Monthly Archives: March 2026

The Noble Pen for April 2, 2026

We will meet at someone’s home at 7 pm, and the address will be in the distribution email. Use the contact form if you need me to add you to the distribution.

Discord and Meetups for Noble Pen

The Discord app provides another way for us to discuss. If you want to check it out, ask for an invitation link that will let you join. Also look for Creative Writing on Meetups.com for Cedar Rapids and make us look active there.

Writing Victories

Shannon is getting ready for his annual workshop and the anthology that comes out of it. Participating authors take a prompt to write from and the resulting stories are published in the anthology.

Reading Victories

Personal Victories

1. Tim and his wife are starting a business and found a programmer on Upwork to help them get it going.
2. Robyn is working to set up her freelancing business. This week, she applied for five jobs, received three invites for interviews. She wasn’t awarded any of the positions, but was excited about the interviews as that’s more of a response than she’s received so far.

Literary News

Shannon saw a piece on the television show “Macgyver” (the original series with Richard Dean Anderson) that explained they had scientists develop all of the gadgets and methods Macgyver used to get out of trouble. It was all real, but there was always one step or one key component that was left out so viewers couldn’t reproduce what they were seeing.

Schedule

Apr 2
Enzo
Dylan
Xander

Apr 9
Tim
Robyn
Shannon

Apr 16
Ciuin
open slots

Apr 23
open slots

Keep Writing!
Robyn

The Noble Pen for March 26, 2026

We will meet at someone’s home at 7 pm, and the address will be in the distribution email. Use the contact form if you need me to add you to the distribution.

Discord and Meetups for Noble Pen

The Discord app provides another way for us to discuss. If you want to check it out, ask for an invitation link that will let you join. Also look for Creative Writing on Meetups.com for Cedar Rapids and make us look active there.

Writing Victories

Shannon wrote for the first time in a month and finished a short short story.

Reading Victories

Personal Victories

Bill’s wife finally has a diagnosis for all of the symptoms she’s been having, and the Mayo Clinic has a treatment plan. Her condition is so rare that there are probably only three people in Linn County “walking around with it.”

Literary News

Xander did some reading about John Nash, the subject of the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” and discovered Nash was driven to madness by watching videos on quantum mechanics.

Schedule

Mar 26
Laura
Ted
Robyn

Apr 2
Enzo
Dylan
Xander

Apr 9
Tim
Robyn
open slot

Apr 16
open slots

Keep Writing!
Robyn

The Noble Pen for March 19, 2026

We will meet at someone’s home at 7 pm, and the address will be in the distribution email. Use the contact form if you need me to add you to the distribution.

Discord and Meetups for Noble Pen

The Discord app provides another way for us to discuss. If you want to check it out, ask for an invitation link that will let you join. Also look for Creative Writing on Meetups.com for Cedar Rapids and make us look active there.

Writing Victories

Reading Victories

Personal Victories

1. Xander received an email from one of his students complimenting him on his positive influence as a professor.
2. Bill LIKED a movie! He couldn’t remember the name, but the same scene was shown several times, all from different points of view.

Literary News

1. Adriana read an article about how romance novels are changing. Readers strongly prefer those books told in the first person and changing perspective between the heroine and hero. Traditionally, romances have been told from the third person POV.

Schedule

Mar 19
Xander
Ciuin
Robyn

Mar 26
Laura
Robyn
Ted

Apr 2
Enzo
Dylan
Xander

Apr 9
open slots

Keep Writing!
Robyn

The Noble Pen for March 12, 2026

We will meet at someone’s home at 7 pm, and the address will be in the distribution email. Use the contact form if you need me to add you to the distribution.

Discord and Meetups for Noble Pen

The Discord app provides another way for us to discuss. If you want to check it out, ask for an invitation link that will let you join. Also look for Creative Writing on Meetups.com for Cedar Rapids and make us look active there.

Writing Victories

1. Xander finally beat his “writer’s block” and produced a new YouTube video.
2. Robyn did more world building on my mermaid novel and have decided it will be a paranormal romance series.
3. Dylan finished a commission and got paid, all within 24 hours.
4. Ciuin pulled together a lot of background on her vampires’ economic history. How Riskell and Mirza earned and managed their wealth.
5. Bill pulled out his sci-fi story to work on it.

Reading Victories

1. Jeff finished “The Last of the Mohicans.” He has now started “Great Expectations” for the fourth time and is 80 pages in, so feels committed. He’s finding Pip an amusing narrator.

Personal Victories

Literary News

Schedule

Mar 12
Ted
Ciuin
Dylan

Mar 19
Xander
Robyn
open slot

Mar 26
Robyn
Laura
open slot

Apr 2
Enzo
open slots

Keep Writing!
Robyn