May the 4th Be With You.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Today I want you to reach for the stars and make a little war up there
amongst the planets and nebula and black holes. Give me your best
spaceman story. Can be anything you want. “I don’t write science
fiction!” you say. I don’t write romance either — but I wrote an
entire book in the romance fiction. It taught me A LOT. Let this
exercise teach you at least. Make your space story more literary. Make
it more romantic. Just your setting has to be out there in the Milky
Way — the universe that is, not the candy bar. (hehe)

Write and Write and Write until you can’t write any more. Remember
we’re starting to get pieces together to be available for future
SnoValley Writes! events and publications as well as to send it out
into the world!

If you need direction on where to send a piece, feel free to Email me
and I’ll be glad to help. Need some one-on-one help? Be sure to take
advantage of the Writers Cafe stuff. If you’re not on the email list
to receive the notifications regarding them, and want to get the
reminders about the details, let me know.

Don’t forget! SnoValley Writes! is participating as a volunteer group
in the Warrior Dash. We are concentrating on getting volunteers for
the early morning on Saturday, July 16. It could mean quite the bounce
for our resources to receive the stipend as a non-profit and really do
some great literary good in our community.  I have 10 volunteers so
far. I need 15 more. 16 years and older is what is necessary. Can you
spare 4 hours on a Saturday morning in the summer? Please consider it
and if you want to join in on the fun, let me or any of the board
members (April, Sheri, Vicky or Sheila) know.

No Regular Work session this Sunday. Enjoy your Mother’s Day. Maybe
write a poem for mom? Write a story for her? Give her something truly
from your creative heart.

Our next regular work session and big annual meeting is May 22 (3 p.m.
North Bend Library Meeting Room). Please be there — consider this
your opportunity, too, if you’re one of our “lurkers.” We don’t bite.
We have a lot of fun and we give you permission to write! What’s there
to be afraid of — except that you might actually get to do what you
love to do!

And now your moment of Writing Zen:
“Ever failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~Samuel Beckett.

*PS. Saturday is free comic book day:  Participating comic book shops
give comic books away absolutely free. freecomicbookday.com (and by
the way, comic book companies hire writers, too.)

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What did you Write today?
~Casz

Casondra Brewster
Moderator/Founder
Sno Valley Writes!
Helping Writers Reach New Literary Peaks Since 2008
http://www.snovalleywrites.org
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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord Byron