Tuesdays with Story

Writer’s Mail
January 24, 2014
“Wind Chill” Edition

“Every single day, I get emails from aspiring writers asking my advice about how to become a writer, and here is the only advice I can give: Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous — because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people — and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.” – John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, TIME’s #1 fiction book of the year.

Just too Cold
We’re a tough bunch, but the below zero temperatures and gizzard-numbing wind chills caused us to cancel meeting again. Hope 2nd/4th get lucky next week or we’ll have a month without meetings.

Who’s up next . . .
January 28: Karen Zethmayr (page of pop-up book instructions), Holly Bonnicksen-Jones (chapter 6, Coming Up For Air), Deb Kellerman (chapter 3 of recent work), Carol Hornung (chapter, Ghost of Heffron College), and Ryan Wagner (poems).. . . *Meet at Barnes & Noble Westside.

February 4: Lisa McDougal (chapter 11, also chapters 7 and 10 rewrite, Tebow Family Secret), Cindi Dyke (chapter 2, North Road), Bob Kralapp (short story, “Hole in the Wall”, Part 1),
Millie Mader (chapter 50, Life on Hold), Ruth Imhoff (scene 1, Flame of Souls), Jerry Peterson (chapters 22-23, Capitol Crimes), and Cathy Riddle (What I’ve learned about publishing).

February 18: Amber Boudreau (chapter 28, Noble), Andy Pfeiffer (chapter, The Void), Kashmira Sheth & Amit Trivedi (???), Pat Edwards (???), Judith McNeil (chapter 8, My Mother, Savior of Men), and Jerry Peterson (chapters 24-26, Capitol Crimes).

Wanted: Newsletter editor for February . . .
Pat Edwards is getting Writers Mail out to us this month, but who will take on the assignment for February? How about you? To volunteer, respond to Pat today.

Still time to get in on the CCW contests . . .
The Council for Wisconsin Writers every year sponsors contests for best novel, best nonfiction book, best book of poetry, best children’s book, best short fiction, and best short nonfiction published in the previous year. You now can enter with your 2013 novel or short story or collection of poems – whatever gits the CWW’s categories – and you can do so even if you are an indie author – self published – and even if you’ve only published an e-book.

Go to the Council’s website, http://www.wiswriters.org/ , for the rules and the entry forms. Get onto it now because the deadline for entering is January 31.

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