If you haven't been to a meeting since the convention last October, you are missing out! We have had wonderful increases in attendance and in the variety of writers coming to visit and share on the second Saturday of the month. Writing may be a solitary occupation (except for collaborative efforts - I know there is some of that going on out there - come and tell us about it), but getting together with others who share this great passion can be inspiring, educational, and therapeutic. We all have problems with writer's block, obdurate editors, mountains of rejection slips, and someone at one of our meetings may have just the cure (or coping mechanism) that you need. At the very least you will find someone to commiserate with!
And our programs are always valuable - I have learned something from every presentation that I can apply to my writing. I am looking forward to the March meeting (which is just around the corner). Patricia Davids will tell us about plotting novels. Yes, me, a poet, interested in hearing about plotting. I do not intend to write a novel, but I do read a lot of them, and have always wondered how some of those complex and intricate plots are invented. And I do write narrative poetry - which needs at least the skeleton of a plot.
So set your plot in motion. Put the March meeting on your calendar: Saturday, March 8, Rockwell Library, 5939 E. 9th Street, Wichita, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Come and meet the other characters. Make your story arc and theirs intersect. Be part of the plot line advancing. Get set for the denouement of your own personal writing tale.
- Roy Beckemeyer, KAC D5 President
And our programs are always valuable - I have learned something from every presentation that I can apply to my writing. I am looking forward to the March meeting (which is just around the corner). Patricia Davids will tell us about plotting novels. Yes, me, a poet, interested in hearing about plotting. I do not intend to write a novel, but I do read a lot of them, and have always wondered how some of those complex and intricate plots are invented. And I do write narrative poetry - which needs at least the skeleton of a plot.
So set your plot in motion. Put the March meeting on your calendar: Saturday, March 8, Rockwell Library, 5939 E. 9th Street, Wichita, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Come and meet the other characters. Make your story arc and theirs intersect. Be part of the plot line advancing. Get set for the denouement of your own personal writing tale.
- Roy Beckemeyer, KAC D5 President