We are going to have people sign up for spots for the Crash Course in Play Writing Workshop. We will have a sign up sheet posted in the Undergraduate Office (where we met). We will hopefully have a more specific itinerary for that Workshop soon.
Next week Club English will have a visitor coming to talk about applying to grad school; I think most of our members are also part of Club English, but just in case…
On October 27th, during the regular meeting time, Professor O’Connor and Professor Seguin will be coming to talk to us about publishing. Both of them are published authors.
We are starting to compile a list of places that accept submissions for various kinds of prose and poetry. Keep looking around, and bring any new venues you find to the meeting. Right now it looks like we will be producing a digital and a hardcopy version of this.
For the next meeting, please bring any new places that accept submissions! We will be doing another writing exercise, and hopefully brain storming about November projects. See you all next Tuesday! Thanks to everyone who keeps showing up!
Coming soon: publication listings and the results of exquiste corpse.
Write!
Friday, October 9, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Speakers, Playwriting, Submissions
We are going to be having some speakers in the next few weeks. Hopefully an advertising professional, a script writer (separate from our playwriting workshop), a published author and professor and high school English teachers (in conjunction with Club English). Below is partly a recap, partly new. Check out the next two paragraphs for what is going on next week, and the fourth down for writing contest. Down at the very end is a secret :) ...
Thanks to everyone who showed up last meeting and double to anyone who read poetry! For the next meeting (October 6th, 6pm in 204 Satterfield) I am hoping to do some writing exercises, so that we start producing some new material. If you want to bring something you have already written, please make it short (twitter fiction, weird tales, six word stories, poetry, etc…).
For this meeting and the next one (October 13th, same time, same place) we will also be discussing places to publish, so start looking now for venues that publish whatever it is you write. If you are having trouble take a look at the Writer’s Market (a large book found in the library).
Nanoism (a site that publishes twitter fiction) is taking submissions for serials (five twitter fictions, that each stand alone, but also form a coherent story). Nanoism publishes at professional rates and they take all genres. It is a great place to test the water - my rejection letter was very nice :)
Here is the site with rules for serials.
And here is the site (again) for anyone who just wants to take a look.
We are also planning a CRASH WORKSHOP IN PLAYWRITING. This is for people who do not normally write plays. It is meant to be an introduction, so if it is a new genre to you, come and explore it! (yes, I know that is corny, but hopefully you get the idea). For anyone who already does write plays, come and help the rest of us! This Workshop will be on November 7th (a Saturday) on the 4th floor of the library in the Writing Commons from 10am-1pm. Please shoot me an email if you are interested -- the gentleman who is going to run this workshop is excited about it, so I would like to give him an idea of how many people will be there. (or, it would be nice if there were people there). So far I have one response.
Finally I hope that a few people got a submission into the national writing gallery. If not I think it is time we started talking about submissions, as well as our November projects. Hopefully the next two meetings will get us geared up for both.
The secret word is 'quixotic'.
Hope to see some of you in Cleveland tomorrow for the Gaiman talk and the rest of you on Tuesday. Remember: bring paper, pencil and publication research.
Write!
Thanks to everyone who showed up last meeting and double to anyone who read poetry! For the next meeting (October 6th, 6pm in 204 Satterfield) I am hoping to do some writing exercises, so that we start producing some new material. If you want to bring something you have already written, please make it short (twitter fiction, weird tales, six word stories, poetry, etc…).
For this meeting and the next one (October 13th, same time, same place) we will also be discussing places to publish, so start looking now for venues that publish whatever it is you write. If you are having trouble take a look at the Writer’s Market (a large book found in the library).
Nanoism (a site that publishes twitter fiction) is taking submissions for serials (five twitter fictions, that each stand alone, but also form a coherent story). Nanoism publishes at professional rates and they take all genres. It is a great place to test the water - my rejection letter was very nice :)
Here is the site with rules for serials.
And here is the site (again) for anyone who just wants to take a look.
We are also planning a CRASH WORKSHOP IN PLAYWRITING. This is for people who do not normally write plays. It is meant to be an introduction, so if it is a new genre to you, come and explore it! (yes, I know that is corny, but hopefully you get the idea). For anyone who already does write plays, come and help the rest of us! This Workshop will be on November 7th (a Saturday) on the 4th floor of the library in the Writing Commons from 10am-1pm. Please shoot me an email if you are interested -- the gentleman who is going to run this workshop is excited about it, so I would like to give him an idea of how many people will be there. (or, it would be nice if there were people there). So far I have one response.
Finally I hope that a few people got a submission into the national writing gallery. If not I think it is time we started talking about submissions, as well as our November projects. Hopefully the next two meetings will get us geared up for both.
The secret word is 'quixotic'.
Hope to see some of you in Cleveland tomorrow for the Gaiman talk and the rest of you on Tuesday. Remember: bring paper, pencil and publication research.
Write!
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