Jordan Bernal, Vice President of the Tri-Valley Writers branch of the California Writers Club presented the winners of the High School Writing Contest with their awards. Several winning students who attended read their poems and short stories. A group photo is on Tri-Valley branch’s website: www.trivalleywritersdotorg. Neva Hodges and I were judges for the short […]
Las Positas Anthology Celebration
George Cramer, Marilyn Slade, Judy Lussie, and Julaina Kleist-Corwin at the celebration for PAGES BETWEEN, Las Positas College 2014 anthology. Titles of their short stories and Marilyn’s poem that were published are: “Too Scared” by George Cramer “How Many Years Ago Was That” by Marilyn Slade “Ryoichi’s Stepmother” by Judy Lussie “George W. Did It” […]
Congratulations
Celebrating the high school students who win awards in the Tri-Valley Writers Club’s short story contest. Also, Congratulations to the writers whose entries were included in Las Positas College’s anthology this year.
Weekend Events Locations Corrected
Thanks to writers George Cramer and Camille Thompson for correcting the locations for this weekend. Without George and Camille, I would have gone to the wrong place on Saturday. For those who plan to attend one or both, here is the right info. Saturday is the Las Positas College anthology launch. Sunday is the award […]
Awards Weekend
Saturday, we, the Tri-Valley Writers Club, will be handing out awards to the winners of our high school students’ writing contest. I was on the short story committee and we selected first, second, and third winners. Sunday, I’m invited to join the writers whose stories were selected to be in Las Positas College’s annual anthology. […]
Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead said, “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.” Do you agree? Why or why not?
What We Learn From Writing Our Novels
Julianna Baggott said, “…each novel teaches me how to write it.” I agree with her. I have three novels in my computer files. From the first one, I learned the characters limited my reading audience and how to write emotions into scenes. The second one, I learned to love rewriting and polishing it that I […]