Imagine you are a news anchor. Write the beginning of tonight's newscast. Make the top story what you truly think could happen today, or what you wish would happen today!
Bring your "news article" to our next meeting.
Picture Day, April 27,
April 27, 11:00, Picture Day! No Meeting at the Library
McCoy-Callison Photography (also known as Legacy Portraits)
2100 Ahloso Rd, Ada
580-332-5104 (studio #)
Directions: From the Library - Go east to Mississippi then
South past E-Stop, Left onto Ahloso Rd, Immediately left into the drive. The studio used to be a house.
I will meet anyone who wants to follow me to the studio, at 10:45 (at the library). Please let me know if you will be meeting me so I don't leave without you!! (580-332-8373 or 580-235-5024).
Suggestions from the photographer:
Wear a solid color
Black or white clothes are fine.
Don't forget your smile!
Remember, these pictures are for our 2019 Creations. So, think about how you want to be captured as a writer! The club will get a disc which will be the property of Ada Writers.
A special rate will be offered for anyone interested in buying pictures for themselves.
If you have any questions, call me.
See you Saturday!
Debbie
(580-332-8373 or 580-235-5024)
Legacy Portraits is the same photographers that take the graduation pictures for the local high schools.
Writing Prompt
Today on the NaNoWriMo blog, they gave some suggestions for writing prompts.
I thought I would share them with you:
Write a scene about:
- A vampire and a bank heist
- A ghost and a dysfunctional family
- A private eye and a haunted house
- An alien and a pizza parlor
Sounds like fun, huh? Bring your writing to our meeting Saturday!
National Card and Letter Writing Month!
April is National Card and Letter Writing Month
Remember receiving a letter, handwritten in beautiful penmanship? I bet it's been a while.
When was the last time you wrote a letter - not a text, tweet, or email, but an honest to goodness letter?
This is your chance. Pull out that stationary and brush off the dust. Get out your favorite pen (we all have one). Find your address book. You're ready to get started!
This is a wonderful tradition that is quickly going away. They don't teach penmanship or cursive in school anymore.
It doesn't have to be a lost art.
Your letter or card, doesn't have to be long. It's just a reminder that a person is special to you.
I found a great website on the subject. It has suggestions on how to proceed with this 'writing month' idea. Including, a calendar of ideas for every day of the month.
I hope you give it a try. We are writers after all. We should write!
https://www.thinkmakeshareblog.com
Camp NaNoWriMo! April 2019
- Complete a writing project in a month
- Track your progress
- Get online support
- Free to participants
- 100% fun
- https://campnanowrimo.org
Camp NaNoWriMo started on Apr 1 and goes through the 30th. It's not too late to start!
Join me in the challenge!
National Poem-in-my-Pocket Day April 18, 2019
National Poem-In-My-Pocket Day
April 18, 2019
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 is on April 18 and is part of National Poetry Month. On this day, select a poem, carry it with you, and share it with others at schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, street corners, and on social media using the hashtag #pocketpoem.
It’s easy to carry a poem, share a poem, or start your own Poem in Your Pocket Day event. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved:
- Start a poem giveaway in your school or workplace
- Urge local businesses to offer discounts for those carrying poems
- Post pocket-sized verses in public places
- Memorize a poem
- Start a street team to pass out poems in your community
- Distribute bookmarks with your favorite lines of poetry
- Add a poem to your email footer
- Post lines from your favorite poem on your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest
- Send a poem to a friend
Other ideas-
Write a poem with chalk on a sidewalk
Add a poem to your signature line on your email.
Happy April
Happy April!
Don't you just love this time of year? Trees are blooming, bulbs are coming up, it rains (and rains!), it's sunny, it's cold, it's hot! Spring is here in full force. Suddenly, we have to mow our yards. We begin to think about what to have for Easter dinner or where we are planning to celebrate. We are ready for new, spring, clothes in brighter colors. We are ready to put winter behind us. Do you have a favorite memory of spring? Write about it and bring it to the next meeting. We'd love to hear about it.
Characters
At our last meeting we discussed Characters; what they are, why they are important, and how to use them in our story. This is an involved subject and we have only hit the surface. We will discuss some of the types of characters at future meetings. Meanwhile, we learned that characters are important to moving the story along. Our main character should be well defined. We should know what he looks like, how he thinks, what beliefs are important to him, etc.
The main character is the one who carries the reader through the plot of the story.
Here are some basic definitions of types of characters:
Main Characters – the characters that will have the most effect on the plot or are most affected by what happens in the story.
Protagonist-the main character who generates the action in the story and engages the reader’s interest and empathy. Often the hero or heroine.
Antagonist-A character or other force that opposes the protagonist.
Secondary Characters-serve to complement the major characters and help move the plot events forward.
Scissor Tail Festival 2019 - April 7-9 at ECU
Don't Forget - the ECU Scissortail Festival
Begins April 4th at 9:30 Estep Auditorium with
Ben Myers – Oklahoma Baptist University
Black
Sunday: The Dust Bowl Sonnets
This is a 2 1/2 day event. I plan to attend the whole event.
Anyone who wants to meet me there, call me 580-332-8373 or 580-235-5024
if I don't answer, leave a message or send me a text (text the 235-5024 # only).
If you can't attend the whole time - you may want to come
April 4 at 7:00 – 8:30 pm Ataloa Theatre
Hallie
Brown Ford Fine Arts Center
to see Tracy K Smith, poet laureate of the United States
for more information go to www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com
Writing Prompt
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