Noble Pen Meeting

March 3rd, 2011
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

The idea that all ideas are partly true, partly false, and partly meaningless is partly true, partly false and partly meaningless.
–Hagbard Celine

Victories

John checked us out.

Ciuin finished her class, “the EU.” She also finished the poetry section of her creative writing class–poor, poor Ciuin.

Tyree is done with Kafka–poor, poor Tyree.

Dylan is done with two commissions–that’s not too bad actually.

News

Name of the Wind author Patrick Rothfuss has offered to give part of his next novel’s royalties to Nathan Fillion, so that they can buy Firefly from Fox.

Eric at Pimp My Novel explains that publishers like money.

Upcoming Schedule

March 3rd
(6) Ciuin
(6) Mark
(6) Nick

March 10th
Dlyan
Nick
Kelly

March 17h
Shannon
Tony
Kris

March 24nd
Bob
Ciuin
Educational

Keep Writing, Penites.

Shannon

Noble Pen Meeting

February 24th, 2011
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin set out for work on the Thursday morning, he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippopotamus.
-Opening sentence, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, David Nobbs

Victories

Sams’s Dot is now on Smashwords and selling electronic editions. Welcome to the year 2000, too bad it’s 2011.

Ciuin’s materials arrived from Montreal and is on to some serious translating.

Dylan submitted a story to an anthology, for which he will no doubt be arrested.

News

J.A. Konrath has an interesting article on ebook pricing.

The Daring Novelist has written about pesky dialog tags.

Upcoming Schedule

Feb 24th
(6) Tyree
(6) Bill???
(6) Shannon

March 3rd
(6) Ciuin
(6) Mark
(6) Nick

March 10th
Dlyan
Nick
Kelly

March 17h
Shannon
Tony
Kris

March 24nd
Bob
Ciuin
Educational

Keep Writing, Penites.

Shannon

Noble Pen Meeting

February 17th, 2011
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

As far as I was aware, he’d never shot the gun on the job. But he kept it ready. When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he considered me old enough now not to shoot myself by accident, and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose.
–Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

Victories

Kelly is American. Her name changed, and she now owes $45,000 on the national debt.

Nick wrote the end of his Medieval epic, which takes place in Milwaukee.

Tony saw his first short story in print, a sure side effect of over-medication.

Tyree is working on two new publications: one involving procedural investigation in space and a second devoted to paranormal activity. Looks like it’s time to dust off my stories about Ecto Hardbullet, Interplanetary Ghost Detective.

News

You can make it by self-publishing.

The shitbird cometh.

Upcoming Schedule

Feb 17th
(6) Tyree
(6) Bill
(6) Bob

Feb 24th
(6) Dylan
(6) Bill
(6) Shannon

March 3rd
(6) Ciuin
(6) Mark
(6) Nick

March 10th
Tyree
Nick
Kelly

March 17h
Shannon
Tony
Kris

March 24nd
Bob
Ciuin
Educational

Keep Writing, Penites.

Shannon

Noble Pen Meeting

February 10th, 2011
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

The three of us, and millions of primitive hew-mans… I like those odds.
-Quark, Deep Space Nine, “Little Green Men”

Victories

Hopefully, by this point, Kelly as been sworn in as a US citizen. If everything has gone right, congratulations. If, however, something has gone wrong, you’ll be missed.

Dylan has another commission, a repeat customer, and yes that was a double entendre.

News

An interesting video on the importance of mastery.

Behold, seven ways to eliminate passive sentences.

Upcoming Schedule

Feb 10th
(5) Mark
(5) Tony
(5) Kelly

Feb 17th
(6) Tyree
(6) Kris
(6) Bob

Feb 24th
(6) Dylan
(6) Bill
(6) Shannon

March 1st
(6) Ciuin
(6) Mark
(6) Nick

Keep Writing, Penites.

Shannon