Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Coming in 2007
Happy Holidays!
South Florida writers,
Great news - begining January 2007, the Aventura Writers Group will meet twice a month on the second and forth Saturdays. The first meeting of the month will be a speaker/educational meeting. The second one will be a critique meeting. Both meetings will be held from 2 pm to 4 pm at North Miami Beach Library located on the corner of NE 164th Street & 16 Ave in North Miami Beach.
Here is our preliminary schedule for January and February:
January 13 & 27
February 10 & 24
This schedule was confirmed with the library, but they reserve the rights to change it. Keep checking this blog for any changes.
If you have a speaker in mind or want to make a presentation to the group on January 13 or February 10, please send me email with your or the speaker's name and a brief description of the presentation. Remember, our motto is "Writers help writers".
Re: critique meetings. Here is a proposed procedure (please feel free to send me your comments):
1. You must either send me email with your request or notify me at the speaker meeting that you want to present your Work-In-Progress (WIP) or manuscript at the next meeting.
2. If you want feedback on the entire manuscript:
- bring the five first pages and read it to the group
- based on the genre, someone will volunteer to critique it. You may either bring 2-3 copies with you or propose at the meeting how to pass the manuscript to the reviewer(s). Some people might prefer an electronic copy. Based on size of the manuscript, we will set up a timeframe for feedback. The author & reviewer(s) will decide how they will communicate.
I'll try to obtain a standard review form prior to January 27.
3. If you have WIP and want your peers feed back about a specific chapter, you will bring 10 or so copies and read it at the meeting and receive feedback right away.
This is very important that you notify me in advance that I could set up an appropriate schedule.
Feel free to contact me at m_most@yahoo.com before December 24th or after January 4th. I'll be spending Holidays and my son's birthday with his family on St Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
I hope you all'll have a wonderful and safe Holidays.
Mary
