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Character Emotion and Word Choice with Eric Witchey
Eric Witchey is a well published author all around the world, and a well respected writing teacher – definitely a writer helping writers! Find him at https://ericwitchey.com/index.html
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Writers’ Mill Minutes, April 21, 2024
Cedar Mill Library, Beaverton and online Zoom
Eight participants attended online, and six were present in the library meeting room, for a total of fourteen. Sheila Deeth led the meeting from her online Zoom perch in Tennessee. She announced at the opening of the meeting that today’s program would be recorded and asked if there were any objections. If so, Zoom attendees could hide their video and remove their surnames from their screens. In person attendees would be invisible anyway, as only today’s speaker, Carolyn Martin, would be on camera at the library.
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Carolyn Martin (https://carolynmartinpoet.com/) presented a wonderful hybrid workshop at our hybrid meeting on April 21 2024. The meeting was recorded and can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Iq4hT0DJA (submissions) followed by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGL4rVOHbR0 (settings)
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With thanks to all the members who offered advice, questions, comments and more, most people present learned something during our “efficient use of Word” meeting, so now we just have to try not to forget it all. To that end, Sheila has added (she hopes) everyone’s suggestions to the file she was working from, and uploaded the file in DOCX and PDF format to our website.
Efficient Use of WORD, word doc: https://www.portlandwritersmill.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Efficient-Use-of-WORD.docx
Efficient Use of WORD, PDF: https://www.portlandwritersmill.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Efficient-Use-of-WORD.pdf
If you want to know what we did at the meeting, and if you want to use WORD more efficiently, please follow the links and download the files. Then you’ll be able to follow through all the actions and add to your own skillset.
Historical Fiction with Maryka Biaggio
Maryka Biaggio is a Portland author of several published historical fiction novels.
Ron introduced Maryka and stated that he had enjoyed reading her novel, The Model Spy. Her topic today concerned “telling lies”to flesh out historical fiction when actual facts are not readily available. She began by saying, however, that the “lies” must be believable, fitting into known history of the period. Background research is necessary, and there is nothing that throws off a reader more than finding an “oops”—words, dialog, events, etc.—that do not fit in with historical truth.
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Nine participants attended online, and nine were present in the library meeting room, for a total of eighteen. Ron Davis led the meeting in Sheila Deeth’s absence. Christine Wong managed the technology from the library, with assistance from Matthew McAyeal. Jean Harkin took Minutes.
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Six in person, 11 on Zoom, plus one gave us 18 people at Sunday’s “efficient use of WORD” meeting, presented somewhat inefficiently by Sheila with one computer and one hand.
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Writers’ Mill Minutes – 21st Jan 2024
There were only three attendees in the library meeting room this month – perhaps not surprising given the recent weather. Many thanks to Christine for setting up there, and to Matthew for being in charge. Meanwhile we had ten members online – a smaller meeting than usual, but a lively one! We celebrated achievements of 2023 and discussed our goals, both personal and group goals, for 2024.
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