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Inside this issue:
This Year’s Speakers 2
July Nutz & Boltz 2
Writers Conference 3
Book Cover Contest 4
June Meeting in Review 5
Pat LaVigne Book
Review
6
June Nutz & Boltz in
Review
7
Ads 8
TNC Deadlines 9
ETWG Application 10
22
2017 ETWG Officers
Founder—”K” Sellers
President—Linda Pirtle Vice President—Nancy Larson Recording Secretary—Brinda Carey
Correspondence Sec—Pat LaVigne Treasurer—Marilyn Grounds
Historian—Linda Nelson Ellis TNC Editor—Janice Ernest Membership—April Coker
Publicity—Lynn Pinkerton WebSmith—Web Committee Hospitality—Lorna Penland
Conference Committee Linda Pirtle
Nancy Larson Caleb Pirtle April Coker
Roger Middleton Sandra Clarke “K” Sellers Marvin Mayer
Lynn Pinkerton Marilyn Herrington-Grounds
The Next Chapter July 2017 Edition
2017 Cover Contest Winners to be
Announced at the Conference
Did you go like our new Facebook Page Yet?
It is still not too late to register for the July
15, 2017 Conference:
“Keys to Successful Writing” Registration is on line at: www.etwritersguild.org. Click on 2017
Conference or you can register at the door.
Conference registration begins at 8:00 A.M. and
Conference starts at 9:00 A.M. at the TJC West
Campus off Loop 323 in Tyler, and finishes at 3:00
P.M. Lunch will be provided by Jason’s Deli, Tyler,
TX.
Visitors are always welcome. After three meetings, however, ETWG encourages you to become a member in order
to continue to receive The Next Chapter and be allowed full voting privileges & discounts on ETWG events.
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Look What’s Coming to July Nutz & Boltz?
.July: April Coker will share about writing blogs
Bring any other questions you might have and we’ll try to an-swer them. Send your ideas for fu-ture meetings to Nancy Larson, Vice-President, in charge of the topics. Her e-mail is [email protected].
We encourage you to always bring a friend.
Guess Who’s Coming to Speak This Year?
July: Prepare for Confer-ence
August: Jayna Morrow—Self Editing
September: Muffet Frische
October: Story Sharing
November: Joyce Buford
December: Christmas
Do you have a special subject you would like to see cov-ered at our monthly meet-ings? Let Nancy Larson know. It will help her to bring information which you can use.
East Texas Writers Guild 14th Annual Summer Conference
KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL WRITING Mystery, First Draft, Emotion, Drama, Humor
Saturday, July 15 * 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Tyler Junior College - West Campus - 1530 S SW Loop 323, Tyler, Texas 75701
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:30 – 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:30 Claire Sanders - How I Learned to Show and Not Tell 10:30 - 10:40 Break 10:40 - 12:10 Jamie Jones - The Craft of Rewrite – When Revising is Not Enough 12:10 - 1:30 Lunch catered by Jason’s Deli Announcement of winners of ETWG Blue Ribbon Book Cover Contest Fabulous Door Prizes 1:30 - 3:00 Patricia Burroughs – Writing With Passion 3:00 - 4:00 Mix and Mingle with speakers, authors & vendors
CONFERENCE FEE
$65 members; $75 non-members; $25 students; $10 Early Bird discount before June 1 (Lunch included)
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East Texas Writers Guild’s
Got ‘ya Covered Book Cover Contest 2017
And...The Winners Are:
Will Your Cover Be Here?
Good Luck!
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Janice Ernest came loaded for bear—-or at least, for alligators with her presentation on “How to make money with your writing.”
Using alligator hunting as a parable to illustrate the freelancing process and how to get started in it she made the concept of finding , hunting down, sub-mitting, and accepting publication into an easy ex-ample in order to give writers more confidence in their endeavors to get their name and their writing out on the market.
Some of the items which she addressed included :
Basic Accounting
The Discipline it takes to succeed.
Getting Organized
Time Studies and how they help
Your Writing Resume, 60 second elevator speech, bio, and brainstorming about what you’ve written.
And an assessment of What do you really want? And what are you willing to do to obtain it?
Her lecture is being followed by a tandem blog by herself and Creative Life Coach, Nikki Brown and will include steps to success in writing and in life.
Janice, who has continued to learn and enlarge her knowledge base about life, writing, and self aware-ness, will be sharing tools which she is using to make money with her writing.
Nikki will be discussing assistance in overcoming obstacles for the writer and for life in general and focusing on coaching for writers.
We invite you to join in this eight week series of blogs. Starting June 17, 2017 and going for the next
eight weeks. Read them at: www.janiceernest.com and at coachnikkib.com.
Janice Received Certificate of Appreciation for her speech, “Making Money With Your Writing,” from Linda Pirtle, President of the East Texas Writers Guild.
Our Speaker for June 2017 was Janice Ernest Speaking on Make Money with Your Writing
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Now, Raise Your Right Paw and Re-peat After Me:
I, (Your Name Here), promise to read and review books published by ETWG members, and to share in-formation about their successes, signings, interviews, with everyone I know on Facebook, Twitter, Blog, and other social media outlets.
All this in the knowledge that, when I am published, have an event, or in-terview, my fellow ETWG members will promote me.
Looking for something good to read? Pat LaVigne suggests: THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN;
The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Thomas Francis Meagher grew up in the midst of the famine, which plagued Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century. He saw the ravages of illness, starvation, untimely death, and the persecution of his beloved Ireland by the British government. Thomas was gifted with the ability to speak his mind, and speak his mind he did from the early days as a young man. He had a self-imposed mis-sion in life. He wanted to do all he could to alleviate the suffering all around him. From his home in Waterford, Ireland, he fought against those who were intent on oppressing all Irish, using the potato crop failures as fodder to force the people to acquiesce to English law. Thom-as caused such uprisings against the British that he was banished from Ireland and sent to Australia, to serve a life sentence in their penal system. Six months later, Thomas escaped, and through the help of friends, was able to arrange passage on a ship that would take him to America. He barely survived while waiting for that ship. His reputation as a “savior” for the Irish preceded his arrival in New York City. Thomas gained new opportunities to rally the Irish immigrants, whose lives were not much better than they had been in Ireland. During the years leading to the Civil War, Thomas, involved in the anti-slavery movement in the North, was also con-cerned for the Irish who had settled in the South. Events led to his involvement in the actual fighting as the Civil War began, and the War Department received the request to make Thomas a general of the Irish military, which he had brought together. Request was granted, and Thomas became a hero once more in his adopted homeland. Thomas Meagher went on to become governor of Montana. His death at age forty-three was much too soon for the man who had spent his life fighting for people oppressed by external forces. Timothy Egan has done extensive research in Ireland and the United States to put together a fasci-nating story of a man who loved to talk, and used his gift to become an outstanding hero in two coun-tries.
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have al-ways been the two most beauti-
ful words in the English lan-guage.”
― Henry James
The leader of this month’s Nutz & Boltz was Brin-da Carey. She brought a display showing many dif-ferent tools to use with your writing: A journal jar full of prompts Writers Digest Magazine—and showed how you can find prompts and contests in Writers Digest along with opportunities to submit to other journals and magazines. A photograph—-her advice: Take a photograph and begin to write down everything you see in it, then write down about the date or event pictured. Oftern times, good writing comes from this exercise. Observation—She stated always take a note book every where you go and write down your observa-tions and snipets of what you hear, see, touch , smell, etc. This can also be helpful to use when writing. She then lead the guild members in three writing exercises in order to stretch their creativity and not-ed that these exercises are good to help break through writers block. Everyone had a good time sharing their work and it was interesting to hear the different voices. Re-seults ranged from Poetry to prose. All of it inter-esting and different. A talk then ensued about what several writers have done to stave off writer’s block. Nancy Larson told of how she was stuck in one of the books of her Galveston series, and was walking back and forth to think What to do, what to do. In her walking back and forth she turned on the raqdio and Little Big Town was playing their song, Torna-do. It was as if her praqyers had been answered. She immediately went to her typewriter and put in a tor-nado in her story. The point being inspiration can come from anywhere.. If you missed this Nutz & Boltz you missed a lot of fun, fellowship, and good information. Hope to see you there in July. Till then, happy writing.
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June Nutz & Boltz in Review Brinda Carey, Writing Exercises
Never Stop Learning.
TJC West Campus Offers:
Courses in:
Marketing
Software
Website Development
Courses on Writing taught by our own Caleb Pirtle
Dance
Art
Business Management and Tools
Brinda Carey Cordially Invites You
to Attend “Writing My Story”
Class at the Tyler Area Senior Citi-zens Center (TASCA) each Wednesday from
12 PM until 2 PM
Need More Information?
Call: 903-780-6796
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Submission Deadlines for the TNC in 2017
January 2017 December 15, 2016
February 2017 January 13, 2017
March 2017 February 20, 2017
April 2017 March 17, 2017
May 2017 April 14, 2017
June 2017 May 12, 2017
July 2017 June 16, 2017
August 2017 July 14, 2017
September 2017 August 18, 2017
October 2017 September 15, 2017
November 2017 October 13, 2017
December 2017 November 17, 2017
January 2018 December 15, 2017
East Texas Writers Guild
Conference July 15, 2017 There will be no speaker for the July meeting, instead we will
be loading the goody bags for the conference.
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