Carrollton Creative Writers' Club

Our mission: To provide information and critique,
and to facilitate the art of all forms of written expression.

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HOW CCWC CAME TO BE!
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"In November, 2005, Penny Lewis at the Carrollton Creative Arts Center asked if I would start a writers club to meet at the Center. Shortly afterward my friend, Beverly Bruemmer, made the same request. Feeling that was a mandate, or at least validation, I opened up to the idea, Penny advertised the club, and the Carrollton Creative Writers' Club was born.

With excellent programming, no elected officers and many gifted writers, our membership now numbers more than 30, five of whom have had books published within the past year.

It isn't unusual for people in Carrollton to drive in to Atlanta for meetings, but for people from Atlanta to drive to Carrollton for these meetings says it all. This is an entity whose time has come."

Mary Saxon Wilburn, Founder

Meeting location &
information:

Members Sell Books
at the Arts Center
Xmas Play!

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for more pics from
MayFest '08!

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for more info
on CCWC
at Mecca!
2007 Accomplishments!

NEED INSPIRATION?
Thoughts on writing:
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Pulitzer Prize winning author ELLEN GLASGLOW, in the preface of one of her books, shared her thoughts on writing novels. Her technique was to write the ending first -- the opening sentence and the last sentence before anything else. The characters well formed in her head before she began writing, it normally took her two years to finish a first draft and another year to revise. She believed the author was the best person to judge a book, and that every good book breaks the "conventions." "The true novel," she wrote, "is like pure poetry, an act of birth, not a device or an invention. It awaits its own time and has its own way to be born, and it cannot, by scientific methods, be pushed into the world from behind. After it is born, a separate individual, an organic structure, it obeys its own vital impulses. The heart quickens; the blood circulates, the pulses beat; the whole body moves in response to some inward rhythm; and in time the expanding vitatlity attains its full statue. But, until the breath of life enters a novel, it is as spiritless as inanimate matter." She went on to write how one should first master thouroughly the techniques of writing, and then dismiss them into the labyrinth of memory. "Leave it there to make its own signals and flash its own warnings." When one feels that "this isn't right" or "something ought to be different" is proof that the signals are working. "Or, perhaps," she wrote, "this inner voice may be only the sounder instinct of the born novelist."

WELCOME!

Looking for
hardworking writers who
share your passion?

Then you've come
to the "write" place!

Our members are all
about supporting
writers of all genres
and at all levels of
skill & accomplishment.

Please browse our
website, attend
a meeting... contact
us if we can
answer any questions.

Righting
The Writers Club

Sent by the Universe just to see
What kind of people speak with pens,
Privately I wondered, would I fit?
Should I laugh a little less brightly?

Observing and absorbing seemed the safest behavior.

I came from a place of searching.
Hoping to connect.
Wondering if other eyes see what mine see.

I took a big step in heavy shoes…and found Oz.

Faces flooded the room
The artist, the joker, the cynic
And then they began to ooze realness
fear
fantasy
too fat to phone
Beautiful children surfaced gently
In smile, words and sighs
My body said “Yes” silently, loudly.
There are others and they are close.
Thank you for two hours of glue to hold my week together.

People of the pen gather to give their specialness voice.
Sing their real song.
It's more than writing,
Writers gather to right themselves.

--Donna Spivey

**CCWC MEETING SPEAKERS**

SANDRA NOVACK

May 26, our guest speaker
was Sandra Novack,
(pictured here far right in yellow top)
author of "Precious,"
the novel recently released
by Random House.

After showing us a peek
into her process,
Sandra led us in a great
discussion of the
varieties of writing
processes and how they
differ from one author to another.

FRAN STEWART

Fran Stewart is the author
of the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series
as well as a children's book and a
manual on writing. She also interviews
authors on her weekly radio show.
She lives & writes quietly
in her house beside a creek
on the backside
of Hog Mountain, Georgia.

SYBIL ROSEN
Award-winning author
& playwright

(pictured left with
CCWC member
Claire Baker)
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Rosen spoke at our first
meeting of 2009,
discussing her new book

A sampling of other speakers over the years:

Patty Sprinkle Diane Z. Shore Maria Boling

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Members Recommended Reading:

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MITCH LITS' list of favorite books...
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