Author: Joyce

Mood and Atmosphere
Emotional resonance is key to captivating an audience, binding them to the pages and ensuring that the story lingers in their minds long after the last word is read.

Reading and discussing
We’ll share our work with one another, aloud. We’ll compare notes on the writing of last meeting’s Challenge and we’re going to do some writing.

Character developmemt
You can make them loveable or hateful, just remember that the more interesting the character, the more invested your readers will be in their outcomes.

Words to be heard
You may not know this, but your writing sounds differ from what you hear in your head. Reading aloud provides unexpected benefits.

Emotions in writing
One of the most powerful writing skills an author can have is the ability to tease emotions into the hearts of their readers.

Metaphors
Metaphors are woven so intricately into the fabric of language that we almost don’t notice them, but metaphors and similes help us think more deeply.

To be a Writer
Do you ever ask yourself why you decided to be a writer? What do you want out of it? And about your wishes and dreams, are you getting there?

The Creative Journey
A huge misconception about creativity is it’s all fun and games. Doodle! Play! Come up with ideas and it’s true… but do you want something to show for it?

Rhythm in Writing
Did you knoow here’s music in writing? Writing can stutter and stumble or hop and skip putting a smile on your face. Rhythm is hugely underrated in writing.

Mood and Atmosphere
The mood and atmosphere of a piece of writing creates its emotional complexion—it conjures the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader.

Magic in your bucket
Thanks to Justin Zackham and Jack Nicholas we know what a bucket list is. So what’s in your bucket and how do you make the magic?

New Years’ in October
Summer’s over, autumn is here. Now I can stop procrastinating and find inspiration to write more! But how?

We end with Poetry
Writing is a journey. May you travel that road well and find success in your travels this summer.

Selected Poetry
You can enjoy and even write poetry without analyzing it but doing so can reap rich rewards!

Your Tone
“Don’t take that tone of voice with me!” Hear that? They’re responding to how the tone of your words made them feel.

Harnessing Your Imagination
What is this ability to experience others’ emotions, their world, or the pebble in their shoe?

We will be holding an open mic coffee house for writers via zoom on Wednesday, March 23, 2022.

The Nature of Creativity
What is creativity, who are creative writers, what is creative literature and what makes it so?

The Writers’ Needs
Henry Van Dyke said that, “The woods would be silent if no bird sang but the one that sang the best.”

Tools at Your Disposal
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion which, along with grammar and logic, are considered…