Dave
(2) Tony

December 16th
(3) Nick
(3) Ciuin
(3) Mark

December 23rd <— Should we meet or bump down?
(3) Tyree
(3) Shannon
(3) Bob

December 30th
(3) Kris
(3) Tony
Educational Bit — Volunteer?

January 6th
(3) Kelly

Keep Writing, Penites.

Shannon

Noble Pen Meeting

November 11th, 2010
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

–Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

Victories

George showed up one more time-to get some money owed him.

Dylan finished a commission. I had no idea you could do that with rutabaga.

Ciuin wrote 2000 words in one day, while tap dancing.

Tyree’s lesbian werewolf story will be coming out soon. Pun intended. And he got another story accepted this week.

Housekeeping

I am going to schedule new critiques on November 4th, so if you can’t make the meeting, email me with your request.

News

Be careful what you write about your old coworkers.

I’m going to call that good for news because Cory Doctorow is in town and ICON 35 is going to start in a few hours.

Upcoming Schedule

November 11th
(1)Tyree
(2) Ciuin
(2) Kris

November 18th
(2) Nick
(2) Bob
(2) Dylan

November 25th – Off for Thanksgiving.

December 2nd
(2) Shannon
(2) Dylan
Educational- Nick

December 9th
(2) Tyree
(2) Dave
(2) Tony

December 16th
(3) Nick
(3) Ciuin
(3) Mark

December 23rd <— Should we meet or bump down?
(3) Tyree
(3) Shannon
(3) Bob

December 30th
(3) Kris
(3) Tony
Educational Bit — Volunteer?

January 6th
(3) Kelly

Keep Writing, Penites.

Shannon