Explorations in Creative Writing Club Summary, July 19, 2008 The Explorations in Creative writing club convened promptly at 9 a.m. Pacific, noon Eastern in the friends of Bookshare classroom. Our guest speaker today was Nan Hawthorne, author of the soon-to-be-released novel, "An Involuntary King." Nan talked with us about how the book came to be, gave tips for creating characters & doing research, &provided resources she found helpful. She also talked about the increasing trend toward "indie publishing". The last half hour was spent fielding questions from the audience. There is no way a brief summary such as this could even begin to do justice to her presentation, & I would urge those who missed it but who'd nonetheless like to improve their writing or who are interested in learning more about her book to listen to the archive when it's put up on the friends of Bookshare site. The Explorations in Creative Writing group sincerely & wholeheartedly thanks Nan for spending her time with us to do this presentation. I also wish to express my appreciation to everyone who attended. Writers' Topics for 7/19-7/26 1) 1 Christmas 2) What I'll Miss in Heaven 3) What I want heaven to be like 4) A long trip 5) HOme 6) Havin the Blues 7) Sunday Mornin comin' down (after Johnny Cash) -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net & please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.