Category: Meeting Themes
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Reading for Next Meet – Choosing Your Point of View – From ‘Viewpoint: Key to Fiction Writing’ by Francis L. Fugate
This is the theory / fundamentals reading we will open with for our Monarch Monday Meet on May 16th 2022 at the Bread Co on Chippewa at 5:30. We will discuss this for the first hour or so, and then do readings and critiques. There is also a related prompts regarding point of view you […]
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Monarch Monday Meets – 5/16/2022 – ‘Viewpoint: Key to Fiction Writing’ (Continuing Reading the Book by Francis Fugate)
The group is looking at ‘point-of-view’ in writing again this coming meet, and we will have a reading available to members in our shared google drive soon if you want to follow along with the next section. In the meeting yesterday we got into the process of choosing point of view of a particular tale […]
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At Tonight’s Meeting We Discuss ‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’ and ‘The Lottery’ – Two Stories With Similarities But Different Realizations
Looking at two stories comparatively in the writers group this week and last week, as one of our writers was turned on to Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ for the first time. We were discussing how a story can be told in multiple ways, so so I suggested one of my favorites, ;’The Ones Who Walk […]
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This Week The Group Discusses Telling the ‘Same’ Story In Different Realizations
This week The Monarch Writers group will be meeting Monday in St. Louis, back in person and still going strong. We’re Looking at Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ Comparing to ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ by Ursula K. Le Guin. We were discussing The Lottery last week as one of our writers read it […]
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Online Zoom Writers Group This Monday – RSVP On Meetup – Writers Critique Circle and Craft Discussion -Analyzing Ray Bradbury Short Story ‘The Fog Horn’
https://www.meetup.com/The-Monarch-Writers/events/283341093/ – Please RSVP to Be Sent Zoom Link Join our handful of regular Monarch Writers if you are feeling adventurous and RSVP and Zoom In for this discussion this Monday at 6pm, January 23rd, for a couple of hours till around 8pm.
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MAY 2021 – Focus on Writing SETTING – Creating a World For Your Story To Live
In May The Monarch Writers are focusing on the idea of Setting and World. Whatever type of writing you are doing, you need to have some kind of focus on the scene beyond the immediate plodding plot. Where is your conversation between characters SET? What is the larger world like? What is going on in […]
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When Someone Asks If You’re a God, You Say Yes! My Reaction to the 1921 Play ‘Six Characters in Search of An Author’
I just listened to this dramatic reading from a cast of Librivox volunteers of the play ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ by Luigi Pirandello. Written and first performed in 1921. I want to get down some initial thoughts and reactions. Six ‘characters’ show up at a playhouse while a troupe is rehearsing and […]
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APRIL 2021 Writing Feature Focus: A CHARACTER In Search Of…
Each month The Monarch Writers, here on our .com and also on our Discord, will focus on a specific theme. This month it is CHARACTER. And specifically how to make strong characters. First, to sum up the issue: So what is the issue of character? A character must have DESIRE. And a character, in the […]
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Writing a Punchy Author Bio or Blurb for Yourself to Pitch Your Work as a Writer
“Sadly for books in the current times there are more writers than readers, so it seems.”― B.S. Murthy “I’m not so arrogant to think I’m the only guide someone needs … but I might be the guide that someone needs.”― Laura Anne Gilman In this piece I will gather some good advice from a few web resources on Writing […]
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The Paris Review ‘MY FIRST TIME’ Series
The Paris Review’s “My First Time” video interview series. Writers talking about their first big work’s success and what it took. Watch the trailer for the series, and fifteen installments in the video and playlist below.