Next Noble Pen Meeting

Dec 15th, 2011  7 pm

Scott’s Family Restaurant

1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

News

No news is good news.

Victories

Kris found four readers for Oblivion.  One liked it so well they read it and returned a critique of 4 chapters within 2 1/2 hours.  She also supplied artwork for Shannon’s  story Call of the Beast.

Education

At the last meeting we discussed Eight-Point Arc defined by Nigel Watts, and the outline we used can be downloaded.  I think we agreed that it is not the only way a story can be structured, but most tend to follow it to some extent and it is a good planning tool.

Chila offers a link on close third-person writing and a better one that applies to more genres than the writer focuses on.

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about. ~ Alice Munro

Upcoming Schedule

December 15th

Shannon
Dylan
Nick

December 22th

Tyree
Bob
Dylan

December 29th

Shannon
Tyree
Ronda

January 5th

Kate
Aimee
Shannon

Keep Writing,

Bill