Third Thursday Review

Members are starting to return as the weather gets colder, though we still aren't operating at full strength. Still, our Third Thursday meeting was spirited and informative. With only two manuscripts to critique (from Zack and Kay), we spent nearly an hour delving into other aspects of the writing business.

1. Writing Tips from Diana Gabaldon. Kay reviewed some of what she learned at DragonCon from author Diana Gabaldon (The Outlander series). I don't have good notes on this, so Kay may want to present them in-depth here at a later date.
2. I discussed news I received a literary agent recently, which led to a look at the way agents sign clients and how to write a good query letter.
3. Kay has asked that anyone submitting work for the November publishing for the Chronicle book fair do so by the end of the month.
4. Crystal requested that we cover ways to create a proper story outline, so I will do so in a future blog post and possibly discuss it deeper at a future meeting.

Next meeting we have three submissions: one from Zack, one from Sandy (submitted through email) and one from Gino, making his first submission to the group.

The next meeting is October 7th at 7pm. Hope to see you there!