Newsletter of the Carrollton Creative Writers’ Club Issue Number: 5 Publishers: ADP\LDG Date: November 2007 The Carrollton Creative Writers Club is a support group of writers for writers. Our mission: To provide information and critique, and to facilitate the art of all forms of written expression. Meetings at Carrollton Cultural Arts Center: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 2nd and 4th Thursdays Contact: Mary Wilburn 770-832-0575 
�� Diana Black is running full speed ahead assembling the first page of CCWC’s web site. We should be able to take a peek at her progress sometime between the months of hearts and ides. We’ll be ooohing and aaahing in no time. �� December 15th is the last day of the Christmas sale at the Carrollton Creative Arts Center. December 17th is the last day to pick up your unsold items. (Or else). Let’s once again recognize the efforts of our members that enabled our participation in this sale. Thank you Richard Anderson, Diana Black, Bev Bruemmer, Mary Cunningham, Joann Dunn, David Green, Mary Wilburn, and Denise Williams. �� January begins a new year for our writers’ group, and the first time we will be recognized as official by the Carrollton Creative Arts Center. Our dues remain at $25 for the year and should be paid in January in order to continue your group member benefits. Beverly Bruemmer or Dave Green (for the evening group) can collect monies and give receipts. 2nd Tuesday of the Month Highlights: �� Claire Baker facilitated our meetings this month. She invited the very engaging author and playwright, Sybil Rosen to address our group. Sybil’s novel, Speed Of Light won the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award. She took us through her writing, revising, and publishing process with this novel and answered various questions regarding writing a play. This and other works of Ms. Rosen’s have been published in multiple languages worldwide. Thanks to Claire for such a fascinating guest. 2nd Thursday of the Month Highlights: �� Only two of our evening members were present. They spent time working on manuscript formatting using a word processor.
4th Thursday of the Month Highlights: �� Our group used this time to read current works aloud.
Tuesday Morning �� Diana Black read her introduction for WOOF, a non-fiction work which she is collaborating with Mary Cunningham and another author in Texas. She transported us all to a more innocent, yet more responsible time READER'S COMMENTS: It was wonderful to know the piece touched readers emotions-in a positive way, and that the ending was satisfying since I KNOW it was “dumb” before. It was also good to hear a passage could be made clearer, therefore not causing the reader to stop to figure out what was being referenced And to learn that changing a simple preposition can make all the difference. Thanks to everyone who offered their opinions. What a great opportunity to improve. �� Zan Marie Stedham read an advanced chapter in her science fiction work The Dawn and The Lion. We all enjoyed her progress with this novel. READER'S COMMENTS: Once again I am amazed at the insight of our group. The fact that my story is new to your eyes gives me a window into how readers will respond. The need for more varied sensory detail and more emotional content gives me a target as I continue to write. Thursday Evening Frame of Mind is hosting a book signing for Beverly Bruemmer, Joe Byrd, Mary Cunningham, Joann Dunn, and Mary Wilburn. Diana Black’s artwork will also be available at this event, December 8th and 9th Saturday, 10-5, Sunday, 12-5. Brian Corrigan will host the Dahlonega seminar the second weekend of February. This will be the last time he serves this function for this event, so catch him if you can. Mary Wilburn will be speaking in one of the break-out sessions along with Norman Chastain for Murder Goes South. They will address the pitfalls and paradoxes of getting published for the first time. Murder Goes South’s banquet is on Friday evening January 25th and Mary will speak at the sessions on Saturday, January 26th. http://www.usu.edu/journalism/faculty/sweeney/resources/ap.htm http://www.bu.edu/com/writingprgm/ap_styleguide1.pdf www.ask.com http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=124992397&blogID=3324 �� Congratulations to Richard Anderson. His story Trinkett’s Law, won third place in the Byline Magazine New Talent Short Story Contest. The editor commented, “. . . winners . . . started strong, sustained momentum and carried the judge through to the end.” and, “. . . in a short piece there is no room for flashbacks.” Richard commented that he had employed several flashbacks, so they must have been smooth enough to satisfy the judges. �� Joann Dunn has decided to start a blog. She considers this a practice blog as it contains a little bit of everything. She plan to create another that is more book related later. If readers leave comments, they then can leave links, which helps expansion. Joann gives credit for her bold move to Mary Cunningham. So let’s visit Joann’s blog site www.bloggisfugit.blogspot.com and leave some comments for her, a couple of minutes to lend support for our members helps our entire group. Speaking of Mary Cunningham, we all need to visit her blog site www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com. She has been featuring talents such as Heather Ingemar, author of A Slip Of Wormwood, and Kirby Larson with Hattie Big Sky. She gets lonely when no one pops in to say hi, so please do. Mary also shared a helpful site for a good marketing blog http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=124992397&blogID=3324 99926
See you next month. Please be kind enough to bring any incorrect data, mistakes, or omissions to our attention: amber_pickle@msn.com davidgreen@carrollcountyschools.com Thank you for your patience if they exist in this issue. PS. Sorry it's a bit late. Dave's fault completely. We will aim to send out newsleters by the end of the month for 2008!!! Please be assured we try our best. If you like what you see, let us know. If you have suggestions, we have a series of forms you'll need to fill out before you can speak to a person. If you don't like what you see, it just like a submission... We'll keep sending them until someone puts a contract on us! -Dave and Buster
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