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Writers Roundtable – October 2021
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 from 6-7:30PM
Writers Roundtable
(A monthly, informal discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.)
October’s topic: “Using Memories for Sequels” – how the cherished things in our characters’ lives tell their story and yours.
We will be talking about how memory can be used to spark creativity,
and how we can make our character’s memories sequel worthy.
There will be time for those in attendance to
READ SOMETHING FROM YOUR CURRENT WORK,
this time in relation to how it explores the past.
(moderated by Eric James Miller and Greg Blake Miller)
This will be another virtual meeting via Zoom.
Passcode: 626389
(FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!)
Writers Roundtable – March 2021
Writers Roundtable
(A monthly, informal discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.)
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 from 6-7:30PM
“Doubles Partners: the Editor and Writer as a Creative Team”
Join award-winning writer and editor Greg Blake Miller for a discussion
of the art of editing, being edited, and the nature of editing
as a mutual creative process. This is a look inside the exhilarating process
of developmental editing, in which a story is not just “fixed”
but rather organically developed through conversation and exploration.
In such a relationship, both the editor and the writer learn and grow,
sharpening the gifts of the author and the needs of the project.
This will be a virtual meeting via Zoom.
(FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!)
Writers Roundtable – February 2021
Next Writers Roundtable:
(A monthly, informal discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.)
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 from 6PM – 7:30PM
“The Facts of Life”
(Putting Research Into Autobiography)
How does a couple research their own lives
40 years after the action in a two-person autobiographical story?
That is just one of the intriguing questions Diane Taylor will ask
Terry Marshall and Ann Garretson Marshall at this month’s meeting.
The Marshalls new book, “A Rendezvous to Remember” goes on sale February 9,
the date of our meeting! WSN members can get a preview
of the Marshalls’ book along with information on how the book came to be,
decisions regarding the book’s personal details and, yes, the research.
Moderated by Diane Taylor.
Writers of Southern Nevada is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
February 9, 2021 from 6PM – 7:30PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88995122868?pwd=bEFod0dkcWQ5blVQVmE2UGJraG43QT09
Meeting ID: 889 9512 2868
Passcode: 176133
(FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!)
Writers Roundtable – November 2020
Writers Roundtable
(A monthly, informal discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
from 6-7:30 PM
Virtual via Zoom
(members: check your email for log-in instructions – non-members: see below)
Topic: Writing About The Week After The Day After Tomorrow
- A Writing Prompt for the History Books We Will All Be In Someday -
If you end up with a longer piece, you can read part of it.
Each author will have 15-20 minutes total to read AND for discussion so that everyone’s work can be heard.
(FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!)
Writers Roundtable – May 2020
Writers Roundtable
(Join us for our monthly discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
from 6-7:15 PM
VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING (in 2-parts)
(if you did not receive the dial-in instructions contact us and we will be happy to send them to you)
Topic: “Elsewhere: Writing About The World Far From Home”
Join us for our monthly discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.
Ready to get out? We can help you, in the virtual sense!
Join Writers of Southern Nevada and Olympian Creative
at 6 p.m. on May 19 on Zoom for our first-ever WSN Virtual Writers Roundtable.
This month’s theme is “Elsewhere: Writing about the world far from home.”
Literature has always transported readers to faraway places and alternative corners of the soul.
And we all need a little of that right now.
Zoom in to share and discuss your short stories or excerpts (1000 words or less, please)
that explore settings that are distant in space and time.
UNLV writing professor and Olympian Creative director Greg Blake Miller will moderate.
(FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!)
Writers Roundtable – March 2020
Writers Roundtable
(Join us for our monthly discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.)
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
from 6:30-7:30PM
(inside the Coffee Press at Paseo Verde Library
in Green Valley Ranch across from The District)
Topic: “The Art and Anxiety of the First Page”
Join us for our monthly discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.
This month’s discussion will be moderated
by Greg Blake Miller of Olympian Creative.
To writers, “the first page” means two very different things—the first page we actually write, and the first page of the completed story. Both can provoke anxiety—the former is our entry into the story as writers (the anxiety of the blank page); the second is our reader’s entry into the world we’ve created (the anxiety of communication). At the Roundtable, we’ll discuss these dual points of entry, 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. We’ll finish the session with a discussion of the importance of the ultimate “first page” when sending out queries and story submissions.
Feel free to bring something that you are currently working on to share with the group if you like.
(free for WSN Members and first time guests / $5 non-members)
Writers Roundtable: January 2020
Writers Roundtable
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
from 6:30-7:30PM
(inside the Coffee Press at Paseo Verde Library in Green Valley Ranch)
Topic: “Putting Distractions To Work For Us”
(The Upside of Meg-xit, WW3 And Other Rabbit Holes)
Join us for our monthly discussion where we talk about topics relevant to today’s working author.
This month, in the wake of Meg-xit, is a great time to look at the fragility and the solace of our writing routines. After almost two full months of holiday after holiday where are we at with our new 2020 Resolutions? Are we still returning gifts? Are we still trying to figure out what just happened? Is the news not making any sense at all anymore? Should we be pooling our money to buy a small fleet of RV’s to go live in northern Canada together for five to ten years? (where of course there’s still good internet access so that we can still upload our new novels and update the keywords on our Amazon pages?). Join us for a lively discussion about getting sh*^ done even in the midst of chaos and carving out our own little refuges every time we sit down to write. Time permitting, we’ll also talk about turning distractions into (sometimes lucrative) inspirations.
Feel free to bring something that you are currently working on to share with the group if you like.
Open Forum, with WSN Members Diane Taylor and Eric Miller kicking off the discussion.
(free for WSN Members and first time guests / $5 non-members)
Writers Roundtable – September 2019
NOTE: WE ARE MEETING THE THIRD TUESDAY THIS MONTH
Tuesday, September 17, 6:30-7:30PM
(the THIRD Tuesday of the month this month)
inside the Coffee Press at Paseo Verde Library in Green Valley Ranch
Topic: “Life, Literature and the Pursuit of Publication”
(Building the confidence to send your work out into the world!)
Do you have work that’s ready for a readership? Need an extra jolt of motivation to get you to send it out there? Join us at our next WSN Roundtable. Bring in one story or essay you would like to see published in the coming months and be prepared to discuss it with the group. You’ll have the opportunity to read a passage, get feedback from your fellow writers and discuss target markets for your work. We look forward to seeing you for good coffee, great conversation and your next writing credit!
Moderated by Greg Blake Miller.
(free for WSN Members and first time guests / $5 non-members)
WSN's roundtable discussions are informal, but informative. Everyone will have the chance to share their thoughts and ask questions about various aspects of being a working writer. As always, the conversation is likely to morph and evolve in different directions depending on what everyone brings to the table with their favorite cup of elixir.
We look forward to seeing you for compelling conversation and great coffee!
Free for members and first-time visitors,
$5 for non-members.
2019: May Writers Roundtable
This one is a little different, but should prove interesting:
“Analogue Writing About a Digital World”
How do we portray a screen-based world in our fiction and nonfiction?
Moderator Greg Blake Miller is going to bring some essays (including a great one by Oliver Sacks)
to discuss and as always we invite attendees to share examples of artful portrayals of the modern wired age
(such as “Black Mirror” and the recent movie “Searching”).
2019: April Writers Roundtable
NEXT ROUNDTABLE:
Tuesday, April 9, 6:30-7:30PM
(inside the Coffee Press at Paseo Verde Library in Green Valley Ranch)
Topic: The Hook & the Cliffhanger: How To Keep Readers Hanging On
We will discuss examples from books that aren’t mysteries to illustrate the importance of hooks
and cliffhangers in all types of writing. Moderated by WSN Member Suzanne Munshower.
Suzanne is the author or ghostwriter of more than 30 books. Her work has been published by major houses in eight countries and six languages. Her books include a biography of Princess Margaret, Promote Your Way to Success (a self-help business book), the popular Simply Sophisticated: What Every Worldly Person Needs to Know, and the best-selling 2015 thriller, Younger (Thomas & Mercer). A former public relations consultant and magazine editor, she has ghostwritten for people ranging from fashion designers to psychiatrists. She currently ghostwrites independently and through three leading ghostwriting agencies. Don’t miss what promises to be a very entertaining and informative discussion! Bring your favorite examples of hooks and cliffhangers from either your favorite authors or your own work.
This is going to be an open forum discussion where everyone will be encouraged at the end to talk about their favorite hooks and cliffhangers (bring examples!) and how they use them in their own writing.
(free for WSN Members and first time guests / $5 non-members)