General Meetings
Bring your lunch, come out for the round-robin sharing (the first hour) and then participate in 1-2 planned workshops.
- Saturday, January 11 – Woodridge (noon-4 pm)
- Bring your lunch for the round robin introduction and info sharing. We’ll introduce everyone to the Journey and the major paths, brainstorm our program for 2020, and make plans for the year. There will be two workshops
- 1. Lara Krupicka – Making it More Than a Book: Spinning your novel material into multiple communication streams to reach more readers (& possibly earn money from it)
- 2. An intro to Dungeons and Dragons (Daniel)
- Saturday, Feb 8 – GEPL (11:30 am-3:30 pm)
- Sarah Vu – Writing Melee Combat Workshop
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Tim Yao and Tauna Sonn-LeMarbe – Chapter Structuring Workshop
- Saturday, March 14 – Online (noon-4 pm)
- Workshop: Jenny Johnson – POV
- Discussion: Tim Yao – The Writer’s Life: why we write
- Saturday, April 11 –
GEPL; online (11:30 am-3:30 pm)- Workshop #1: Storyboarding and how to use it to organize your novels – Tauna Sonn-LeMarbre
- Elaine Fisher – How to Write a Memoir
- Saturday, May 9 –
Woodridgeonline (noon-2:30 pm)- Barbara Lipkin – organizing research
- Workshop #2 The history of King Arthur lore – Daniel McCullough
- Saturday, June 13 –
GEPLonline (11:30 am-2 pm)- Leslie Gail – Procrastination
- Jennifer Stasinopoulos – common grammar and punctuation errors
- Saturday, September 12 – Woodridge (noon-4 pm)
- Karen Limbrick – How to conduct and organize research for your writing project
- Tanasha Martin – Starting a project
Shakespeare Reader’s Theatre
The works of William Shakespeare are beautifully written, but many aren’t aware of how much fun they are to read and to act. Everyone old enough to read Shakespeare is welcome to join us—everyone present will have at least some part in the work (and maybe two or three ). No experience or preparation is needed (though it can be helpful to watch some free performances of the plays beforehand). We’re there to have fun, stretch ourselves a little, and enjoy the Bard’s great work. We will be reading/performing the first three acts of Julius Caesar.
- Saturday, Feb 15 1-3 PM (GEPL)
- Feel free to bring costume type stuff and snacks to share 🙂
Writer’s Voice Workshop
Your writer’s voice is the distinctive quality of your writing that characterizes it in the minds of those who read your works. Readers fall in love with their favorite authors’ writing voice and seek out their books. Becoming aware of your own writing voice is a helpful step towards mastering the craft of writing. This free three-hour workshop is sponsored by the Woodridge Public Library and is designed to help you understand what your writer’s voice is. Registration is required; participation is limited to 18 people. Participants should bring paper and pen and/or their laptop computer as there will be writing exercises.
- Saturday, June 20, 1-4 PM (online, sponsored by Woodridge)
Other Paths
- Critiquing Path Catherine Brennan
- Editing Path Sam McAdams