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June 2022 Writers Roundtable
“Endings: The Good, The Bad, The Sequel” – This month’s meeting will look at our favorite and not so favorite endings in an effort to better understand what works, what doesn’t work and how an ending can be used to finish telling one story and at the same time set the stage for a sequel. Moderated by Las Vegas authors Eric James Miller and Greg Blake Miller. Continue reading
Find out more »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
Find out more »April 2022 Writers Roundtable
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 from 6-7:30PM Writers Roundtable (A monthly, informal discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.) April’s topic: “The Hazards of Narrative Thinking” Narrative imposes necessary and compelling form on reality, but it can often lead to oversimplification in literature, media, and everyday discourse. Figures are easily slotted into traditional narrative roles, conflicts are simplified and heightened, and emotional responses, rather than being evoked, are provoked as if by a sort of narrative algorithm. This can…
Find out more »March 2022 Writers Roundtable
Learning By Doing – Las Vegas authors will be sharing and discussing the hard lessons they’ve learned in their writing careers and strategies they plan to use in their future marketing and publishing endeavors. Continue reading
Find out more »February 2022 Writers Roundtable
Share the Love – working authors will share and discuss their favorite online and offline resources that help and inspire them in their writing careers in an informal Zoom meeting hosted by Writers of Southern Nevada at 6PM on February 8, 2022. For more info, go to www.nevadawriters.org
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January 2022 Writers Roundtable
How to plan for you success in 2022. Setting goals, guardrails and measurable milestones for working authors with discussion afterwards. Presented by Eric James Miller. 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 – June 2021
Writing About REAL People – the legal do’s and don’ts, can’s and can if’s of writing about real people in non-fiction and fiction. Continue reading
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