This is the theory / fundamentals reading we will open with for our Monarch Monday Meet on May 16th 2022 at the Bread Co on Chippewa at 5:30. We will discuss this for the first hour or so, and then … Continue reading Reading for Next Meet – Choosing Your Point of View – From ‘Viewpoint: Key to Fiction Writing’ by Francis L. Fugate
The group is looking at ‘point-of-view’ in writing again this coming meet, and we will have a reading available to members in our shared google drive soon if you want to follow along with the next section. In the meeting … Continue reading Monarch Monday Meets – 5/16/2022 – ‘Viewpoint: Key to Fiction Writing’ (Continuing Reading the Book by Francis Fugate)
Looking at two stories comparatively in the writers group this week and last week, as one of our writers was turned on to Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ for the first time. We were discussing how a story can be told … Continue reading At Tonight’s Meeting We Discuss ‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’ and ‘The Lottery’ – Two Stories With Similarities But Different Realizations
This week The Monarch Writers group will be meeting Monday in St. Louis, back in person and still going strong. We’re Looking at Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ Comparing to ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ by Ursula K. Le … Continue reading This Week The Group Discusses Telling the ‘Same’ Story In Different Realizations
https://www.meetup.com/The-Monarch-Writers/events/283341093/ – Please RSVP to Be Sent Zoom Link Join our handful of regular Monarch Writers if you are feeling adventurous and RSVP and Zoom In for this discussion this Monday at 6pm, January 23rd, for a couple of hours … Continue reading Online Zoom Writers Group This Monday – RSVP On Meetup – Writers Critique Circle and Craft Discussion -Analyzing Ray Bradbury Short Story ‘The Fog Horn’
In May The Monarch Writers are focusing on the idea of Setting and World. Whatever type of writing you are doing, you need to have some kind of focus on the scene beyond the immediate plodding plot. Where is your … Continue reading MAY 2021 – Focus on Writing SETTING – Creating a World For Your Story To Live
I just listened to this dramatic reading from a cast of Librivox volunteers of the play âSix Characters in Search of an Authorâ by Luigi Pirandello. Written and first performed in 1921. I want to get down some initial thoughts … Continue reading When Someone Asks If Youâre a God, You Say Yes! My Reaction to the 1921 Play âSix Characters in Search of An Authorâ
Each month The Monarch Writers, here on our .com and also on our Discord, will focus on a specific theme. This month it is CHARACTER. And specifically how to make strong characters. First, to sum up the issue: So what … Continue reading APRIL 2021 Writing Feature Focus: A CHARACTER In Search Of…
âSadly for books in the current times there are more writers than readers, so it seems.ââ B.S. Murthy âI’m not so arrogant to think I’m the only guide someone needs … but I might be the guide that someone needs.ââ Laura Anne Gilman In … Continue reading Writing a Punchy Author Bio or Blurb for Yourself to Pitch Your Work as a Writer
The Paris Review’s âMy First Timeâ video interview series. Writers talking about their first big work’s success and what it took. Watch the trailer for the series, and fifteen installments in the video and playlist below. Continue reading The Paris Review ‘MY FIRST TIME’ Series
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