I will be speaking at the Open Door Writing Group (at the Tyler Public Library) at 1pm on August 28, 2024 on the topic of “Elements of Crime Writing”. (If you think this sounds familiar, it’s because I did the same lesson at their night group a couple of weeks ago.) Come on over and join us!
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I will be speaking at the Open Door Writing Group (at the Tyler Public Library) at 1pm on August 8, 2024 on the topic of “Elements of Crime Writing”. Come on over and join us!
I will be speaking at the Open Door Writing Group – Night Group at the UU Fellowship of Tyler next Thursday, July 25, 2024 on the topic of “Story Beats and Echoes”. This is an updated version of what I taught at the day group, so come on over and join us!
I will be speaking at the Open Door Writing Group – Day Group on July 24, 2024 at 1pm at the Tyler Public Library on the topic of “Character Reactions”. Come on and join us! 🙂
I will be speaking at the Open Door Writing Group – Night Group next Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 6pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Tyler (1629 Old Omen Road in Tyler) on the topic of “Character Reactions”. Come on out and join us! 🙂
I will be speaking at the Open Door Writing Group at 1pm at the Tyler Public Library on April 24, 2024 on the topic of “How to Write for an Anthology”. Come on over and join us! Open Door Writing Group
I will be speaking at the newly formed Open Door Writing Group – Night Group at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (1629 Old Omen Road in Tyler, TX) at 6pm on April 18, 2024 on the topic of “How to Write for an Anthology”.
I’m trying to get everybody on board for the upcoming ODWG Frog Anthology!
Come on over and join us!
This month, word count was down again, at 8,833 words, nearly all lessons for ODWG again. Spring Break always throws things off, especially when friends and family have the other week off for their spring break.
I also tried to design a new closet for my writing/craft studio, which would have gone better if my closet had enough studs in the wall. But mostly I started the month sick, did a bunch of stuff with other people, then ended the month sicker than I started (flu, bronchitis, sinus infection, walking pneumonia). We decided not to do Easter with family because I was just so sick.
All I managed to do really was work on a crocheted blanket for a friend’s kid/kid’s friend that is very special to our family and is very sick herself right now.
This month, I managed 17,967, but 2/3 of it was lessons for the ODWG. I also tried to train a new membership chair for one of my local writing groups.
I wrote one really long poem about teeth. No, really. It started off about teeth and then it got weird. I also wrote a poem about grief that involved Pokemon. You know you want to read that one. (There were several other poems this month as well, but those were my favorites).
I also was the featured speaker of the month for my local writers guild. I spoke on “How to Get Back on Track After Life’s Disasters.”
In real life, I had to figure out how to do my local church’s annual certification because our board president’s life exploded that week. I attended the first of hopefully many delightful meetings of a local yarn group. I loom-knitted one sock and then tried to figure out how to regular knit it’s partner after my sock loom broke. I started a crocheted snowflake blanket.
I also spoke at two other groups, using the “How to Get Back on Track…” lesson as a starting point. Which was only funny because disasters kept making it so I almost didn’t get to speak at either group (first an epic hail storm and then a mass internet outage).
I also read The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammet.
I will be speaking at the Open Door Writing Group at the Tyler Public Library at 1pm on February 28, 2024 on the topic of “How to Get Back on Track after Life’s Little Disasters”. Come on over and join us! (I will try to promise a hail-free experience, unlike what happened last time I gave this lesson – hahaha)
Lisa Holcomb 