Milwaukee Writers Workshop

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Just so everyone is aware, we'll be meeting at the Anodyne on KK this session because Bucketworks is hosting a large event that will take up the whole of the facility. Therefore, we have to move for this meeting. If you guys have questions, let me know.

UpdateWe'll only be reading a story from Cathy. It is in the Current Stories section of the site.

We'll also be doing some discussion on character building.

Hope so see everyone there (and some new faces).

This upcoming Sunday we will be reviewing a piece by one of our new members, Ryan Kerr, entitled "Moving Forward", and an older story of mine called "Only Noise".

We already have one story for the next meeting in April, but we're waiting for one more. If you have a story you'd like to have critiqued, please do send it in.

Also, for those of you who have had work critiqued by the group, if you'd like to have it looked at again after having polished it some, please feel free to post it in the same story upload you had the original in (it allows you to upload more than one file) and distinguish it as a second draft or some other denotation, and then post a topic about it in the forums.

See everyone on Sunday.

Update: The meeting will be held at the Wauwatosa Public Library this week.

Attention MWW members! We plan to hold the first official Novelist Group meeting from 7-8pm on Tuesday, April 7th. This is a new group that will meet every other Tuesday, and it's open to anyone with interest in novel writing.

The basic format will be similar to the Sunday Short Story Group. For each meeting, we'll critique roughly a quarter of a given novel, give or take a meeting or two depending on length. From time to time, we'll also have some learning exercises about plot, characters, dialogue, etc. We won't be critiquing anything for the very first meeting; we'll simply be gauging people's participation, hammering out the details, and determining the first novel to edit. So, if you've written a novel you want reviewed or if you just want to immerse yourself in the art of novel writing, then we'll see you Tuesday, April 7th at 7pm!

Your Novelist Group Facilitators: Pat and Greg

Our next meeting will be March 29th. We'll be meeting at Bucketworks from 1-4pm. We'll be reading a story by Greg, entitled "Why" and Kory's story, "Buffalo Nickel". Both are in the Current Stories section for the 3/29 reading date.

Also, if you're interested in coming to WriteCamp this year, please visit the website and sign up and start chatting on the forums. The URL is www.writecampmilwaukee.com. We need to get a better idea of who is looking to attend.

In the coming weeks, there will be a number of updates to the site.

As it stands now, the Story Upload feature has been added back to the site (we're just working on getting the "description" section working again). For now, if you're uploading your story, please just upload it and put down the title. I can go back in and adjust it later. In the title, if you'd be so kind as to put your name, because some folks' user name on the site is different or shortened from their actual name.

Also, the Meetup site will not be around much longer. That means if you haven't created an account and are coming from the Meetup site, you'll need to do that. You can do so by clicking on the "Create an Account" link in the header at the top.

I'd also like to make better use of the forums, which have been active for some time. The Google group will eventually be phased out, too, so there isn't a confusion as to where the information for the group is situated. So please join in on the discussions or start your own.