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Craft and Critique Workshop Saturday, May 30, 2009
Topic: Worldbuilding and Rule Creation
Host: CWG: Chico Writer’s Group
Type: Education – Workshop
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009
Time: 4:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Chico Branch, Butte County Library Conference Room (across from circulation desk)
Street: 1108 Sherman Ave.
City/Town: Chico, CA
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Phone: 5305214264
Email: kathie(dot)blog(at)gmail(dot)com
Get ready for an exciting writing workshop and craft chat this coming Saturday, May 30th!
Agenda
4:30 – 5:00 pm Writing Exercise
5:00 – 5:30 pm Craft Chat – Worldbuilding and Rule Creation
“How do you create a story world? What makes it real for your readers? How do you create rules and keep them consistent?”
5:30 – 7:30 pm Critique Workshop
Manuscripts have been emailed out to the members in good standing and will be critiqued.
Crafting Opening Lines and Critique Workshop
Agenda
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Flash Fiction Writing Exercise and Craft Chat: Opening Lines
How do you pull your readers into your story from the very first line? What makes for a good first line? When should you write it?
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Critique Workshop
Manuscripts have been turned in and distributed to the members in good standing. Order of critiques are as follows: R. A., K. L., D. H.
Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time: 4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Place: Butte County Library, Chico Branch – Conference Room
Address: 1108 Sherman Avenue, Chico (cross street – First Avenue)
Craft Chat and Critique Workshop
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009
Time: 3:30 – 7:30 PM (may break at 6:30 pm)
Location: Meeting Room directly across from Circulation Desk
Chico Branch, Butte County Library
1108 Sherman Avenue, Chico (cross is 1st Ave)
RSVP: Leave a comment below with a valid email address (never published) to RSVP.
Agenda
3:30-4:30 PM Craft Chat and Writing Exercise
Physical Description of Characters
When we’re telling a story, we need to tell our readers something about our characters, and that often includes what they look like. How do we do that without making it sound like a police report? What kind of details are important? What’s best left to the reader’s imagination?
4:30 – 6:30 PM Critique Workshop
Manuscripts are distributed January 2nd to members in good standing.
Queue: B. C.
D. H.
R. A.
N. J.
K. L.
Craft Chat- Dialect and Critique Workshop
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008
Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Chico Branch of the Butte County Library System
Address: 1108 Sherman Avenue, Chico (cross street is 1st Ave)
Agenda
11:00 AM Brief introductions for all members, welcome guests and
new members
11:15 AM Craft Chat: Dialect
Even when we all speak the same language, we don’t all speak it the same way. Dialects are particularly tricky to write. We’ll talk about some ideas for getting dialect down on the page, as well as a neat exercise for learning dialectic speech patterns.
11:45 AM Critique Workshop
In queue:
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Screenplay by B. C.
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Short Fiction by R. S. A.
This event is for members only and those whom have received an invitation. If you desire to join our group or would like more information, please leave a comment with a current, functioning email address (never published) and we will be in touch with you shortly.
Upcoming Meetings
Saturday, December 27, 2008
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Chico branch, Butte County Library
Manuscripts are due by Thursday, December 18, 2008 and will be distributed to members in good standing on Friday, December 19th.
This is a member-only event. For further information, please leave a comment with your current, functioning email address (never published) and we will be in touch with you shortly.
Craft Chat, Critique Workshop and End of NaNoWriMo Celebration
Whether or not you even participated in the tenth anniversary of National Novel Writing Month or won the challenge of writing 50,000 words in 30 days, it’s time to celebrate this momentous event! We’ll be having a pot luck this coming Sunday, November 30th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the Chico branch of the Butte County Library. RSVPs are required. Please leave a comment below if you haven’t already received an email invitation and would like to attend.
We’ll be writing more flash fiction as a writing exercise on Sunday after our last experience went quite well. Our topic for the craft chat will be the use of a metaphor to convey a theme. Be sure to bring your laptop and/or a pad of paper and pen along with you as we’ll be writing!
We also have 4 pieces to critique, a short story that came from a writing exercise and 3 poems. Chico Writer’s Group members have already received their copies and are expected to have read them, commented upon them and bring the printed out copy to our meeting to discuss and then return, with comments, to the original author. If you did not receive a copy but would like to attend, leave a comment here (be sure to use a working, valid email address) and we’ll confirm your reservation.
Critique Workshop
Our next Critique Workshop will be held Sunday, October 5th, 2008, at 2:00 PM. The location has yet to be announced. For more information, contact Kathie at kathie dot blog at gmail dot com or call 521-4264.
Manuscripts are due no later than noon Saturday, September 27, 2008. Once received, we will assign the critique leader and email out the manuscripts by 5:00 PM that day. Documents should be sent to Kathie for distribution to the entire group in the following format (listed in order of preference): *.doc, *.txt/*.rtf or *.pdf If you are unable to open any of the preceding formats, please notify Kathie immediately and provide a list of formats you are able to open.
Remember, we want to make sure everyone has had ample opportunity to read your work at least twice as this is the best way to receive the best constructive critiquing and must keep in mind everyone’s hectic schedules.
Lead critiquers will be assigned with the distribution of the manuscripts. If you won’t be making our Sunday, October 5th, 2008, meeting at 2:00 p.m. (location TBA), please let Kathie know so that you are not assigned a lead critique position.
If you’d like to know more about critiquing, formating your manuscript for critiquing purposes, etc. please leave a comment and we’ll be happy to bring you up to speed and answer your questions!
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