Meeting Reminder

[Jeff City Writers Group]

Where: Missouri River Regional Library, Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
When: 7 p.m., Wed., June 4

Hope to see you there! Thanks, Heather


Meeting Notes:

Bob Boldt will make a presentation of using the power of the right
brain, entitled, In My Right Mind. It will include the screening of
the film Superhighway to Bliss by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist
who discovered increased energy, creativity and insight as a result of
a stroke.

Begin forwarded message:
From: bboldt2 <deb...@gmail.com>
Date: May 9, 2008 2:11:48 AM CDT
To: Jeff City Writers Group <jeff-city-w...@googlegroups.com>
Cc: hfe...@gmail.com
Subject: Next meeting announcement, notes and a shameless self
promotion.

The next meeting of the Jefferson City Writers group will meet at the
Missouri River Regional Library on Wednesday, June 4th at the second
floor Gallery space from 7pm to 8:30pm.

The May 7th meeting of the Jefferson City Writers Group went off
well. Four submissions dealing with conflict were read to wide
acclaim. Those who submitted received a lot of positive feedback on
their work. The free writing assignment was to write a short piece
dealing with a selected “inspirational” picture (one of five). We had
a lively discussion about various concerns of writers, such as
technical writing, publishing rights for work submitted over the
Internet, dealing with the pain of publisher rejection, etc.

For the next meeting it was decided that we would all participate in a
(I don’t know what you call it) a round robin, exquisite corpse, or
whatever. Anyway, the idea is:

Adam has agreed that he will start the ball rolling by beginning the
first page or two of a story that he will bring to the next meeting
and read for our pleasure. Then the second volunteer will take the
work and at the July meeting will add on the next page 3 & 4 and so on
until we run out of participants or story, whichever comes sooner.

This kind of idea was tried in the 90s with a certain measured success
by a group of Miami writers in the mystery novel spoof called, Naked
Came the Manatee. For the full story see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Manatee

We also decided on another introductory writing assignment for the
June 4th meeting. We are asking everyone to bring in a 200 to 500
word character description or portrait, if you will. This could be on
the order of “the most interesting person I have ever met” or
something less spectacular. This can be a real or imagined person (or
I suppose robot, AI computer, talking dog or extraterrestrial, etc.)
All bets are off!

Respectfully submitted,

Bob Boldt