Hi Everyone,
We will be meeting on Sunday, Sept. 17th at 4:30 at the Mocha Monkey coffee shop, downtown Waconia location in the upstairs back room.
The prompt this time: Its a free write. Bring whatever you’re working on or write a page or two of what’s in your heart! Anything goes this time around.
Hello writers,
It was a quiet meeting in the library on Saturday the 2nd, but in the face of adversity (a.k.a. hopelessly broken Carver County Library wifi) we persevered! We welcomed some friends from the Chanhassen Writers’ Group, shared our works in progress and the inspired products of writing prompts past.
Next meeting’s writing prompt:
For our next Sunday meeting at Mocha Monkey (September 17th), the group decided on a “free write“: bring whatever you’ve been working on, or write a page or two of what’s in your heart! Anything goes this time around.
National Novel Writing Month, November 1-30, 2017
A few members of the group are gearing up for National Novel Writing Month, and would like to discuss with the group the possibility of setting up a few write-ins during the month of November, as part of the NaNoWriMo festivities. All are welcome to participate, so we’d like some input at our next meeting about possible days/times/locations, from anyone who is interested!
Miscellany:
Don’t forget to join your literary colleagues and register for the Loft-sponsored class: Characters, Plot, Setting: Strengthening Your Story, being held at Waconia City Hall on September 30th!
For more upcoming writing-themed community events, check out WWG’s Events page.
We meet on Saturday, Sept. 2nd at 10:30 a.m. at the Waconia Library, fireplace area.
The prompt is to write something about the eclipse…anyway you want: fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, romance. The choice is yours.
As always you can choose not to do the prompt and bring whatever you’re working on.
Hope you can make it!
WWG Writers, do you have that Third-Sunday-Of-The-Month Feeling?
That’s right! We’ll be meeting August 20th, 4:30 p.m., at Mocha Monkey, in the reservable space on 2nd floor.
Our prompt for this meeting:
The weird kid in the back of the classroom… why is he/she so weird?
This is a low fantasy writing challenge! According to the bare-bones Wikipedia definition, low fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction, generally defined as “fiction where magical events intrude on an otherwise normal world.” This is in contrast to high fantasy stories, which are set in their own universes with their own unique laws and rules.
Examples of popular low fantasy books and series include Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling), The Mortal Instruments (Cassandra Clare), and American Gods (Neil Gaiman)… to name just a few.
Hope to see you Sunday!
Hope to see you at our next meeting, Saturday, August 5th, at the Waconia Library.
The prompt: Find a famous line from a movie, take it out of the movie, and make it your own in a story.
And a reminder to check out our Events Page, full of reading and writing opportunities. Big thanks to Jen for posting them all.
Salutations, WWG Writers!
Our Sunday meeting is upon us! We’ll be meeting tomorrow, July 16th, at 4:30 p.m., at Mocha Monkey, 2nd floor in the big blue back room (alliteration, y’all!).
Our prompt for this meeting:
“…who’s Frank?”
A little vague? you may wonder. Perhaps. But that’s part of the fun! And really… who IS Frank? We can’t wait to find out!
If you wanted to work ahead, we also picked out a prompt for our Saturday meeting on August 5th:
Find a famous line from a movie, take it out of the movie, and make it your own in a story.
Hope to see you tomorrow!
Hi writers!
We’ll be meeting this Saturday, June 1st, at 10:30 a.m., at the Waconia Library by the fireplace seating area.
Writing Prompt:
Write a story including these words:
- Carpenter
- Popcorn
- Cowboy
- Covert
- Water bottle
- Dancing
- Yellow
- Lithe
Fun Fact: quite a few of the words above can be both nouns AND adjectives/descriptives.
See you Saturday!
A reminder that this month’s Sunday meeting is changed to Monday, June 19th at 7 p.m.
Meeting place is the same: the backroom on the second floor at Mocha Monkey Coffeehouse downtown. Mocha’s opened until 9 during the week so we won’t have to hurry. Yay!
Prompt is: It happened at the lake.
Hope to see you there.
From the folks who bring us National Novel Writing Month every November…
Whether you have a big novel project in the works, or just want to commit to writing every day… choose your own word count, set your own goals, and write write WRITE during the month of July!
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Hi writers!
We’ll be meeting this Saturday, June 3rd, at 10:30 a.m., at the Waconia Library by the fireplace seating area.
June 3rd Writing Prompt:
Write about an alternate reality! (Examples: science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, post-apocalyptic, magical, supernatural… etc.)
Here are some resources about writing “alternative reality” or “speculative fiction” that you might find interesting or useful:
Alternate realities vs. parallel universes in fiction.
The ultimate guide to worldbuilding: How to write fantasy, sci-fi, and real-life worlds.
Techniques in writing alternate history.
Wikipedia definition of alternate history fiction
Wikipedia definition of parallel universe
Wikipedia definition of speculative fiction
Hope you can make it!
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