About that book you’ve got in you. . .

. . . or it might be a little gem of a short story:

We’ve got a space at the Whiteway Centre where you can coax it out onto the page.

Whether you’re looking at your first blank page or you have a manuscript almost ready for the printer, you can bring it to an enthusiastic group of friendly, supportive and encouraging fellow writers and readers who are interested in their own writing -- and yours.

Every week we’ll consider some aspect of fiction-writing: the creative parts, like plotting and dialogue and making characters; the necessary technical tools, like paragraphs and chapters and tenses; and the pesky little stuff like semicolons ;) and speech marks.  We’ll discuss your ideas and questions and we’ll look at how published writers have managed those things.

Then you’ll go away, full of inspiration, to write.

Every week we’ll read and talk about each other’s work in a safe atmosphere of helpful criticism and good ideas.

And every week, you become a better writer.

Claudia Gould, writer/facilitator, published writer with over 20 years teaching experience. She’s a published novelist (Benjamin the True, Kahn & Averill) and short story writer (Jesus in America and Other Short Stories, Utah State University Press)