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OUR GUEST SPEAKER FOR JULY 3, 2008
Linda Carroll-Bradd discusses
Writing
As the Opposite Sex
www.laylachase.com/
Email:
laylachase@yahoo.com
From her site, where she writes as Layla Chase: A
native northern Californian, Layla has relocated to Oregon, southern
California and Texas following her husband’s
career adventures. Along the way, they raised three children
to adulthood and continue to guide a teenager on her path.
OUR NEXT MEETING
July 3 , 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Bethany Congregational Church,
500 Pilgrim Drive in San Antonio
Speaker: Linda Carroll-Bradd
Topic: Writing As the Opposite Sex
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And don't forget our weekly critique group meeting next at Maverick Library
at 8700 Mystic Park
June 25, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
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Linda Carroll-Bradd will discuss the techniques
and considerations necessary to convincingly write characters
of the opposite sex. She draws on her years of experience writing
romance.
This topic is sure to keep us all smiling as well as blushing.
Learn more about Linda, her alter-ego Layla and her writing
at www.laylachase.com/
And be sure to support our author and all small publishers by
checking out Linda's Lone
Star Angel and other
of her titles at The
Wild Rose Press: www.thewildrosepress.com
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
MEETING SCHEDULE
The San Antonio Writers Guild meets the first Thursday of each
month at
7:30 p.m. at Bethany Congregational Church at 500 Pilgrim
Drive in San Antonio. The first Thursday date is bumped to the
second Thursday when holidays interfere, such as New Year's Day,
Independence Day, and church holidays. The Board of Directors
Meeting begins at 6:30 p.m., before the general meeting. The
directors meeting is open to the general membership, but closed
to visitors, except by invitation.
What Happens at a SAWG Meeting?
At the beginning of meetings
we welcome new members, members share good/bad/funny news, guild
business transpires, sometimes we raffle donated books. A program
follows, most often presented by guest speakers on a wide range
of topics of interest to writers. Afterwards, membership splits
into groups for workshops.
Learn more about workshops »
View the programs archive » (coming
in the future)
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WHO'S INVITED
All persons interested in the writing profession
are invited to the meetings of the San Antonio Writers Guild.
Visitors are welcome to attend. If you like our group, we encourage
you to become a member and attend future meetings.
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WORKSHOPS
Workshops at the monthly meeting are divided into fiction,
non-fiction, and poetry. Each workshop has its own rules about
how much is read, but generally a person's work is read and
workshop participants offer friendly criticism and advice.
Workshops are held after the business and program part of the
meeting. Workshops are held 11 months of the year: January
through November. (The December meeting is the Holiday Party.)
Fiction
A person must be a member
to have their work read. Members sign up the month before
to have their work read and critiqued. The piece must be
no longer than 10 double-spaced pages in 12-point font
(pica). Therefore, the piece is a short story, part of
a chapter, or similar. The author needs to pick someone
read his/her piece and the author can ask someone in the
workshop to read it that day. The author should bring three
copies of the piece, one for the reader, one for the author
to follow along, and one for any member who is hearing
impaired. With the author's copy, the writer can mark items
that come to his/her attention during the reading. (If
the reader stumbles while reading the piece, that indicates
there might be a problem with the sentence structure. If
the author can bring additional copies for other workshop
participants to follow with, that's great, but not necessary.
Just expect the other workshop participants to mark on those
copies. The author can briefly "set up" the reading
especially if the reading is a portion of a book, but shouldn't
do any additional explanation before or after, especially
if the piece is a stand-alone (complete short story) or the
first chapter of a novel. The workshop participants critique
the work after the reading and the advice is given on a "take
it or leave it basis." Authors do not get a chance to
respond to the advice (Writers don't get to respond to a
reader's comments after the book is published. As an author,
you can't go around the country and explain what's in the
book)
Usually there are three pieces read at each workshop.
Non-Fiction
A person must be a member to have their work
read. Each piece is up to five double-spaced pages. The author
can bring enough copies so each person (usually from six
to nine) can have a copy to follow along during the reading.
The workshop members generally make notes on the copy and
hand it back to the author. The author can read the piece
and explain it. Advice given by workshop participants is
on a "take it or leave
it basis."
Poetry
A person must be a member to have their
work read. Usually three poems from each person are read
and there is time to read the poems from three or four people,
which means from nine to 12 poems are read each night. After
a poem is read, the workshop participants offer editorial
and friendly comments. The workshop participants tell the
poet how they saw the poem and the poet tells the workshop
participants how s/he saw the poem.
Children's Literature
A person must be a member to have their
work read. The workshop is currently without a leader and
no children's literature group meets. If there are writers
interested in forming a workshop group, one will be formed.
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