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May 2022 Writers Roundtable
“It’s All About You!” – join us for our May Writers Roundtable as we give you the floor to discuss or ask about whatever topic is on your mind, or use your 10-15 minutes to read from new work and get feedback from the group. Is it therapy? Is it support? Is it critique? You decide! Continue reading
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Open Reading to share or discuss your new work. What are you writing? Why? And what do you hope to do with it? Continue reading
Find out more »Writers Roundtable – October 2021
Giving our characters a past worthy of telling is a trick many authors of successful and long running series use to add to the understanding of their character’s actions and motivations. We will be exploring our own intersections of memory and creativity to find those inciting incidents and launching points for story. This will be an open discussion hosted by Eric James Miller and Greg Blake Miller. Continue reading
Find out more »Writers Roundtable – September 2021
“WHAT’S IN A TITLE?” – How To Come Up with the Ideal Handle for Your Stories and Books – we will be talking about how titles lure the reader in, teasing a story with a title, and open a forum for authors to discuss the titles they are considering for what they are working on now (which they can read from if they wish, time permitting). Moderated by Greg Blake Miller and Eric James Miller Continue reading
Find out more »Writers Roundtable – February 2021
“Facts of Life – Putting Research Into Autobiography” – Terry and Ann Marshall are interviewed by Diane Taylor about their new book “Rendezvous To Remember”. Continue reading
Find out more »Writers Roundtable – December 2020
“Publishing During The Pandemic” #2 – with authors Paul Papa and Wayne Trumel. Come hear their challenges and successes publishing both fiction and non-fiction during this most auspicious time. Learn how they’ve turned adversity into opportunity! Continue reading
Find out more »Writers Roundtable – November 2020
Writing About The Week After The Day After Tomorrow – a writing prompt for the 2020 Election to be shared with other writers via Zoom the week after. Let’s get creative! Continue reading
Find out more »Writers Roundtable – July 2020
Writing about the historical times we are currently living through is a valuable way to organize our thoughts and emotions about what we all are experiencing. So join us on our virtual meeting and discuss and share your recent work about the pandemic, or discuss tips for finding narrative voice in troubling times. Continue reading
Find out more »Writers Roundtable – May 2020
This is a virtual writing workshop and discussion about writing about different places in space and time co-sponsored by Writers of Southern Nevada and Olympian Creative. Relative to historical fiction and non-fiction writers, authors of sci-fi and fantasy, as well as romance authors and authors who have characters who wish they were somewhere other than they are, or are exploring aspects of a post-pandemic world where “anywhere but here” might not be as easy to get to anymore.
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Writers Roundtable – March 2020
Join us for our monthly discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author. This month’s topic is “The Art and Anxiety of the First Page” and will be moderated by Greg Blake Miller of Olympian Creative. We’ll discuss these dual points of entry for our first pages, from the choice of narrative moments to the development of voice, and how the notion of “beginning” changes between the first words we write and the first words our readers read. Free for WSN Members. $5 suggested donation for non-members. Continue reading
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