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The Noble Pen for Mar 6, 2025

February 28, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

Ted convinced his mother to get on with writing her memories.
Adriana’s suggested prompt resulted in short submissions from 13 people. That’s 14 victories!
Ciuin is writing the final battle for Riskel’s story.

Schedule

Mar 6
Jeff
Ciuin
Kerris

Mar 13
Laura
Ted
Shannon

Mar 20
Enzo
Robyn
open slot

Mar 27
open slots

Apr 3
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Feb 27, 2025

February 21, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

David finished a new chapter that he had been stuck on.
Ciuin worked at revising to add Lucy in her story.
Ted is at the halfway point in the rewrite of his novel.
Adriana wrote a new chapter.

Schedule

Feb 27
Ciuin
Exercise for all to write before meeting

Mar 6
Jeff
Ciuin
Kerris

Mar 13
Laura
Ted
Shannon

Mar 20
open slots

Mar 27
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Feb 20, 2025

February 14, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

Sue may be writing a business newsletter for a company.

Schedule

Feb 20
Jeff
Enzo
Ted

Feb 27
Ciuin
Exercise for all to write before meeting

Mar 6
open slots

Mar 13
Laura
open slots

Mar 20
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Feb 13, 2025

February 7, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

I think I forgot to ask for victories, so we’ll catch up next week.

Schedule

Feb 13
Adriana
Shannon
Ciuin

Feb 20
Jeff
Enzo
Ted

Feb 27
open slots

Mar 6
Laura
open slots

Mar 13
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Feb 6, 2025

January 31, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

Shannon will do a reading at an event at Mirrorbox Theater. He and Randy are scheduled to do another reading at Half Price Books.
Ciuin has still more beta readers for Chessmaster.

Schedule

Feb 6
Jeff
Shannon
Robyn

Feb 13
Adriana
Shannon
open slot

Feb 20
Jeff?
open slots

Feb 27
open slots

Mar 6
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Jan 30, 2025

January 24, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

Shannon wrote a chapter over the weekend.
Ciuin has three beta readers for Chessmaster.

Schedule

Jan 30
Robyn
Scott
Ciuin

Feb 6
Jeff
Shannon
open slot

Feb 13
open slots

Feb 20
open slots

Feb 27
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Jan 23, 2025

January 17, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

Stacie submitted Gardens to six publishers and twenty-seven agents.
Shannon’s reviewers requested a sequel to Medium Roast.
Robyn wrote an article for the Marion Neighbors magazine.

Schedule

Jan 23
Enzo
Robyn
Scott

Jan 30
Robyn
open slots

Feb 6
Jeff
open slots

Feb 13
open slots

Feb 20
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Jan 16, 2025

January 10, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

With help, Ciuin figured out some things in her word processor and got her files sorted out.

Schedule

Jan 16
Randy
Robyn
Ciuin

Jan 23
Enzo
Robyn
open slot

Jan 30
open slots

Feb 6
open slots

Feb 13
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Jan 9, 2025

January 3, 2025Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

David wrote (a little bit) and promised to write more.
Shannon got feedback from a beta reader.
Ciuin rearranged her writing space for better inspiration and efficiency.

Schedule

Jan 9
Ciuin
Robyn
Jeff

Jan 16
Randy
Aime
Ciuin

Jan 23
open slots

Jan 30
open slots

Feb 6
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill

The Noble Pen for Jan 2, 2025

December 25, 2024Newslettersbhart

Next Meeting

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.

Victories

I guess we were all too busy to make victories this week.

Schedule

Jan 2
Aime
Robyn
Shannon

Jan 9
Ciuin
open slots

Jan 16
Randy
Aime
Ciuin

Jan 23
open slots

Jan 30
open slots

Keep Writing,
Bill