Saturday, June 1, 2019

Wrioters' Morning Out June 15, 2019


“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” ― Miguel de Cervantes. 

WMO meets at 1 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month (June 15) in the backroom of http://greekkouzina.com/ in Pittsboro. Come early for lunch, literary gossip, and then the meeting. 

The NCWN sponsors WMO. Al Manning is WMO Head Brain. .

June’s feature presentation is “Getting the Most out of Your Computer”. While pen and journal may be a writer’s best friends, computers are flashy colleagues who contribute to our writing success. Come join Ralph Earle to learn how to become a Word Processing wizard, track submissions, make the internet work for you, and more. Ralph is a published poet and CCCC instructor with extensive computer knowledge from his career at IBM.

July’s feature presentation is “Setting up Style Guides”. A nice segue from Judith Stanton’s “Style Sheet” presentation and on the heels of June’s presentation, Carol Phillips will demonstrate how an electronic style sheet in your authoring system can make your on-page writing set-up flow like warm honey. Bee armed with questions.

August’s feature presentation is “An Overview of the World of Short Fiction”. Presenter TBA. Also at this meeting, the winner of July’s UFF Contest (see below) will be announced, submission read, and piece published on the blog.

Writing-related Timely Events. Got one? Let Rick Bylina know.
*06/02. 3-5 p.m. Quarterly Poetry Readings open mic. The Joyful Jewel. Hosted by Lorax Poets.
*06/04. 6 p.m. Pittsboro Critique Group. The Root Cellar. “Meet, greet, and exchange ideas.” (Be one with the word.)
*06/08. 1:30 p.m. Triangle Sisters in Crime. Durham South Regional Library. Speaker: author & screenwriter Eryk Pruitt.
*06/17. 2-3 p.m. How to Read a Short Story. The Joyful Jewel. An author talk with the entertaining Ruth Moose.
*06/20. 7 p.m. Nature Writing in Your Own Backyard , an online class for first 40 registrants.
*06/26. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Write Way—Writing Through Grief. The Joyful Jewel. Dori Dupre.
*06/30. Deadline. Sally Buckner Emerging Writers’ Fellowship. I’m too old; it’s for ages 21-35. Get ‘em young.
*07/01-31. The WMO Ultra Flash Fiction (UFF) Contest. Write a monosyllabic 300-Word Story. Details coming.
*07/12. 8:30 p.m. Flash Fiction Writing. The Joyful Jewel. Ashley Memory. (Bring your flashlight.)
*For more about writing-related contests and events, See the NCWN website .

Writing-related Ongoing Events (monthly unless otherwise noted). Got one? Let Rick Bylina know.
*1st Thurs. 6-8 p.m. “Take Five Poetry and Prose Open Mic.” Karma Boutique and Coffee Bar in Sanford. Five minute yaks. Questions? caren@windstream.net .
*2nd Thurs. 7-8:30 p.m. “Featured Poets and Open Mic.” Flyleaf Books. Pre-poetic pontificating--6 p.m. The Root Cellar.
*2nd Sat. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. “Prompt Writing”. Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill.
*3rd Thurs. 6:30-8:30 p.m. “Pop-Up Poetry”. Pittsboro Center for the Arts, Poetry gabbing and learning.
*4th Sun. 2 p.m. “NC Poetry Society Poetry Series” McIntyre’s Fine Books, Fearrington Village.
*Dates vary. Central Carolina Community College — Creative Writing Program writing workshops and courses.
*Ongoing. Performances and programs at the Pittsboro Center For The Arts and Sweet Bee Theater. Check back often.

Bonus #1: Book Launch Checklist: A Marketing Timeline for Authors by Debbie Macomber. Got book? Need plan? Read.
Bonus #2: Average Cost of an Indie Publishing a Book. Selling a service but some good general information.
Bonus #3: Do You need A Moral Arc in Literature? Intriguing blog entry. (I say, “Yes.”)