Meeting Minutes July 15, 2012

Danielle shared with the group a new website called www.bloggerdise.com where writers can go to promote their work. The owner is trying to connect businesses with people who blog on the internet. Writers create a banner ad of their book for free. Bloggers see it and choose to look further to read and review the book.

Marilyn reported that Gloria Nye's book is now available on Amazon. You can purchase it through our Amazon bookstore http://astore.amazon.ca/headwritguil-20.

Marilyn read an introduction to her personal anthology she is publishing called Short Tales from a Tall Person. Joe read an introduction to his story on his blog. Nancy shared a chapter from her re-vamped story (sorry, Nancy, I didn't catch the title).

The prompt provided by Marilyn was as follows:

You are a newsperson interviewing a famous person and the interview will be published in your magazine. Please write out the interview - your questions, and their answers, based on the following persons and their subjects:

Jack Spratt - His marriage
Albert Einstein - What hair products he uses
Abraham Lincoln - Why he became a vampire hunter
Mao Tse Tung - How did the little red book come about?
Mike Tyson - Why does he feel so misunderstood by women?
Adoph Hitler - What was it like growing up in Austria
Tammy Faye Bakker - Make-up techniques to make you look younger
Ozzy Osbourne - The flavours of different species of bats
Elvis Presley - The challenges of going through hip surgery
Sandra Bullock - Challenges of growing up in Canada
Fay Wray - What was it like having King Kong as your main squeeze?
Henry VIII - What are his thoughts on marriage?

We had some very entertaining results from this prompt. I hope those in attendance will share their writing on this blog. And those who weren't, try the prompt yourself and post it here. I will be posting mine.

The next meeting is Sunday, August 26th. Judy will be leading.

Have a great summer!