Next meeting announcement, notes and a shameless self promotion.

[bboldt2]

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

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One of our members (me!) will be delivering an old-fashioned
Chautauqua on May 30th at 7 - 8:30 PM in the 2nd floor gallery. To
quote from the poster:

Chautauqua* tonight!

In which an edifying, illustrated lecture will be delivered on the
subject of time travel, film, television, altered states and a
personal history of life in the 20th Century. Presented by Bob Boldt
with a copious number of illuminating moving sound pictures. Everyone
is invited!


*Chautauqua "...to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring
culture and enlightenment to the (eyes), ears and thoughts of the
hearer." - R.M. Pirsig from his novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

And from my blog, as long as I am shamelessly promoting…




I have spent over fifty years working in all aspects of media from
news, to commercials, documentaries and experimental films. It has
been my great good fortune to have seen first-hand this unique
technological revolution occur in which our culture has gone from
radio and theatrical motion picture presentations to the digital
revolution and the Internet. I will discuss my personal take on this
revolution and how it evolved. I will also try to indicate where I
thinks it is going and how it will change totally the way we look at
ourselves, our society and the future.

Keep coming back to this site for further glimpses of the shape of
things to come….

Myspace.com/bboldt2