Tuesdays with Story

Writer’s Mail
Tuesdays with Story
October 20, 2017

A Small but Boisterous Bunch

Eight members gathered at the Barnes and Noble Tuesday evening to discuss book chapters, social media, and semi-colons.

Larry Sommers (chapter 1, Immigrant Saga) – Tracey and others questioned the long unrelieved passages of travelogue-like Omniscient Narrator description and thought it would be a good idea to tie more of that material to Anders’ personal point of view. Jack questioned a few historical details and said the slave auction scene was clichéd and offered one or two ideas to make it less so. Good, useful comments from everybody. Thanks!

Mike Austin (chapter, Riding with the Reed Gang) – A lot of compliments for the writing.  Mike has posted the whole story. There were questions regarding the use of first person. What will happen when the first persons get together?

Tracey Gemmell (chapters, More of Less Annie) – The chapters were appreciated for their humor and ability to move the story along at a good clip. Pat suggested some great verb alternatives. She also wanted more descriptions of the dog. Bob wanted a better transition from tentative Annie walking to beach to her turning into Julie Andrews. Several members liked the dialogue between Rob and Annie though Rob may be too good to be true at this point! Amber provided some great insight into social media platforms. Tracey has to learn to tweet. Many thanks for the great feedback.

Fifth Tuesday at Jack’s Farm on Oct 31

Directions: Hickory Knoll Farm
Address 5438 Highway M
Take Fish Hatchery Rd south out of urban Fitchburg to where Highway M crosses at the rural stop light.
Turn left and go about 3/4 mile.
Watch for house with light on and white, free-standing garage, also lighted.

Writing challenge:  Boo. Write a Halloween story, 500 words max

Be an Author who gets Heard!

Neighborhood House Community Center and WVMO are collaborating on a new radio show featuring local writers reading original works. Features should be under 10 minutes to read. If you’re interested, please contact Andy at Neighborhood House. 608-255-5337.

Also…

The second annual UntitledTown Book and Author Festival in Green Bay, Wisconsin, will be held April 20-22, 2018. We are currently seeking pitches from writers of all genres, agents, editors, arts advocates, illustrators, and book-making folks of all sorts.

Our Call for Pitches is available here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdD9pZhIa-YpbfOgEi3-7X8P7pF2eUdXRMiE8Yg8eCxX_aWw/viewform

We will accept individual pitches as well as suggested panels via this form until November 15, 2017.

As you might already know, our first UntitledTown Festival hosted a book expo as well as events and workshops by 70+ writers, including Kimberly Blaeser, Liam Callanan, Brenda Cardenas, Louis V. Clark III, Christi Clancy, Nickolas Butler, Ben Percy, Dan Chaon, Michael Perry, Lorna Landvik, Kate Harding, Sherman Alexie, and Margaret Atwood. Held in walkable downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin, the 3-day festival drew crowds of up to 2000 people, and garnered high praise from participants of all ages. All events were free and open to the public.

And…

An author friend of Tracy’s is trying to compile information on ways to improve the indie author experience. Please take a moment to look at this survey and complete it if you can. It only takes a couple of minutes.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdT3S7d9h7hBSEnYZyvqhZns_r3-G1IhJbS5hGRetmFVlKY9A/viewform

Upcoming Schedule

November 7
Millie Mader (???)
Jack Freiburger (short story, part 7,”Jesus Walked into the IHOP”)
Tracey Gemmell (???, More or Less Annie)
Katy Sullivan (part 4, “The Night We Met”)
Kashmira Sheth and Amit Trivedi (chapters, ???)
Jerry Peterson (short story)

November 21
Larry Sommers (chapter 2, untitled novel)
Paul Wagner (chapter 2, Rise of the Serpent)
Mike Austin (chapter, Riding with the Reed Gang)
Bob Kralapp (short story, part 3, “Faith”)
Tracey Gemmell (chapters, More or Less Annie)
John Schneller (chapter, Final Stronghold)
Amber – Book 2.

December 5
Millie Mader (???)
Jack Freiburger (short story, part ?, “Jesus Walked into the IHOP”)
Tracey Gemmell (???, More of Less Annie)
Katy Sullivan (part 5, “The Night We Met”)
Kashmira Sheth and Amit Trivedi (chapters, ???)
Jerry Peterson (short story)

Ye olde editors for the newsletter

Pat Edwards for October and Larry Sommers for November.

Reminders for Future…

December 5 and 19, we will be at the Alicia Ashman Branch Library, in the big room.

January 30 is our January Fifth Tuesday
Place: Amber Boudreau will host.
Writing challenge: ???