[stylist] May Writers' Division Gathering

Sun May 23 21:57:03 UTC 2010

Pat,
you mean it will be read by the daughter you mention in the story?
cool.
jc

At 03:07 PM 5/23/2010, you wrote:
>This will be read tonight by my daughter. I am focusing on memoir 
>for my most of my recent writing.
>
>Patty
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Robert Leslie Newman
>   To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
>   Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:56 PM
>   Subject: May Writers' Division Gathering
>
>
>   RE: May  Telephone Gathering
>
>   Our May gathering will happen on May 23rd, 1 week sooner than the 
> normal last Sunday of the month. recall, the theme ---will be a 
> time to present some of our personal writings for critique. Anyone 
> can present, all can give constructive criticism. You can read your 
> own work or have someone else read it for you. Also, it has been 
> suggested that an author who is planning to present, could send the 
> work out prior to the evenings event..A good idea, though not a 
> requirement. And if you are going to send it out prior to the 
> meeting, you could send it to STYLIST with the note that  it is a 
> piece for the meeting. (We have seen several pieces of novels or 
> entire short stories appear for public suggestion and people have 
> enjoyed these. It will be great if the authors come on the call and 
> we get to hear their voice reading their work.) And one thought or 
> caution - the material intended for this meeting, seeing how you 
> and we will not know who will attend, the material to be read must 
> be acceptable for a general audience.
>
>   I personally will not be attending. Shelley Alongi will be the 
> moderator. You all have a great session! Remember, keep the flow 
> manageable, keep your comments brief and give all on line a chance to talk.
>
>   Next month, June, we will have another special guest. She also is 
> a Division member, Nancy Scott. Nancy is a former president of the 
> Division, a person who has been writing for years, has been 
> published, has won writing contests . She will be presenting a one 
> hour (possibly longer) workshop on Goal Setting. And you all know 
> that to get to a goal,  you have to set one. And for some of us, 
> setting and reaching a goal is not an easy thing. Nancy has a great 
> program on the anatomy and making the achievement of reaching a 
> goal, am obtainable goal. (Woo, that got to be a little tangled, 
> but what Nancy's has is better than that. During the first part of 
> June, a bio of Nancy will be sent to STYLIST, you will see her 
> credentials how it is that she can speak to the topic of Goal 
> Setting.) I am looking forward to June's gathering.
>
>   And as for July, I promise we will have a guest speaker on the 
> topic of technical writing.
>
>    The phone number to call in on is- 218-339-4300
>
>   The code is: 568839# (last character is a number sign)
>
>   Respectfully yours,
>
>     Robert Leslie Newman
>   President NFB Writers' division
>   Writers' Division Website-
>   http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
>   Personal Website-
>   http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>
>
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