Next Noble Pen Meeting

October 17th, 2013 at 7 pm

Scott’s Family Restaurant

1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

News

Canadian writer Alice Munro wins the Nobel prize in literature.

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McDonalds is going to put books in kids’ happy meals for two weeks.

Victories

Cassie is writing a blog entry every day this month.  She had people from India and Israel checking it out.

Dylan was asked to write a monthly column about writing.

Jed now has 40k words on the Castalia story.

Education

In honor of the recent passing of Tom Clancy, Writers Digest reprinted a 2001 interview.  He seems to have an intuitive grasp of how to tell a story, and doesn’t give how-to advice, but some of his big principles are interesting.  One quote about what he learned from Hitchcock: “Suspense is achieved by information control.  What   you know.  What the reader knows.  What the characters know.  You balance that properly, and you can really get the reader wound up.”

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J. A. Konrath blogged a guest post by author Tom Keller, then added his ten rules for writers, and finished off with disclosure of how much money he has received from ebook sales.   He is a strong proponent of ebooks, and by being a strong writer he has made $1.5 million in five years.

Upcoming Schedule

Oct 17th
Nick
Rachel
Tyree

Oct 24th
Riley
Tyree
Jed

Oct 31st
Barbara
Tina
Aimee

Nov 7th
Riley
Tyree
Nick

Nov 14th
Cassie
Dylan
Jed

Nov 21st
Open slots

Nov 28th
Thanksgiving – no meeting

Keep Writing,
Bill