Journey to the Edge of a Rhinestone Reality

As sirens blare - and spotlights shine, you freeze, caught with too many commas in your pants; a suspicious semicolon in your jacket pocket; a trail of ellipses points straight to you…. A dangling participle dangles from your hip pocket, and your pen leaks ink -- all over your paper.

The Grammar Police! are coming to get you. But do you care? No! Yes! They terrify me! I ignore them!

When you write, do you write with the grammar police in mind or do you just get your story out and hope for the best? Do you use an editor or beta reader? Is a PI certification important? How do you take grammar critique? Is it important? Why or why not?

Come share your thoughts tonight at 7 pm pacific in the Ballroom of TheMasque.net

Time: June 19, 2008 at 7pm
Location: The Ballroom
Website or Map: http://www.themasque.net
Event Type: playdate
Organized By: Benevolent Goddess

Tonight at 8pm pacific in the Ballroom, we have our first meeting of the Writers Guild. Now this is not your average hen fest of chat. We’re going to discuss writing and the process, work through writing blocks and dissect problem areas in stories with the hopes of helping the author solve those problem to produce a really great piece.

We're also going to have a Q & A time after the discussion for specific solutions to a problem ie. verb agreement, compound sentences, run on sentences, how to make a piece stand out etc... you have the problem, one of us will more than likely have the solution.

We're all here to help one another grow and succeed with our writing endeavors. So I will ask nicely once. Please make sure all comments are constructive and well intended.

Please glance over the work posted on The Portego’s Writer’s Guild group as it will be under discussion specifically, followed by general discussion of process.