 PENS OF PRAISE CHRISTIAN WRITERS GROUP Monday, January 20, 2025 1:30 – 3:00 p.m 4Given Coffee Shop 1034 S 18th St, Manitowoc, WI 54220 [email protected] Room 204 -3 on the second floor (Past the green charis!) How convenient—grab a coffee or tea at the 4Given Coffee shop (and a Danish if you’d like) and attend the meeting in the conference room, which is located on the 2nd floor. Thank you, Naomi for all the behind the scenes assistance that you provide! We appreciate you! REVIEWING STORY PLOTTING facilitated by Susan Marlene & guided by all of those attending. :) Don’t want to get stuck when writing your story? That would be peachy, but many of us fall into the mire of where do my characters go from here and who are they really? I’ve wandered around in my first attempts at writing stories before and it isn’t fun. This past year I admit to getting stuck in the mire and not knowing my characters well enough to proceed. Then I remembered to go back to the basics and revisit a book on writing called GMC GOAL, MOTIVATION, & CONFLICT by Debra Dixon. Ideas started firing! I’m focused. I’m back! Hooray! How about your project? I will plop down some helpful strategies and show you Debra’s book (one I believe every author should use) for navigating and creating characters and plot. Then let’s dig in and see what everyone is working on and wants help with. The great thing about GMC is that no matter what kind of writer you are (plotter or seat-of-the-pants) this book has direction for you and lot’s of milage on successfully published stories influence by these goal, motivation, and conflict principles. 😊 So we will keep back time from teaching for anyone who wants to bounce some ideas or brainstorm their work in progress—if they want to. We will try to get to everyone's projects, but we must work within the time allotted. I appreciate the wisdom of our group who honestly and kindly worked together to help and inspire one another! Be ready to learn some great info from each other and have a lot of fun! PROMPT: 2025 Goals to bring a good start! Pens meetings are free and encouraging! We hope to see you there! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact Susan Marlene@ [email protected]
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