June 6 meeting notes
June 16th, 2009 by writerly
Seven people attended our June 6 meeting, including one new member.
WRITING RETREAT (Sunday, November 8th)
The writing retreat is all set up for November. We have 11 FW members who have said they’d like to go, which should cover the cost of renting the building. We’ll ask for payment from FW members by early September so that we can cancel the retreat if it looks like the basic cost is not going to be covered.We will ask everyone else to pay by early November before the retreat. Since right now it looks like we should be able to cover our basic cost, we decided to offer a cheaper rate for post-secondary students. Any additional monies will be donated to NaNoWriMo (first to go toward the expenses of the local group, then donated to the NaNo main office).
We have people set up to organize activities, a potluck and snacks, and the carpool. The fee will be $20 per person for the day ($10 students), plus bringing one potluck contribution and one snack for the group.
NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH (November)
We brainstormed about NaNoWriMo. Members offered to poster various parts of the city and help out in other ways. Writerly is accepting donations for NaNo prizes starting now — if you have any books, notepads, pens, kitchen timers, post-it notes, or anything that would make a nice prize, contact writerly at writerwithoutborders@gmail.com to arrange to drop them off. If we get enough notebooks (we’re aiming for 20), we won’t have to buy any. We will have goodie bags this year (YAY!).
There was also a lot of goofing around, but since it was two weeks ago now, the details now escape me. Rest assured, much merriment was had.
BONUS: DIALOGUE WORKSHOP
The dialogue workshop the next day was a success. We had 9 Freddy Words members plus two new people join us. We started with a discussion in Triniteas, where Jarod offered many tips on how to write good dialogue, and then we moved to Officer’s Square. We brought a sample of our writing which we read out loud like a script, with someone reading each character, so we could see what dialogue worked and didn’t work. We all learned a lot and had a lot of fun. Thanks for leading the workshop, Jarod!
The next Freddy Words meeting is June 16th at 7 p.m.
