Writers’ Mill in the News
We’re in the news!
We’re in the Beaverton Valley Times; you can read the whole article and enjoy the pictures at pamplinmedia.com/bvt/15-news/242740-109891-words-from-the-writers-mill
and we’re in the Cedar Mill News: http://cedarmill.org/news/1214/communitynews.html#journal
Plus this! http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2014/12/writers_mill_publishes_third_j.html
Many thanks to everyone who made this happen!
VoiceCatcher connects our journal with readers all over Portland!
Yes, we’re in VoiceCatcher. Just follow the link and enjoy.
Please share the link with your email friends as well. Who knows, they might be inspired to buy the journal and see what we did.
http://www.voicecatcher.org/archives/4341
And now this…
We’re in the Westside Cultural Alliance too
http://www.westsideculturalalliance.org/the-writers-mill-journal-volume-3-available-now/
Plus Libraries!
Our journal can be found in Cedar Mill Library, Bethany, Hillsboro, Aloha… If you’ve seen it (or delivered it) to any other libraries, please leave a note in the comments and I’ll update this.
Protected: Do You Have A Platform? Notes from a talk by Karen Robbins and Poppy Smith
Protected: Minutes 201411
It’s Here ! And it’s for sale on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Powells
Congratulations authors, illustrators, editors, compilers, plotters, planners, encouragers and all! Volume 3 of the Writers’ Mill Journal is here, in two large boxes, ready for distribution at our next meeting.
The Writers’ Mill Journal, hot off the press
Find it on Createspace at https://www.createspace.com/5037718
or on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Mill-Journal-Volume/dp/1502743493/, in print and kindle versions.
Go to http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9781502743497-1 to see it at Powells (no cover image yet, but you could try asking in the store and see if they fix it).
And find it at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-writers-mill-journal-sheila-deeth/1120625950 in Barnes and Noble.
(I have no idea how these other sites get their lists of authors, or lack thereof, so please don’t ask!)
Meanwhile, watch this space for nook and other ebooks, coming soon.
Welcome
Welcome to the Writers’ Mill, a group of writers who meet monthly at the Cedar Mill Library. If you write, or want to write, we would love to have you join us. And if you join us, you just might get access to the password protected parts of this site. Enjoy!
How to Critique – a brief and easy guide for reluctant critique leaders
- When you read the story for a critique, circle anything you particularly like, and underline anything that confuses or distracts you.
- Note the point when you first realized where and when the story takes place. What made it real?
- As a critique leader, ask the group about time and place. The author wants to know which readers did and didn’t recognize this, and why. Continue reading How to Critique – a brief and easy guide for reluctant critique leaders
Writing exercise – get out of your comfort zone
October’s meeting ended, appropriately, with a writing exercise.
- In an effort to get us out of our comfort zones, Sheila asked for fourteen random nouns. We came up with:
Spaceship, spade, owl, truck, flag, tree, shirt, car, custard, chocolate, witch, airplane, Starbucks, and woman.
- With the current contest in mind, we were then asked to imagine a character and hiding place, then list fourteen more nouns: two for each of our character’s senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, bodily feelings, and emotion.
- Finally, we were asked to pair up seven of these with seven from the first list of nouns, to create metaphors which we could use in a poem or description of a scene.
- Sample metaphors include: “The flapping flag of pride” “The chocolate voice of desire” “The warm air’s comfortable shirt against his skin” “the lumpy custard of the sagging mattress” etc.
If you weren’t there, or even if you were, why not give this a try to get your creative juices flowing.