| There were between 16 and 20 members participating in the meeting; some had to leave early. As Sheila was absent, Ron headed the meeting. |
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Writers’ Mill Minutes Jan 2022
The first Writers’ Mill meeting of the year was well-attended with over 20 members present. If you missed it, you missed a lively discussion with best-selling author John Hoover generously talking to us and answering questions for the whole two hours! Where else could we get such well-qualified one-on-one advice without spending half a fortune? Many thanks to John, to Joe for inviting him, and to Jean for making sure we got him on the schedule.
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes Jan 2022Notes from Maren Anderson’s Talk, Jan 17 2021
Writers’ Mill Minutes 202101
With several new members, we started our meeting by reminding everyone of who we are: the Writers’ Mill, writers helping writers, meeting on the 3rd Sunday of every month. We all agree that our librarian is fantastic and Zoom is wonderful (if occasionally challenging). And maybe one day there’ll be mixed real-and-virtual meetings—it’s a dream, but please be thinking about how it might work. And on the subject of dreams… we run monthly contests online for which this month’s topic was dreams. Von announced the results, and you should have already received them from our contest coordinator, unless you’re a new member (in which case I’ve only just added you to the list):
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Writers’ Mill Minutes October 18 2020
Our speaker this month was Joe Biel, a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker, the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing https://microcosmpublishing.com/, and the co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of many books, director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, and he lives in Portland, Ore and his work can be found at joebiel.net
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes October 2020Research, a talk by Maryka Biaggio
Historical research
Maryka writes historical fiction based on real characters, so her talk began with the world of historical research. First, how do you prepare to write your historical novel? You’ll need to delve into the past, perhaps using:
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Writers’ Mill Minutes 20190721
Thanks to Ria for leading July’s meeting and taking these excellent minutes. Wish I hadn’t missed the meeting!
Writers’ Mill Minutes, July 2019
The meeting came to order timely at 1:00pm. In attendance were two guest speakers, Mollie Hunt and Jason Brick. Both came early to the conference room to set up displays of their books and brand, and meet and greet our writers as they arrived. Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 20190721
Itty Bitty Writing Space, anthologies, queries, promotion: Jason Brick July 2019
How Jason Brick Got Started:
He is a martial artist and ended up writing a piece for a premier martial arts magazine. Admittedly, he will write for anyone within pretty much any venue, but Jason has a special enthusiasm and natural affinity for martial arts, since he himself is a martial arts specialist and he has two sons who are also involved in martial arts. He told me prior to the start of our meeting that he traveled to Malaysia in 2016 to write a piece for a travel magazine, but also so he and his sons would have the unique opportunity of visiting a country with a completely different lifestyle and culture very different from living here in the United States. He said it was an amazing experience for him and his sons, one which he will always treasure, plus he got paid to be there! Continue reading Itty Bitty Writing Space, anthologies, queries, promotion: Jason Brick July 2019