Our July 2012 Book Club Selection: Writing Subtext

Our July 2012 book club selection for our books on writing club is Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath by Dr. Linda Seger.   Come join our meetup group to participate in the discussion either online or in person.

Reviews

Like our own book club discussion, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One , our June 2012 book club selection, has received mixed reviews.  It did make for a very lively discussion though!  Read some of the reviews of Fish's book on Goodreads.

Writing a crime scene or police story?

Just got this in:

What a great idea for those of you writing police or crime-based stories.

Writer's Homicide School

Are you writing a thriller, mystery, crime or police based story? Want to make sure that your action and dialogue is as authentic as possible? Then The Writer's Homicide School is a must for you.  Detective Derek Pacifico, a 22-year vet of of the San Bernandino County Sheriff's Department will go over proper police protocol for reading crime scenes, doing forensics, interrogating suspects and much, much more.

When: June 2-3, 2012, 9AM-3PM

Where: The Satellite, 3110 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405 (3rd Floor)

Price: $299 with discount code WHS (normally $350)

Go to www.filmmakerjunction.com/events/writers-homicide-school/ to purchase tickets and see the topics Detective Pacifico will cover.

Our writing craft book club selection

This May / June we are reading How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish.  Read and discuss with us online or in person at our Meetup Group:  http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Books-About-Writing-Book-Club/

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Hermosa Beach writers group starts Tuesday night

This is just a quick reminder that the Hermosa Beach writers group starts on Tuesday, April 10th (7:00pm - 9:30pm).

 

Sign up or get more info here

Also the next Writer Monkeys! show is Sunday, April 22nd at 7:00pm at M.i.'s Westside Comedy Theater.

Hello, Santa Clarita!

We wish our Santa Clarita, California charter writers group participants a fabulous and creative first night! Thank you and wishing you many creative writing nights to come!!

Article on how to be funny when writing comedy

It's not very often I come across an exceptional blog article that helps aspiring comedy writers improve their craft. Comedy writing often presents as easy to write because usually the writer or speaker makes it look so damn natural and easy.  It seems like magic. On more than one occasion, I've found myself gazing admiringly into a writer's eyes who just wrote something that lead my writers group into unexpected gasping and snorting fits of laughter. My many stand-up comedian friends used to say, "Comedy is serious business." So naturally, comedy writing must be REALLY serious business. Today Writer's Digest published an article called, 10 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING WHILE THINKING LIKE A COMEDY WRITER helps simplify it just a little bit, and every little bit helps.  The article lists ten excellent tips on penning with a more comedic angle. Do you know of any other good comedy writing blog posts or articles floating around on them there interwebs?  If so, please post them in the comments for our other readers to check out.