Reminders, More Speakers and November Madness

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!

Really Short Fiction Links

Okay, I hope everyone is excited for our first ever Writing Workshop (10:00 am on the 4^th floor of the Library (the Writing Commons) on Saturday, September 19^th). Bring food if you can. Bring writing (a short story, a chapter, 5-6 poems), and try to bring copies (around 10 should work). I’ll work on doing this through the department in the future. If you need me to print them send them to me by no later than Friday night; everyone should have my email.

Here are the links that I said I would put up:

Weird Tales – a magazine, which is sponsoring a very specific kind of short story: One minute Weird Tales. Look under latest videos on their home page.

http://www.weirdtales.net

Nanoed – A Twitter-zine (fiction up to 140 characters)

http://twitter.com/nanoed

This one is their submissions page:

http://nanoism.net/

Thaumatrope – Another Twitter-zine (see above)

http://twitter.com/thaumatrope

Flash Fiction Online – Short stories of any genre in under 1,000 words

http://www.flashfictiononline.com

Brain Harvest – Weird Science Fiction and Fantasy in under 750 words.

http://www.brainharvestmag.com

For the next meeting, Tuesday September 22^nd at 6:00 in Satterfield 204, bring a Twitter fiction (a short story in under 140 characters). Examples can be found at two of the links above. Takes some time to look around these sites. All except Weird Tales are fairly new venues, they all have their submission guidelines and all of them have very short fiction, so it won’t take too much time.

I am also going to include a link to the writing podcast I listen to. It’s done by three successful authors and while they write genre fiction, I think it could be very useful to everyone. Here is Writing Excuses:

http://www.writingexcuses.com

Let me know if I have forgotten anything. Hope to see all of you Saturday!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Writer’s Bloc Blog!

I wanted to post a couple of links to some of the projects we talked about at the meeting:

• The National Writing Gallery – http://www.galleryofwriting.org/
  
• National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – http://www.nanowrimo.org/
  
• The Cleveland Library Reader’s and Writers Series (or “Yay! Neil Gaiman is coming to Cleveland!”) - http://writersandreaders.cpl.org/schedule.html
  

And here again is what you will want to bring to the next meeting:

For the next meeting please bring a couple pages of writing. These can be excerpts from longer pieces or stand alone flash fiction. Try to bring something you have worked on recently (over the summer or last semester); also try to keep in mind what you are trying to do with the piece. The purpose will be to get to know everyone’s style and genre. Keep it around 1000 words max.

If you have not been writing recently (or don’t have anything at hand that you think is appropriate) then write 500-1000 words about a city. It can be any city, real or imagined, in any time, somewhere you’ve lived or only seen in pictures. Give it characters or just describe it.

If you decide to use the writing prompt try using the comments section below to bounce ideas around.

Finally here are the next two meeting times, both at 204 Satterfield:

Wednesday September 9th at 6:30pm
Tuesday September 15th at 6:00pm

Have a good week! Write!