Next Noble Pen Meeting

July 28th, 2011  7 pm

Scott’s Family Restaurant

1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

News

We had fun with the paragraph contest.  Eight entrants read their paragraph and we discussed after each one.  Voting was close, but Dylan edged out Kris to win a book about writing short stories (to be delivered next week).

Victories

Dylan redrafted 15 chapters of Flight in one week.

Tony finished another chapter of St. Lucy.

Education

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Shannon recommended this short bit of advice on the benefit of varying your sentence lengths:
http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/09/this-sentence-has-five-words/

Upcoming Schedule

July 28 th

Shanna
Kris
Tony

August 4 th

Tony
Nick
Dylan

August 11 th

Kris
Ghish
Dylan?

August 18 th

Open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill