Wednesday, February 12, 2025
1:30 – 3:00 p.m
4Given Coffee Shop
1034 S 18th St, Manitowoc, WI 54220 info@4givencoffee.com
Room 204 -3 on the second floor (Past the green chairs!)
How convenient—grab a coffee or tea at the 4Given Coffee shop (and a Danish if
you’d like) and attend the meeting in the conference room, which is
located on the 2nd floor.
Thank you, Naomi, for all the behind-the-scenes assistance that you provide! We
appreciate you!
REVIEWING STORY PLOTTING facilitated by Susan Marlene & guided by all
of those attending. :) Don’t want to get stuck when writing your
story? That would be peachy, but many of us fall into the mire of where my
characters go from here and who are they really. I’ve wandered around in my
first attempts at writing stories before and it isn’t fun. This past year I
admit to getting stuck in the mire and not knowing my characters well enough to
proceed. Then I remembered to go back to the basics and revisit a book on
writing called GMC GOAL, MOTIVATION, & CONFLICT by Debra Dixon.
Ideas started firing! I’m focused. I’m back! Hooray!
How about your project? I will plop down some helpful strategies and show you
Debra’s book (one I believe every author should use) for navigating and
creating characters and plot. Then let’s dig in and see what everyone is
working on and wants help with. The great thing about GMC is that no
matter what kind of writer you are (plotter or seat-of-the-pants), this book
has direction for you and lots of mileage on successfully published stories
influenced by these goal, motivation, and conflict principles.
So we will keep back time from teaching for anyone who wants to bounce some
ideas or brainstorm their work in progress—if they want to.
We will try to get to everyone's projects, but we must work within the time
allotted. I appreciate the wisdom of our group who honestly and kindly
worked together to help and inspire one another!
Be ready to learn some great info from each other and have a lot of fun!
PROMPT: 2025 Goals to bring a good start!
Pens meetings are free and encouraging! We hope to see you there!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to
contact Susan Marlene@ susanmarlenewrites@gmail.com
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