Thursday, September 24 5:00 p.m. Village Writing School
(177 Huntsville Road)
Guest Speaker: Marian Szczepanski
Next Writers' Night Out in Bentonville
O C T O B E R 6
Rogers/Bentonville TUESDAY, October 6 6:30 p.m. Panera Bread
1320 SE Walton Blvd, Bentonville
From the Director . . .
H E L P !
Lately, I've been confused. Even more so than usual.
Our core program, Everything You Need to Write a Beautiful Story,consists of 30 hours of instruction. I usually teach it in five all-day workshops, one Saturday per month for five months.
But then I heard,
"All-day workshops are just too long."
So I decided to teach our core program in half-day workshops. We even put out posters for this plan.
Then I heard, "No! We want to work through the material as quickly as possible.
We want to finish in five months, not ten!"
What's a girl to do?
Now I'm dividing each workshop into two half-day parts. Each part will be offered separately, but you can take two per day. So, for example, on October 24, I am teaching The First Page in the morning and Character in the afternoon. You can take both if you're gung-ho to learn all the material as soon as possible. You can take just one if you're the zen type who doesn't mind stretching the program over ten months.
Of course, you can't please all the people all the time, and I know that. But we can try.
And you can help us by taking just half a minute to fill out the survey in this week's newsletter. Each month, we will have a survey and everyone who completes it will be entered into a drawing for a $25 gift card. This month the card is from Amazon.
Over the next year, we will ask you questions about what workshops you want, what social media you use, what you like/hate about this newsletter. But today the survey is ABOUT YOU.
Six questions. Not more than thirty seconds.
The gift card is fun, but most importantly, you'll be helping us design writing support that will be helpful to you. Ultimately, the Village Writing School is your program, your community. Even if all you do is read this newsletter, you're a part of us. Without you, we'd have no reason to exist.
So please, help us out. Click and complete the survey.
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Let me assure you that I will do everything
in my power to ensure that I am using the correct word.
Here the word assure is used to instill confidence that something will (or will not) happen.
The word ensureguarantees or promises that a certain result will (or will not) occur.
The third word in this cluster, insure, is considered by some to be interchangeable with the word ensure.The exception is when the word insure refers specifically to a contractual arrangement (insurance policy) that provides one party (the insurer) will pay the other party (the insured) if an event occurs that results in a financial loss.
To avoid confusion between the uses for ensure and insure, The Chicago Manual of Style recommends restricting the use of the word insure to mean the underwriting of financial risk (as in an insurance policy).
You have assurance that the CMS is the insurance that ensures your correct choice.
See CMS: Glossary of Problematic Words and Phrases, Paragraph 5.220, ensure.
So You Want to Write a Novel by Lou Willett Stanek
Set free the novel that’s inside you! Do it now!
Advice from a writing instructor who has helped many aspiring writers achieved their dreams. Encouragement and step-by-step instructions to guide you toward that completed novel.
“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.'”
—Saul Bellow
Meet a Village Writer - Lee Rhodes
Lee Rhodes has worked in law, finance, and law enforcement and been an entrepreneur, visual artist, and English slang teacher. Though she hadn't written for eight years,
Lee is now excited to be reviving her writing projects, which include a memoir and her historical novel. Lee attends our workshops in Bentonville and Eureka and is a regular at Writers' Night Out in Rog/Ben.
Eureka Springs
Maumelle/Little Rock
Rogers/Bentonville
Fayetteville
Fayetteville's TrueLit Festivalon Oct 3 will give you the chance to meet and pitch to local publishers.
Marian Sczcepanski at her workshop in Eureka.
Marian leads a small critique group of writers from Springfield, Little Rock, Lowell, and Eureka Springs.
EUREKA SPRINGS
California publisher, Jean Emerson, shared her reflections on poetry, memoir, writing groups, publishing, and the writing life.
ROGERS
Alison's discussion of Steven Pressfield's The War of Artled our writers into a discussion of their
various opinions on where inspiration can originate.
Thirteen-year-old Charity Bean
shares the first chapter of her story of
six junior high students entrusted by the
Magic Council to save Japan.
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