What a fantastic meeting of the minds we had today! Here is a quick recap.
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Ryan shared the concept of story engineering and the three layers of a story-or was it a character? I missed it... hopefully he can share that here as a post or a comment. His kids are a great inspiration for him and we all agreed writing with his kids as character is a lovely idea. He is currently planning two very different stories.
Lan just entered her synopsis and first ten pages into the Writer's League of Texas' manuscript contest. We wish you luck, but your work stands for itself and we know your agent/author review will be fantastic-AND you will be a winner!
Katie is about three quarters through with her YA manuscript and is happy to see the end in sight. She needs a swift kick in the butt to keep going!
A couple topics to keep up with:
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- Contest sponsored by Writer Digest-15th Free Dear Lucky Agent Contest
- Using professional editors before sending queries and pages to agents
- Self publishing using Kindle (woot woot Ryan!) Isaiah the Dinosaur Hunter by Ryan Bender
- Adding a second meeting each month (now the 2nd and last Sunday) and may change the location to the European Cafe on Fort Hood Rd.
Shout out: please share your favorite writing website/writer's tool as a comment. I've added mine to the links list on the right. Yours will be added there as well.
