Cathy Dziubla
Bernardo Gonzalez
Pam Gonzalez
Luneil Morrow
Joan Pulsateri
Suzy Stueben
Judy Whitcomb
NEW MEMBER:
Welcome to Magic Hour Writers Suzy Stueben who joined our group this week. She brings Zilla, the little garden gnome who just can’t garden. Glad you are with us, Suzy.
MEMBER NEWS:
Pam’s new magazine for the church she works for will be out by
Sunday 9/15 that is “Back to Church” Sunday. Celebration
Magazine will be published quarterly.
The magazine will contain more personal stories than the church’s weekly
publication such as:· A story about a teacher who gave up computers for lent
·
A selection written by a teenage girl
Pam works with a retired editor who is a church member. She plans on bringing copies to share to our
next meeting.
Bernardo has been
approached by a new commander of his platoon to create an email newsletter for
the platoon. The newsletter will contain information about events, military
news, etc. Another important feature
will be information about job fairs and other employment opportunities. Some service personal have employment issues when
returning to non-military life.
Suzy had an
interesting trip with a friend who invited her because she was at the top of
her friend’s “crazy-enough-to-do-it” list.
The trip was to the Mansfield Ohio
State Reformatory.
The reformatory was opened in the 1800s on what had been a
civil war camp. It has been the site of
movies such as the Shawshank Redemption
and Airforce 1. The architecture was very interesting with a
huge discrepancy in style between the warden and other prison personnel’s area
and the prisoner’s. There are Ghost Tours offered there where people may even stay
overnight. Suzy’s group didn’t do that
but she had a great experience anyway.WRITING:
Luneil shared a story that she is planning on submitting to a Chicken Soup publication. The story was about the time her daughter had a major stroke and was in a coma at a time when Luneil’s husband was becoming very ill. It was a beautiful story. Our group gave basically grammatical suggestions for editing.
Cathy then read a
short essay that she wrote a while ago about two conjoined twins that
subsequently died after their birth. The
uplifting essay framed her reaction to a newspaper article that told about the
twins. Cathy’s work focused on all the
reasons the twins should have lived, although briefly.
Suzy shared the
further adventure of Zilla. In this
section, Zilla’s efforts are aided by the family’s children. The twin boys spent most of the time running
around the garden while Zilla decided that there should be a rest spot in the
garden under the shade of a half dead tree.
All this occurred as Purr, the cat, was enjoying a saucer of milk at the
tea party.
Judy read from
her Emma and Guenever story. Although she had read it before, she hadn’t
done much with it in a year or so but started to work on it again recently and
had revised it. She is hoping to turn it
into a chapter book for middle grade students.
Pam suggested that she thought the use of “Mom and Dad” stood out from
the tone of the language used. With the
help of suggestions from the group, Judy decided to change it to “Mum and Da”. Bernardo did a sketch of Emma that Judy
thought was right on.
COOK BOOK
DISCUSSION
We reviewed the current state of the cook book. Everyone is going to try to fill in the
gaps. We hope that all members of MHW
will be represented with at least one entry.We also discussed some options for getting the book into print. The only conclusion that we came to is it will be costly. More future discussion is necessary.
Judy shared the picture of Luneil’s Doxie the Dog that she did. Everyone liked it. In view of Bernardo’s artistic ability, we suggested he do some of the illustrations for the book. They don’t all have to be the computer graphics Judy does.
For the next meeting, Judy will do a dummy book of what we
have at that point.
Miscellaneous
·
Next meeting, Judy will bring her computer and
demonstrate Dragon Dictate and Scrivener (a writer’s organizational
writing program)
·
After the meeting a few members discussed
meeting more than once a month. We will
discuss that at the next meeting.
jlw
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