Tag: writing group
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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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Author of the Week – Saki (AKA Hector Hugh Munro / H. H. Munro -18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916)
This week we are reading a very short story called ‘Reginald On House-Parties’ by Saka (aka H.H. Munro) – let’s take a look at this author’s biography: from WIKIPEDIA Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous […]
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Story / Reading of the Week For The Monarch Writers – For 4/18/2022 We are Looking At – Reginald on House-Parties By H.H. Munro (Saki)
A few weeks ago we discussed a piece on short story craft from John Cheever ‘Why I Write Short Stories’ which alluded to short stories being a cultural affair with a place in society and a meaning for history and communication – while that meaning itself shifted and changed perhaps somewhat with the drafts left […]
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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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Weekly Writing Prompt – 10/3/2021 – 10/10/2021 – ‘UP the LINE, DOWN the LINE, OVER the LINE, CROSSING the LINE, WRITING the LINE’
What would it cost if one could write the Perfect Line? Let’s talk about the sound of the phone outside of TexacoFrom bell south down to a southern belleLet’s talk about the sound of the phone outside of TexacoFrom bell south down to a southern belleLet’s talk about the sound of the phone outside of […]
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WRITING PROMPT – “It’s really not that you can’t see the forest for the trees…”
Go ahead you can laugh all you wantI got my philosophy [Keeps my feet on the ground]And I trust it like the ground [Ground]That’s why my philosophy [My phil–]Keeps me walking when I’m falling down [–osophy]
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Join Our New Mailing List – The Monarch FlutterStorm
The Monarch Writers are starting a new email dispatch – The Monarch FlutterStorm – The Monarch Writers, your friendly St. Louis-based neighborhood Writers’ Group, is coming out of hibernation after the pandemic to start in person meets once again, and we want to find better ways to connect with you! We want to invite you […]
