Next Noble Pen Meeting

November 3rd, 2016 at 7 pm

Scott’s Family Restaurant

1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

News

Whether William Shakespeare wrote all the works credited to him has long been a controversy, or at least a conspiracy theory.  Now some scholars are crediting Marlowe with co-authoring three plays.

Victories

Randy got two more rejections, bringing the response count to about half of his submissions.

Greg edited a lot, and applied most of the feedback from his last review.

Riley signed the paperwork for publication of a short story that was accepted a while back.  He edited and made good progress on his current story.

Education

A story where the main character knows what to do and does it easily makes for a boring read.  A dilemma is a choice where one must find the least-bad outcome. Dilemmas and obstacles are the meat of a story, and are what keep a reader going.  (Mentally) torture your characters.  Steven James discusses difficult decisions.  Here’s another discussion with examples.

Upcoming Schedule

Nov 3
Nick
Cassie
Andrea

Nov 10
Dakota
Greg
Open slot

Nov 17
Laura
Riley
Open slot

Nov 24
Thanksgiving – no meeting

Dec 1
Open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill