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Meet to Write – Thursday, November 13, 2014

Write!After a very inspiring September Luncheon in which Grant Faulkner spoke about the Power of Writing with Abandon, specifically as it relates to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org), the Sacramento Branch of the California Writers Club is organizing a Meet to Write event.

From the President’s Message section of the October Newsletter:

For November, it will be in celebration of NaNoWriMo, http://nanowrimo.org/, and also National Nonfiction Writing Month (NoNonFiWriMo), http://writenonfictionnow.com/.

On Thursday, November 13, 2014, several of us will be meeting to write with abandon, together, and invite others who are interested to join in. We will meet from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Marie Callender’s Restaurant & Bakery, 5525 Sunrise Boulevard in Citrus Heights. Marie Callender’s will have coffee and food available for purchase. Tentatively, we will write for an hour or so, with introductions before writing begins and group sharing time after writing ends.

Who should write together? We invite you and interested writers to join in.

What should you plan to write when you attend? You can have something in mind, or go where inspiration
takes you.

What should you write with? You can bring a computer, or just pen and paper.

Why write together? Getting together to write is nothing new; other writers and groups do this. What is new is for us to organize the “Meet to Write” as a club activity, and we will consider having this as a regular event.

Interested in “Meet to Write”? Contact Margie Yee Webb to reserve your spot for Thursday, November 13.

Imagine meeting for the purpose of writing to see where your creativity will take you when you can focus on writing for an hour or more. Imagine your words and thoughts flowing freely. Join us!

Luncheon September 2014: Grant Faulkner – The Power of Writing with Abandon

 

Saturday, September 20th, 2014 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Grant FaulknerThe Saturday, Septeber 20, 2014 CWC luncheon will feature Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of the Annual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), nanowrimo.org, addressing  “The Power of Writing with Abandon,” overcoming procrastination and learning how a goal and a deadline will pay off.

Faulkner, also co-founder of the 100 Word Story, 100wordstory.org, will give members and guests a dose of grit and inspiration gathered from his author-colleagues and many writing
workshops on improving the quality of writing, both fiction and nonfiction.

This Bay Area resident thrives on empowering people to write. Last year, NaNoWriMo officially weighed in at 310,000 adult novelists, plus an additional 89,500 young writers. Two thousand classrooms received free resources through the Young Writers Program while 650 “Come Write In” libraries and bookstores glowed with accomplishment.

With a B.A. in English from Grinnell College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, Faulkner brings an impressive resume. His stories and essays have appeared in The Southwest Review, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, PANK, Gargoyle, eclectica, Puerto del Sol, the Berkeley Fiction Review, and Word Riot, among others. He’s recently finished writing a novel, a collection of short stories, and a collection of one hundred 100-word stories. He has taught writing at the university level and in Young Writers Programs. For many years he worked in the National Writing Project to improve the teaching of writing in schools.

Grant gave a really interesting and entertaining talk on The Power of Writing with Abandon with particular emphasis on National Novel Writing Month. Please have a look at the presentation.