If you are a member of NCWN-West, you received an email with an invitation to Writers' Night Out for Friday evening, 7:00 PM, February 12.
Sign in a little early to be sure everything is working correctly. If you are not a member and want to attend from your own home, you will need an invitation.
Contact glendabeall@msn.com before Friday the 12th, and I will send it to you.
If you want to read at Open Mic, let me know and send a sentence with which to introduce you.
"Unsolicited feedback isn’t critique, it’s criticism. Call it the first rule of Write Club: if the writer didn’t ask for your feedback, it’s unlikely that your input will be helpful."
https://writerunboxed.com/2021/01/04/the-gift-of-critique/
"There are no good writers, only good re-writers."
That is why we often take our work to critique groups such as we have in NCWN-West counties, Cherokee, Clay, and in North Georgia. We want to hear feedback from other writers, but we want to hear it from people who know the etiquette for giving critique. I have heard from people who stopped going to groups where people were unkind and rude when commenting. That is the best way to stymie a budding writer or a shy writer. I believe in encouraging writers and offering suggestions when they want them and doing so in a kind way.
Hope Clark gives some good advice in her article.
Are you a writer of Romance Novels? If so, you might be interested in this from Writers' Digest.
Congrats to Randy Maxie. Two of his poems have been published in the latest edition of The MacGuffin, Fall 2020, Vol XXXVI, No. 3.
The poems are: The Buck Stops Here (a clerihew) and If Subtlety Is Worth Its Weight in Gold (a sonnet). This particular MacGuffin was dedicated to various traditional poetic formats.
Here at Netwest Writers, we are happy to see what our members are publishing. Send us your news about your writing.
Join us Friday evening, 7:00 PM, January 8 online for Writer's Night Out. While you are home all comfy and warm, click on Zoom and meet Karen, a writer of prose and poetry. Her work has been widely published.
She did not let the pandemic slow her down. Karen has made appearances online all over the state of North Carolina. She read on Six Minute Stories a podcast with Randell Jones.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to our readers.
Where ever you are and whoever you are with this holiday season, we wish you joy, peace, and good health.
As we all look forward to a new and better year, I am grateful that some of our members persevered even in a pandemic and published books, won contests, and entered contests in 2020.
We appreciate the NCWN staff for all the opportunities offered online because we could not meet face-to-face.
Carroll Taylor and Karen Holmes have done a fine job of hosting Writers' Night Out and I am glad to be there to help. We will be online again in January with Karen Jackson as our special guest.
Until then, Write on!
It is a one-hour presentation done in costume and British accent. Bob says it is exhausting, but he loves doing it.
This year, for community health reasons, he will be doing it live on Facebook. You can watch it this coming Wednesday, December 16, at 5:00 p.m.
appeared in "West End Poet's Newsletter," (December, January, February, 2021 issue).
www.westendpoetsweekend.com.
Robert Lee Brewer gives us some grammar tips:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/shook-vs-shaked-vs-shaken-grammar-rules
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes editing Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. He's the author of Solving the World's Problems, Smash Poetry Journal, and The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets.
Bobbie Christmas in her book, Purge Your Prose of Problems says:
We say ice tea, but the correct word is iced tea. Jane sipped iced tea.
Today in movies and on television, people often use the wrong pronoun and in the wrong order. Bobbie Christmas explains this in Purge Your Prose of Problems.
Incorrect: Send the letter to George and I. (This is often used wrong in media)
Correct: Send the letter to George and me. (Think - Send the letter to me.)
Incorrect: Us women believe in liberation.
Correct: We women believe in liberation.
Incorrect: Send the letter to me and George.
Correct: Send the letter to George and me.
Readers, do you have any writing tips you will share? Email, post on blog, or leave a comment. Help your fellow writers.
Tonight, December 3rd, at 7:00 p.m. EST, poet and editor Malaika King Albrecht and the journal Red-Headed Stepchild host a virtual book launch via Facebook and Zoom. The event is listed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/1083638252032460/ and the direct Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83281179470 The event is followed by an Open Mic.
On Sunday, December 6, at 3:30 p.m. EST, poet and
editor Rose McClarney and the North Carolina Arboretum host a reading of
various authors from the collection A Literary Field Guide to Southern
Appalachia (UGA Press), a new literary and natural history anthology. The
book combines natural history information, original art, and poems commissioned
from some of the writers who make up another Southern Appalachian wealth, as
great, perhaps, as its biodiversity—its rich literary community. This special
programfeatures readings by a diverse group of poets who composed original work
for the field guide and conversation about how the natural world inspires and
informs their craft.
