Yay! We finally had the first meeting of our writing group! I have to say, it was pretty great. An excellent turnout, met some new people, and felt a little smarter.
Since some people are far away, some may be busy, and some may just be lazy, I thought I'd make this site for writing group related things...or other stuff if you'd like.
We could use it to post info about meetings (insteading dozens of emails with updates, we could just update one blog post), stuff you've written that you'd like to share (PLEASE?), events you think others would want to attend, etc. If you think this is lame, shut up. This is awesome.
Anyway, let's get back to our first meeting. Thanks to everyone who came and to Kat for finding those readings which included some haiku.
I happen to hate haiku. I find them boring and weird. I will admit though, going over them with the group made them a bit more interesting. I still hate them though. But, for whatever reason, I decided to give myself a haiku writing assignment. Here we go:
Trees see Fall's ending.
Stripping naked, they shed leaves,
wait for snow showers.
Whaddya think? Am I going to give Basho a run for his money?
Finally, the next meeting will probably be February 10th. In the meantime, enjoy the Super Bowl!
4 comments:
Two comments:
"If you think this is lame, shut up. This is awesome."
haha Right on!
"Am I going to give Basho a run for his money?"
Holy crappola! One of my students just wrote a speech about that dude ("If I could be anyone for one day, I would be the world traveling yet reclusive haiku poet Matsuo Basho...")- I had never heard of him before!!! Nice to know that you guys are on the same page!! (Bad unintended pun, sorry.)
Thanks for getting this on the interweb- now I (and I'm guessing Christina and some others?) can join in the fun too! You guys rock!!! Can't wait to see what ya'll write!
I'm expecting you to contribute as well Japam.
thank you thank you thank you for setting this up!
haha I will! This will finally give me that extra push to copy David Sedaris that I've always wanted!!!
And I second (or should I say fourth?) the thank you for putting this group blog shizz together!
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