In early December, when I saw an announcement on Facebook about buses chartered to take women from Tuolumne County to Sacramento on January 21, 2017, I signed up. I didn’t have well-defined expectations. I simply wanted to be with other … Continue reading
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Women’s March- Sacramento- Part 1
Writers Groups- Adding Members
When I was pregnant with my third child, I read that each time a new child enters a family, a number of new relationships are formed, that number being relative to the number of people already in the family. In … Continue reading
Writers Group Guidelines
Last time, I wrote about the challenges of maintaining a committed writers group. I promised that in the next post I would list the guidelines that have proven effective in my writers groups. Here they are: We agree … Continue reading
I Love My Writers Group
I can’t say enough good things about my writers group. They are kind but astute critics. They are dependable both in putting writing first in their lives and in making our group meetings a priority. We celebrate one another’s successes, … Continue reading
Writers Conferences & Festivals: Why Go?
Yesterday, I put together a registration form for the 2009 Medocino Coast Writers Conference. This morning I read an article in Poets & Writers (May/June 2009) entitled “Conferences, Festivals Taking a Hit.” The juxtaposition helped me answer a question I’d … Continue reading