Next Noble Pen Meeting

June 22nd, 2017 at 7 pm

Scott’s Family Restaurant

1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

News

Sometimes critique can be hard to take.  This essay discusses critics in politics and art.

Victories

Dylan finished and published Sand and Bone.  He is serializing Second Hand Dresses.  He got a story commission.

Education

Writers use sentences as building blocks for a story.  Good sentence construction helps the story flow for a reader.   With experience, good sentence structure can become intuitive to a writer, but untrained intuition sometimes goes astray.  This excellent explanation shows how sentences break down into their parts.

Another site gives many examples.  Here’s another tutorial on breaking down a sentence to see its structure.  It introduces diagramming as a useful tool.

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Laura
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Uriah
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Nick
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Keep Writing,
Bill