Word Addicts Bulletins

September 14, 2021 Ray, Homer and Marla enjoy a pleasant evening during our September meetup.   •The meeting was held on James’ birthday in his adorable backyard and it was a lovely night. Great food, great ambiance, great people.  I’ll post pics at the end of the email ;) •James gave us a rundown of the online stuff. We have about 60 Word Addicts members total and 120 email subscribers.  We have 2,000 Twitter followers, 80 Instagram Followers (better than 10 I guess haha!), and 600+ Facebook followers/friends.  •A huge benefit for members is the online presence and promotion that we offer as a group. The requirements to receive these benefits are as follows: -Be local member  -Write for the blog once a year  -Contribute in some way to the yearly anthology  •To get a book promoted (3 social media posts and an email), authors have to write a short article on a very narrow topic. We’ve thrown around the idea of doing a series of social media posts featur...

 Here are the meeting minutes and reminders from our August meeting. It was a fantastic meeting. I really loved it and I’m so thankful to those that came and contributed! It was really one of the good ones!! (Did I make those of you who couldn’t come jealous yet? - I’ll fill you in on what you missed ;) Carin started our meeting with a lesson on her experience with the book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. It was very inspirational and Carin did such a wonderful job of connecting creativity with our life and our spirits and our connection to a higher power. She conveyed her feelings about how creativity is innate in us and by cultivating it and releasing it we can improve so much about ourselves and our lives. This is a very watered down version of her lesson so I hope I am doing an okay job of explaining it. I’ll send a pic of her handout below. If you are feeling blocked in someway creatively, “The Artist’s Way” has been recommended by a few group members so it is probably wo...

  I am kind of doing the walk of shame with this email - I completely forgot to send it after the meeting! But it was really great and we missed all those who couldn’t make it. Here’s a quick recap of the meeting: James read a poem and it was wonderful. Lawrence gave us a lesson on writing as it pertains to a visual piece of art and what to think about as you create art. And we went over everyone’s goals. Also, we met Zoe for the first time - welcome Zoe! For next month Ray and Natalie are going to share something with us as it pertains to their monthly goal and we can’t wait for them to share it with us! Natalie is bringing a Demi board and Ray is bringing a cover art for us to see. James has accepted the assignment of teaching the group in May.  Monthly goals:  Ray - bring one cover art for us to see.  Amy J - Finish rewrite and complete a blog post Natalie - bring a Demi board Homer - 4 songs typed up by next month  Marla - next short story subject James - ro...

(Copied from Jenna Madsen's email sent on February 10)  Hey Writing Group Friends! Last night’s meeting was really great and I just wanted to thank everyone who came and contributed. Hopefully we all left knowing that we have a team of people cheering us on and supporting us through our writing endeavors! Heres a quick recap to remind us all what happened and to inform anyone who wasn’t able to attend: Meeting attendees: Ray, Amy J, Natalie, Lawrence, Homer, Marla and Jenna Date/Time: Feb 9, 7:05-8:05 (we might need to start a titch earlier next time so we can end by 7:50) Place: Sheps Grill -Short recap of January meeting and Anthology deadlines (see James’ previous email for those) -We talked about we’re working on right now and what our individual writing goals are for 2021 (it was great!): Ray: He has 4 novels written (yay!) so we challenged him to start the publishing process on just one! We’ll check in next month to see what steps he's taken ;) Amy: She has a good start o...

Date: January 12, 2021 Place: Fountain Green General Store, 84 S Main Fountain Green, UT Time: 6:30 p.m. We had a big meeting this month. I think that will be our January meeting from year to year: A lot of big decisions.   Direction For Word Addicts We had a whirlwind year last year with huge changes and big goals.  As the dust has settled, here's the direction we've found: We have our local Word Addicts and our expanded group of Word Addicts. We will have our local meetings where we conduct writing exercises and give feedback, etc...Then we will have our expanded group who will participate in our anthology. This will include local and non-local writers. The expanded anthology group will do all of its work online through messaging apps, email, Google Docs, Google Meet, etc... Election: Nominations were made, and seconded, and affirmed by those present. James presided over the meeting and the election was held near the end. President: Jenna Madsen  Vice-president: Ra...

 We had a good meeting, shared great info from our Critiques. Natalie's critique was a real blessing! News From The Meeting 1. Critiques: To avoid assigning people who may not want to participate, I'll be sending an email asking people to sign up for critiques if they are interested in receiving feedback from another Word Addict. 2. Assignment: Jenna and Cortney have decided on a group messaging system that will meet all our needs. They will present it to us at our next meeting. 3. Assignment: We'll make sure our logo is maintained across platforms so people can identify our group from among other pages with similar names. 4. Word Addicts Marketing: Amy J, Amy S and Cortney will be asked to discuss what kinds of books we will and will not officially market under our logo and accounts. Language, sexual content, political, religious, etc...should all be part of the discussion.