California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch

Dedicated to Educating Writers of all Levels

Writers Network, July 3 – Mini-Crowdsource Opportunity

Slaying the Beast

 

Join us for a virtual meeting on Zoom

Writers Network Meeting
July 3, 2020

10 to 11 a.m.

This month’s Writers Network will be an opportunity to bring your most intractable, gruesome, horrendous writing challenge to our forum of compassionate writers for ideas. We can’t promise a perfect solution, but we can promise sympathetic ears and our best suggestions. Think of it as crowdsourcing on a tiny scale.  If that chapter ending eludes you, a character won’t cooperate, or your tendency to procrastinate is out of control, together we may help you find a way through it.

To leave time for discussion, we only ask that you bring a problem that can be explained succinctly. Using examples from your work is encouraged. Comments on the work of others should be supportive and brief.

Click on the link below to join the meeting:
You will need a computer with camera and mic (best would be a new-ish laptop), or smart phone, or camera attachment for your computer plus telephone to call in for audio portion.

Writers Network, June 5 – Creating and Revising Poetry

Don’t Settle For Normal

 

Karen Holladay Durham
Author, Poet and Overthinker

Join us for a virtual meeting on Zoom

Writers Network Meeting
June 5, 2020

10 to 11 a.m.

How do we create poetry we’ll stay in love with?  By ignoring everything but our muse while we create, and by putting our muse (and our heart) in a drawer while we revise. Poet and author Karen Durham will share her own way of keeping the work fresh throughout the process of draft and revision for poetry and just about any writing. So sharpen your pencil and your scissors and your hacksaw and your scalpel; let’s get to it.

About the speaker:

Karen Holladay Durham lives and writes in Sacramento. She has published in the literary magazine American River Review, and has been a featured reader on the live-recorded writersontheair.com radio show and blog.
Click on the link below to join the meeting:
You will need a computer with camera and mic (best would be a new-ish laptop), or smart phone, or camera attachment for your computer plus telephone to call in for audio portion.

Writers Network, May 1 – Zoom Meeting

 

CWC Sacramento is Coming Back to Life!

Join us for a virtual meeting on Zoom

First Friday Networking Meeting
May 1, 2020
10-11 a.m.

(We may go longer, depending on how many people show up, technical difficulties, etc.  Please be patient as we try out this new meeting format.)

For CWC Sacramento members only.

You will need a computer with camera and mic (best would be a new-ish laptop), or smart phone, or camera attachment for your computer plus telephone to call in for audio portion.

Be prepared to share what you’ve been working on for the last two months, or a few words about yourself (helpful tips, things we might not know about you, etc.)

Please follow the instructions and the link on the e-blast invitation to be sent prior to the meeting.

If you are new to Zoom, our member John Patterson is hosting a tutorial on Wednesday night, April 29, at 6 p.m.  Check your email for more information.

Writers Network, March 6 – How and Why I Wrote My Memoir

 

 

Naida West

Western Memoir and Novels

Naida will address:

1. Why she broke her memoir into two parts;
2. How Mark Twain’s autobiography influenced her;
3. How to handle the problem of your children without resorting to Twain’s strategy of delaying publication for100 years.

Briefly Naida will explain how she marketed her books, including creating the Authors Booth at the State Fair with a fellow author.

Naida West, author of Eye of the Bear, River of Red Gold and Rest for the Wicked (California Gold Trilogy) as well as Murder on the Middle Fork and other books, has received copious praise from readers over the last 25 years. A common question they ask is:  How could you portray people from the 1800s so vividly that readers feel they know them personally? Her most recent book, Daughter of the West, Part I, answers that question. Readers meet a host of farmers and ranchers who raised her in Idaho and Montana, including one who became the model of the most villainous character in River of Red Gold. Naida is now writing Part II.

Writers Network Meeting
March 6, 2020
9-11 AM

Perko’s, 6215 Sunrise Blvd., Citrus Heights (north of Greenback)

Bring Market Leads & Marketing Tips

The California Writers Club–Sacramento Branch Networking Meeting is held the first Friday of every month at Perko’s Restaurant, 6215 Sunrise Avenue, Citrus Heights (north of Greenback),  starting at 9 a.m. Meetings are free. Attendees pay for their own breakfast.

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