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Craft and Critique Workshop Sunday, Nov. 2nd
This workshop promises to be exciting as we’ll be using our first half of the workshop trying our hand (or for those who’ve done this before, dazzling us) at flash fiction! Mark your calendars now, this is one not to miss!
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008
Time: Noon to 3:00PM (Note the time change)
Place: Chico Branch of the Butte County Library
Addy: 1108 Sherman Avenue (cross of First Ave.), Chico
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12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM Craft Workshop
We’ll be trying out a workshop using flash fiction where writers are given a topic to write on for a few minutes and then discuss. This should be a very fun activity!
After the exercise, we’ll discuss the focus of the writing exercise, a specific element of the craft of writing. A sure winner for all genres of fiction!
1:00 – 3:00 PM Critique Workshop
Manuscripts need to be submitted to [kathie dot blog at gmail dot com] on or before noon Saturday October 25, 2008 and will be distributed to members who have attended meetings consistently and are in good standing. If you plan on attending but have not done so previously, you may request a copy be available to you when you arrive, however, we will not be distributing manuscripts to non-members for privacy and copyright purposes.
For more information, contact the organizer, Kathie Leung (pronounced Lee-young) at 521-4264 or [kathie dot blog at gmail dot com].
RSVPs requested! (You may use the "comment" link below to RSVP. Just please be sure to provide a valid email address. RSVP comments and general inquiry comments are not published and email addresses are never published.)
Craft and Critique Workshop
Event Info
Host: Chico Writer’s Group
Type:Meetings – Club/Group Meeting
Time and Place
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Butte County Library – Chico Branch Meeting Room (across from circulation desk)
Street: 1108 Sherman Avenue
City/Town: Chico, CA
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Contact Info
Phone: 521-4264
Email: kathie dot blog at gmail dot com
Description
2:00 – 2:30 PM Review "Tense" Writing Exercise & Discuss
Writing exercise: Write a scene that incorporates the character’s past, present, and future.
2:30 – 3:00 PM Craft Workshop: Tense
Tenses make us all tense sometimes. How do you talk about the past, the present, and the future? How do you talk about the future from the past or the farther past from the past? We’ll look at how to do all of this without losing your mind.
3:00 – 5:00 PM Critique Manuscript(s).
Short manuscripts (2-5 pages) may be brought to the critique workshop with sufficient number of copies to distribute to members.
More Writing Exercise Gone Wrong
Here are some more "Why Did The Chicken Cross the Street" answers submitted by Playwright Anne Wycoff who notes she’s merely rearranged the true words of these famous people.
Shakespeare:
To cross, or not to cross, that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to stay
The smash and squish of outrageous traffic,
Or to take wings against a road of cars,
And by opposing, cross them.
Robert Burns:
The best laid schemes of chickens an’ cars
Often go awry.
Carman Bliss:
Set me the road to cross, in which I can put my wing,
my beak, my claw, of my very self,
and it is a road to cross no longer, it is joy;
It is roadkill. And It is the reason why I cross the road.
Mark Twain:
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few brave chickens to cross the road, is to be found in their egg laying, flight and stupidity under the promptings of a winged, driven spirit.
That, and the fact that their brains are the size of my pinky finger nail, will ensure their unfortunate demise.
Louisa May Alcott:
As a chicken, I am no longer afraid of roads, for I am learning how to drive a car and join my brothers in quest of becoming Foster Farms chickens.
Henry David Thoreau:
Cowardly chickens suffer the desire to cross, heroic chickens, though some be dead, enjoy the thrill of crossing the road of life.
Toni Morrison:
Birth, life and death: Each took place on the hidden side of the road as an egg, a chick and an unfortunate encounter with a Harley Davidson.
Edgar Allan Poe:
Deep into the dark road peering, long I clucked there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no chicken ever dared dream before.
Pearl S. Buck:
None who have always been on the other side the road, can understand the terrible, facinating power of the hope of crossing the road to those who are on the wrong side of the road.
Mahatma Ghandhi:
The difference between crossing the road and being capable of crossing the road would suffice to solve most of the chicken coups problems.
Erma Bombeck:
What’s wrong with you chickens? Would you stop laying eggs if you realized that you have wings? You don’t have to cross the road. You can fly over it!
Anne Wycoff:
We are always trying to cross the damn road and not appreciate the side of the road we are on.
Writing Exercise Gone Wrong
Recently a very witty email circulated with famous personalities answering the question "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Alas, there was room to grow and so members of the Chico Writer’s Group were handed an "optional" writing exercise which was to add to the laundry list. Here you are: (the bits contributed by CWG members are acknowledged, the remainder came via the original email, hats off to the originator of this!)
TOM BROCKAW: I don’t care why the chicken crossed the road but I wish he would stick to the rules he established and do it in less than a minute. (Contributed by Lynn Houston)
KATIE COURIC: Now, Miss Chicken, would you say that you crossed the road because you wanted to set an example for the other chickens, or should I say, flock; or was this a statement? Maybe you felt there was a better selection of grain or maybe you were simply fed up with the pecking order, not that I’m putting words in your mouth… or should I call it a beak? (Contributed by Kathie Leung)
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!
JOE BIDEN: I saw that chicken on Union Street in Wilmington. He was
having a meal at Katie’s Restaurant. I said to him "Hey, how’s it going?" and he said "You know, I was doing really well until my house was foreclosed and I had to cross the road to live elsewhere. And I had to walk here because I couldn’t afford to fill my gas tank." (contributed by Brad Cook)
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
SARAH PALIN: I’m not going to answer that question because I want to talk straight to all those hockey moms and Joe Six-Packs out there and say, doggone it, we’re not going to let the government tell that chicken how to cross the road. (Contributed by Brad Cook)
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One! that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where’s my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken’s intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens in the story white? We need some black chickens.
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across
the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
BARNEY STIMPSON (HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER): Dude, you know we can’t talk about that, it’s covered in the Bro’s before Ho’s book. But I can tell you this, I got to see it with my very own eyes and it was totally AWESOME! It was I, Barney Stimpson, who saw what is now legen – wait for it – dary! (Contributed by Z-Dude and Ry-Guy)
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he’s guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish it’s lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?
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