Next Noble Pen Meeting
January 3rd, 2013 at 7 pm
Scott’s Family Restaurant
1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids
News
Welcome to Jed, who found the group.
Victories
Janice is researching steampunk.
Ciuin is proofing a 60-page document for her editor. And she has made up her 2013 reading list.
Education
What’s in a name? Writer’s Digest offers some rules for picking the names of your characters. Cynthia VanRooy give some more advice on names. Scott Nicholson has more on the subject. And while we’re thinking of names, consider whether you need all those characters to be named and developed.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ~Jim Morrison
Names are not always what they seem.” ~Mark Twain
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~John F. Kennedy
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields
I call everyone ‘Darling’ because I can’t remember their names. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
Upcoming Schedule
Jan 3rd
Nick (double slot)
Ciuin
Jan 10th
Tyree
Nick
Ciuin (?)
Jan 17th
Nick
Tyree
Open slot
Open slots
Keep Writing,
Bill