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Monthly Meeting, February 18 – Powerful, Braided, Creative Nonfiction

Free Monthly Meeting

(includes Q&A) 

Saturday, February 18, 2023

 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Arden Dimick Library
891 Watt Avenue
Sacramento, CA

 – or –

Join with Zoom

Passcode 868719

 

with

Somadhi Kakwasi 

Author, Storyteller, Writing Teacher

Join me on a dive into braiding differing themes to create unforgettable creative
nonfiction for your reader’s heart and mind.

Attendees will:

* Learn what makes a creative nonfiction essay braided.
* Learn how braiding (or threading) adds meaning to the overall message
* Learn how to create coherence or unity in a braided essay
* Learn where to find additional resources on the braided creative nonfiction essay
* Learn a 5-minute mind-map to discover 2-3 braids for your creative nonfiction

In 2007, Somadhi Kakwasi earned an MFA in creative writing to help her
settle into authoring in her senior years. She’s published “Coming Forth
by Day,” a novel, two children’s books, and her flash fiction stories have
appeared in Flash Fiction magazine, an online literary journal.

 

 

Filed Under: Luncheon

Writers Network February 3 – The Writer’s Bible


Friday, February 3, 2023

9 – 11 am

CH Cafe & Grill (formally Perko’s)
6215 Sunrise Blvd (just off Greenback)
Citrus Heights 

or

Join with Zoom

Passcode 811481

Michael Brandt

Writer, Speaker & Global Adventurer

Mike will discuss the basic elements of decoding your characters DNA, your plot, and your book.

You will learn about:

  • How to create your own bible relating to your book
  • Understanding your characters DNA, or the 100 Thing You Should Know
  • Self-interview or Introspection
  • Interviewing your character(s)
  • Building a hybrid character

Mike Brandt started writing travel articles in 1999 after completing the Two Oceans Marathon, a 35-mile ultra-marathon, in Cape Town, South Africa. Mike has published numerous articles/short stories, including three stories in the SSWC’s 2019 Anthology. He has written articles for international travel magazines about Belize and volcano boarding in Nicaragua. Recently he completed a crime thriller on Mt. Elbrus in southern Russia.  Mike is an extremophile who enjoys traveling to remote corners of the world, skydiving, mountaineering, marathoning, and writing stories about his adventures.

Mike has been a member of CWC Sacramento Branch since 2013. He has been a speaker and panelist at national conferences.

 

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Writers Network January 6 – Building Characters from the Inside Out


Friday, January 6, 2023

9 – 11 am

CH Cafe & Grill (formally Perko’s)
6215 Sunrise Blvd (just off Greenback)
Citrus Heights 

or

Join with Zoom

Passcode 811481

 

 

Gini Grossenbacher

 

 

Gini Grossenbacher, M.Ed.

Award-winning Novelist, Poet, Editor, Publisher

Lisa Cron says, “A story is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes as a result.” Thus, story is what happens to our character internally, not externally. Our workshop will examine five key ways to deepen the character’s internal agenda and reveal her struggles through her inner lens. Writers will take away useful character-building strategies they can use crafting on their stories, memoirs, and novels.

Attendees will learn about:

  • The Character’s Life You Will Turn Upside Down
  • Your Protagonist’s World View
  • Your Protagonist’s Past and Current Beliefs
  • Your Protagonist’s Goals in both Scenes and Story
  • Defining your Protagonist’s Overarching Plot Problem
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In addition to teaching writing, editing, and publishing the work of her fellow authors, Gini Grossenbacher loves writing historical novels. Madam in Lace, set in France, received a Reader’s Favorite Five-Star review and the 2022 Independent Publisher Silver Medal for Best European Fiction. Chinese American Madam in Silk was the Runner Up in the 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards for Historical Fiction. Her debut novel, a tale of Baltimore, New Orleans, and San Francisco, Madam of My Heart, won the 2018 Independent Publisher Silver Medal for Historical Fiction. She is currently celebrating the launch of her poetry collection, Glimpses. Founder of Elk Grove Writers & Artists, Gini leads weekly writers’ Zoom workshops on style and substance, the novel, poetry, and flash fiction. You may contact Gini at www.ginigrossenbacher.com

 

 

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Monthly Meeting, January 21 – Travel Writing

Free Monthly Meeting

(includes Q&A) 

Saturday, January 21, 2023

 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Arden Dimick Library
891 Watt Avenue
Sacramento, CA

 – or –

Join with Zoom

Passcode 674974

with

Jill Hedgecock

Awarding-Winning Novelist and Freelance Writer

Travel broadens your life perspective, creating a muse board reveals the details—both experiences will make you a better writer.

Attendees will:

  • Understand the importance of treating setting as character in travel-based writing
  • Take the necessary steps to retain the sensory details of your travel experiences
  • Learn what a muse board is and how to create one
  • Discover the 12 benefits of writing a muse board

Jill Hedgecock is an award-winning and internationally published author of four novels and writes monthly book and pet columns for a Bay Area paper. Jill was the Program Coordinator for Mount Diablo CWC for 8 years, twice received a Distinguished Service award, and currently judges the club’s young writer’s contest. To learn more visit www.jillhedgecock.com.

 

Filed Under: Luncheon

Writers Network December 3 – Making a Good Mystery: Pacing, Clues & Character.


Saturday, December 3, 2022

9:30-11 am

CH Cafe & Grill (formally Perko’s)
6215 Sunrise Blvd (just off Greenback)
Citrus Heights 

OR

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Claire Booth

 

 

Claire Booth

Crime Fiction Author and Journalist

Take the elements of a good mystery—like pacing, dialogue, and character development—and transfer them to any genre of fiction.

Attendees will learn about:

  • How to use the three-act structure to monitor your novel’s pacing
  • How to avoid the dreaded “info dump”
  • How to use clues in the right places
  • How to write dialogue that doesn’t give things away
  • How to keep the suspense going

Claire Booth, speaking on “Making a Good Mystery: Pacing, Clues & Character.”

Claire Booth is a former journalist who has reported on high-profile stories all over the country, including that of a California cult leader who became the subject of her nonfiction book The False Prophet. She now writes the Sheriff Hank Worth mystery series. Her latest is Dangerous Consequences. Find out more at www.clairebooth.com.

 

 

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