We are continuing on our journey in our created Poor Man’s MFA Program. All of this will teach you to be a better writer via exercises in art immersion and observation of the literary world and beyond.

Coming up we’re going to have each one of you complete a portfolio of sorts, that has you examining other work. Learning from others makes our own work better. In the end you’ll have 3 book reveiws, 8 literary journal responses, and 4 essays on community/cultural activities (two of which should occur preferably outside the valley). The great thing is the “portfolio” will be proof of your involvement in the writing world. Ideally this portfolio will appear on your blog, enhancing your online presence — another write-life facet we’ll discuss in the upcoming workshop.

Book Reviews is where we are going to start.You need to figure out which three books you are going to write a review on. In the Feb. 25th Workshop after we do our Online Profile piece, we’ll be gin to dive into what this is all about. So your prompt here is to pick the three books you plan to do a review on. Please have only one of the books one you’ve already read. Pick your favorite author if you like, but be sure that it’s a new book by them you haven’t read. Bonus points in the end if the books have been published no earlier than 2011.

RSVP to let me know how many of you will be there at the North Bend Library at 6 p.m. Have tablet, laptop, notebook at the ready. Also bring your three book choices.

Hope to hear from many of you.

And now your moment of Writing Zen:

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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
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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