Kenosha Writers’ Group

Found at:
http://www.anthonyburrill.com/booksmarts.html

• Love discuss writing?
  

  Our friend Marie Boyum, was on blog talk radio Monday March 3rd beginning at 2PM.
  You can listen to the show here




• www.eloquentauthor.com has added our romance writer speaker, Carrie Lofty, to their line-up of teachers after hearing her speak at our meeting.
• UW-Parkside is offering a mini-course called “Creative Basics for Writers” on 5 Mondays, begining March 31, from 7-830pm. Cost is $60. Limit of 12. I can tell you that I am one of the twelve, but have no idea how many are registered for the class. The description of the class is:
  

  “This class teaches the ground rules for basic creative writing used in both fiction and non-fiction. It covers the story arc as well as the context and dialogue.”

  This just might be what a few of us need to get the creative juices flowing again. It could also help with that “Cabin Fever” I’m sure many are suffering from - not just writers!

  www.uwp.edu
  search keyword: Tickets
  When it comes up, click on the “Language and Writing” under the “Mini Courses” option on the left hand side of the screen. You can then register on-line.

  Or by mail:
  University of Wisconsin-Parkside,
  Mini Course - Student Center
  900 Wood Road, PO Box 2000
  Kenosha, WI 53141-2000

from The Eloquent Author, LLC school of Writing

Below are a few word/writing exercises that can help you get through this long winter.

Another way to break out from the winter doldrums is to break into the magazine and newspaper market!
Get out of the house for just a few short hours and bring a breath of fresh air into your writing!

The last available class of this winter semester still has openings (and the spring semester is weeks away!); so check your calendar and call right away to reserve your space for this Thursday’s class -Wrapping It Up with Holly Johnson from 6:30-8 PM. You have probably seen Holly’s work in The Writer magazine, or in the Racine Journal Times (just to name a few), so you know this will be some great information.

Now here’s some amusing ways to have fool around with words: [Read more →]

Flash fiction by Eric S. McMurtrey

Colin and Amanda listened in from the fringes as Summer, Ben, Kemal, Katrina, and Herman all spoke animatedly about the day’s travel plans. The group stood in the band of light offered by the supply truck’s oversized headlights, for the most part too absorbed in their own discussion to notice the beautiful sunrise over the mountains to the East.

Truth be told, Colin was less than half-listening, at best. The bulk of his attention was focused on the cranky old Army Truck that idled unevenly a few feet behind him. On first sight, he would have pegged it for being a World War II era two and a half ton, but on closer inspection he decided it was likely twenty to thirty years newer. If it had been in better shape, it actually would have been kind of fun to work with. It was built to be almost indestructible, had great power, and a ‘multi-fuel’ engine that would burn anything from peanut oil to diesel fuel if the proper adjustments were made.

It just didn’t always run the best, especially first thing in the morning. [Read more →]