The Noble Pen for Oct 29, 2015

Next Noble Pen Meeting

October 29th, 2015 at 7 pm

Scott’s Family Restaurant

1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

News

A court sided with Google Books in the fair-use issue.  Google has now scanned about one fourth of all the books they think exist.

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The balance between e-books and print may be stabilizing.

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There is a Twitter hashtag for Noble Pen.  If you are interested in tweeting quotes, victories, etc., or posing questions use   #NoblePenCR  but be aware than some don’t do Twitter.

Victories

Ciuin’s ghost hunting article is out in City Revealed and she turned in another article for them.  She is starting on a nine-page midterm.

Dylan moderated a panel at ICON and sold some books there.  The anthology that was to contain one of his short stories was cancelled.

Erin did her critiques under difficult circumstances.  She continues to expand her outline.

Cassie put out another article on her website and newsletter.  She has booked an author event for Until Death Do Us Part in February.

Benjamin got an agreement to write blogs and advertising articles for a business.

Education

Your writing effort can get intense, but sometimes pushing harder doesn’t work.  This article offers some tips on how to enjoy life and restore your productivity.   Here’s another article on productivity.  Sometimes you can’t get up the motivation to work hard, and this article helps identify why.

Upcoming Schedule

Oct 29
Benjamin
Dylan

Nov 5
Nick
Aime W.

Nov 12
Ciuin
Laura

Nov 19
Erin
Open slot

Nov 26
Thanksgiving – no meeting

Dec 3
Open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill