I studied Latin, but I hated its arbitrary word order. Blah, blah, blah. Shut up and listen to me. It is graduation time January 1941. Ceremonies take place in Carnegie Hall. One thinks of the musician’s joke, “How do you get to play Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice.” For us the practice was four years …
Flash Workshop – Saturday, June 4 from 10 am to 11;45 am Instructor: Lynn Goodwin A flash story is short and snappy. You will learn how to grab, surprise, and mesmerize your readers in 750 words or less. Bring a pen, a notebook, and your imagination. Cost: $1.25 activity fee per person. For reservations call …
Sunny days invoke images of backyard hammocks, surging seashore tides or magical adventures. When writers envision these scenes, they’re compelled to make readers see the hammock sway, smell the salty ocean, feel the gritty sand between bare toes, or hear waves crash against a craggy shore. No
Join CWC Tri-Valley member Sondra Perry and “Henry the Heron” Sunday and Monday, May 29 & 30 at the San Ramon Art and Wind Festival in Central Park.
A resident of Berkeley, California, Chris is the founder of National Novel Writing Month and the Executive Director of its parent nonprofit, the Office of Letters and Light. With his startlingly mediocre prose style and complete inability to write credible dialogue, Chris has set a reassuringly low bar for budding novelists everywhere. Chris is an …
Jamuna Advani received honorable mention for
California Writers Club Tri-Valley celebrates with these members published in Illuminating Echoes, Las Positas anthology, released at an author’s reception Saturday, May 14, 2011. Poetry: Alice Kight (Library Hideout and I Walk Out Early); Deborah Grossman (Prayer and Washing Up); and Ronnie Holland (The Phone Call, Daphne’s Pedestal and My Mother’s Violets). Prose: Patricia Bacon …
I started a book review group, along with writers Julie Royce, Vee Byram, and Sharon Svitak, with a different twist. All of us are in critique groups sponsored by the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch. All of us strive to improve our skills not only as writers, but as critiquers as well. That quest became …
Astronauts and writers, career opposites, share a common thread of exploration. Space travel obliterated the saying, “The sky’s the limit.” From a limited tweet to a full novel, writers are word astronauts journeying into the unknown. Characters from nonfiction reality to extreme fantasy form a crew for liftoff into a new dimension. A theme emerges.
Telling Your Story is a workshop designed to help determine the story you want to tell, techniques for uncovering nuggets of detail, and suggestions on how to bring your story to life. This will be a hands-on workshop so bring a notebook to write in and your favorite pen. Cost: $1.25 activity fee per person. …
