March program

Sean Hazlett, blogger extraordinaire, will talk about effective blogging at our March 10 meeting.  Be sure to join us.  Details on our Next Program page!

Critique Groups – a Member Benefit

From our President, Elisabeth Tuck:

One of the greatest member benefits of CWC is the ability to have your work critiqued by other dedicated writers, many of them already published. To join our traditional monthly critique group, contact Ted Wells at wellsware@msn.com.

To form a smaller, more flexible group, contact Don Maker at metacognition2@yahoo.com. For Don, include your genre(s). He will put you in contact with others who share your genre(s) and wish to meet more often, read entire manuscripts, exchange work by email, and so on.

February Program

On Sat., Feb. 11, Elizabeth Rosner will focus on the topic Thinking Like a Poet Can Improve Your Writing.  Equally at home in poetry and prose, Ms. Rosner’s talk will help us to hone our language and strengthen our prose.  See our Next Program page for details.

For All Young Writers!

What: Make ‘em Laugh!  Write Funny: Learn comedy techniques from two published authors

Who: Grades 6 – 8

When: January 21, 2012       9 a.m. – Noon

Cost: FREE!

Where:  Walnut Creek Public Library, 1644 N. Broadway, Walnut Creek , CA  94596 

Register for the Walnut Creek Jan. 21 workshop here: http://tinyurl.com/7humdhm

Next Program–Breakfast and Workshop

Based on our latest survey, we’re offering another workshop with a beginning breakfast to make sure you’re fully fortified for a three-hour learning session.  Nick Mamatas’ workshop topic is Beginnings and Endings for Fiction and Non-fiction, a topic from which we can all benefit.  For details and registration information, see our Next Program page.

Next Critique Group meeting

Join the critique group on Dec. 10, 9:30 – 11 a.m. at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant in the room across from the bar area.  The critique group, as always, meets right before the monthly meeting and program.  Ted Wells, critique group leader has lined up the following for you:

• Sean Hazlett will talk briefly about “Blogging to Build an Audience 101:  10 Lessons About Building an Online Platform in 10 Months.”  He will share his experience and lessons learned in generating traffic for a blog which he started early in 2011 and which now has a total over 53,000 views and up to 600 a day.

• Ted Wells will speak informally and briefly on “The State of the Big Six Publishing Houses,” based on Nov. 19, 2011 meetings with Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, Literary Agents.  Larsen and Pomada have been in business in San Francisco since 1972.

• Following these will be critiques and discussion on fiction pieces

Please bring 5-10 typed, double-spaced pages of fiction manuscripts for someone to critique.

 

Next Program: Paths to Publishing

Our December 10 meeting brings our annual three of our own.  How blessed we are with talented writers!  Check our Next Program for information about our speakers:  Judith Ingram, Jeryl Abelmann, and Nannette Rundle Carroll.  We’ll also have our annual seated lunch—fish, meat, or vegetarian.  Be sure to specify your menu choice when you register.  Details and registration information are on our Next Program page.