Reading for Next Meet – Choosing Your Point of View – From ‘Viewpoint: Key to Fiction Writing’ by Francis L. Fugate

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

Monarch Monday Meets – 5/16/2022 – ‘Viewpoint: Key to Fiction Writing’ (Continuing Reading the Book by Francis 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)

At Tonight’s Meeting We Discuss ‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’ and ‘The Lottery’ – Two Stories With Similarities But Different Realizations

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

Online Zoom Writers Group This Monday – RSVP On Meetup – Writers Critique Circle and Craft Discussion -Analyzing Ray Bradbury Short Story ‘The Fog Horn’

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’

When Someone Asks If You’re a God, You Say Yes! My Reaction to the 1921 Play ‘Six Characters in Search of An Author’

I just listened to this dramatic reading from a cast of Librivox volunteers of the play ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ by Luigi Pirandello. Written and first performed in 1921. I want to get down some initial thoughts … Continue reading When Someone Asks If You’re a God, You Say Yes! My Reaction to the 1921 Play ‘Six Characters in Search of An Author’

Writing a Punchy Author Bio or Blurb for Yourself to Pitch Your Work as a Writer

“Sadly for books in the current times there are more writers than readers, so it seems.”― B.S. Murthy “I’m not so arrogant to think I’m the only guide someone needs … but I might be the guide that someone needs.”― Laura Anne Gilman In … Continue reading Writing a Punchy Author Bio or Blurb for Yourself to Pitch Your Work as a Writer