Due to Covid 19
Be sure to wear your mask everywhere until we can meet again. Write while you can, tell your stories you own way. Stay safe.
January Meeting 1-13-2020
Our first session of 2020 is Mon., Jan 13, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Bring something you are working on to share with the group for productive critique, or write from the prompt below: I appreciate the thought, but . . . It’s time for us to make some writing resolutions…
October Meeting of the Guild
The next session of the Longwood Writers Guild creative writing critique group will be Mon., Oct. 14, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, IL 60643. Come join us! Please bring something you are working on to read aloud for critique, or write from the following prompt: I wouldn’t drink out of…
March Comes in like a writer . . .
Longwood Writers Guild will meet Mon., Mar. 11, 7 p.m. BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr., Chicago, 60643 Bring a piece you are working on to share with the group, or write from the prompt: I can’t control the weather, but I can control . . . FYI Outrider Press is accepting submissions for the…
35 Things to ask your characters – and yourself
If you ever watched the Actor’s Studio with James Lipton, you saw a version of the Proust Questionnaire. Here is the original list. Using it for your characters in long pieces really helps. 35 Questions Made Famous by Marcel Proust What is your idea of perfect happiness? What is your greatest fear? What is the…
Genres defined – from Wikipedia
Of the dozen categories of fiction writing, the below descriptions are the most up-to-date definitions. Sometimes knowing what others call what you are doing, helps. Good writing. Drama – stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action Classic – fiction that has become…
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