Gelato Carina

This week's writing workshop was held at Gelato Carina. All of us felt this was a great location. It was quiet, roomy, and the soup was excellent.

Submissions from Jude Goodwin (poetry) and Leslie Tenta (children's story) were read and enjoyed. We had fun with the writing challenge as well.

Subjects for consideration are:

December - do we want a Christmas Get-together at the Sushi restaurant? A tentative date of December 14 has been chosen. Please rsvp using the Comment Box. I will make a reservation for a tatami room.

Future of the group -

Workshop: Some of the writers enjoy the workshop aspect of our meetings and some don't. Not all of us are in the middle of fine-tuning for publication and I have noticed some writers attend until their own work had been read and workshopped, and then stop. Workshopping our own writing is very helpful but it is also helpful to read and workshop other writers' works. It plays a big role in writing practice, perhaps bigger than writing itself. For 2006 we need to discuss the workshop aspect of our group.

Speakers: let's try and have speakers attend meetings once a month. There are many published writers living in Squamish. Let's put a list together and make some contacts. The guest speaker could choose topics like how to get published, self-publication, writing practice, etc etc.

Writing exercises : I like these as it gives all the writers in attendance a chance to write, read out loud, and have fun. For 2006 Im going to try to find a whole bunch more exercises of this kind. Enough for one per meeting.

Why: let's all put some deep thought into the questions of Why do we have a writers' group, and What do we hope to gain from being part of the group.

Cheers
Jude