Tuesday, January 15, 2008
January Meeting
Greetings everyone,
It’s hard to believe this will be my final announcement to you for our up-and-coming meeting, but so it is. In shifting gears, in light the notice I just sent you, our focus at Saturday’s meeting will be how to interject humor into our writing. Our speaker will be Freda Gower Ward, the Pinellas group leader. The title of her presentation is “How to turn ordinary life into humor.” She is not a stand-up comedian, but rather, will be showing us how to take ordinary life events and give them a humorous twist. True story. Freda wears many hats, one of this which is that of realtor. She was bringing a client to a pre-arranged 10 am appointment at an open house. She rings the door bell, and a 300 pound, beer-bellied man cracks open the door wearing nothing but his boxers and says, “Uh. We’re having sex.” Imagine. Now you’ll have to come to the meeting to see how she turns that every day event into something humorous.
Humor and laughter are vital to our health but also can be important to our stories, be it children’s stories, memoirs, coming of age, mysteries, or thrillers. She likes participants to go home with something meaningful. I know there many of you are working on manuscripts. All of our writing, or much of, comes from the creative spin we give to what’s ordinary. If there is a scene where you’re asking yourself, “How can I interject some humor?” or “Is it appropriate it to bring in humor?”, bring to the meeting three, double-spaced, unnamed typewritten pages. She will read from them, and we will all have a chance to add a different slant to the scene.
WHAT: “How to turn ordinary life into humor.”
WHO: Freda Gower Ward
WHERE: Barnes & Noble (Carrollwood)
11802 North Dale Mabry Hwy.
Tampa, FL 33618
813-962-6446 (store)
WHEN: Saturday, January 12 from 10 am to noon.
Lunch follows at Nikki’s
REMINDER: If you would like to know how to put some humorous pizzazz into a scene, bring your pages to the meeting.
Julia ThornbroughGroup Leader – Hillsborough
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man- that sounds like one meeting NOT to miss!
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I'd like to pass along an announcement about a anew MONTHLY writing contest:
let me know if you need more info.
Linda
NEW writing contest- FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITIES
Be one of the first to jump on the bandwagon. This program is being rolled out in NYC at this month's AWP Conference for 7000 attendees.
Introducing scratch
the monthly writing contest itching to discover new talent.
This contest seeks new short fiction to be selected by rotating guest judges-
authors, agents, editors and publishers.
Help us discover new writing talent. Let us help you build publication credits.
Small fee to enter, cash prizes and publication every month,
plus annual anthology.
For more information and links to ENTER this month, go to
http://www.scratchcontest.net/
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