Author: Diego Salazar

Time for our monthly LCW meeting! We’ve had a lot of presentations in the past months on things like story structure, the hero’s journey, and more We’re going to be a bit more writing focused this month to try to put this into action. Less talky, more writey!

Please bring something to write or type on!

Where

Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.

When

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday May 10th, 2025

Agenda

1. Call to Order
2. Welcome New Members
3. Membership and Financials
4. Member Accomplishments
5. Reading by Rosemary
6. Flash fiction writing prompt
7. Making an effective blurb + exercise
8. Object prompt
9. Image prompt
10. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
11. Adjournment

April showers bring May flowers! So perhaps what we learn this month will make a big difference in our writing in May. That’s definitely what that means! Either way, to the agenda!

Where

Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.

When

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday April 12th, 2025

Agenda

1. Call to Order
2. Welcome New Members
3. Membership and Financials
4. Member Accomplishments
5. Presentation on The Hero’s Journey by Efrem
6. Applying the Hero’s Journey to known stories
7. Applying the Hero’s Journey to our stories
8. Reading by YOU????
9. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
10. Adjournment

March meeting! The schedule has changed slightly from what was previously planned, on account of the presenter of The Hero’s Journey being unable to attend. Hero’s Journey will be moved to April. But we’ve got plenty to cover otherwise. See the agenda below.

Where

Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.

When

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday March 8th, 2025

Agenda

1. Call to Order
2. Welcome New Members
3. Membership and Financials
4. Member Accomplishments
5. Seven month check in on LCW (was supposed to happen last time)
6. Presentation on story structure by Kevin Schulmeister.
7. Follow up discussion on different ways to structure a story
8. Structuring exercise (yes I have a fun one in mind)
9. Discussion on writing as art and a force for movement (social, political, thought, etc)
10. Reading by YOU????Time & Date of next meeting reminders
11. Adjournment

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s get this year kicked off right with a Las Cruces Writer’s Group meeting. The theme this month is poetry!

Where

Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.

When

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday January 11th, 2024

Agenda

1. Call to Order
2. Welcome New Members
3. Membership and Financials
4. Member Accomplishments
5. Poetry discussion
6. Gretchen poetry reading and short talk
7. Fenton poetry reading and short talk
8. Rosemary poetry reading and short talk
9. Jan poetry reading and short talk
10. Poetry writing exercise
11. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
12. Adjournment

Where

Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.

When

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday November 9th, 2024

Agenda

1. Call to Order
2. Welcome New Members
3. Membership and Financials
4. Member Accomplishments
5. George secret presentation time (15 min)
6. Freewriting exercise
7. Discussion on inspiration
8. Discussion on what makes a good book (for you!)
9. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
10. Adjournment

Where

Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.

When

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday October 12th, 2024

Agenda

1. Call to Order
2. Welcome New Members
3. Membership and Financials
4. Member Accomplishments
5. Get to know each other (introductions and greetings)
6. Reading by Fenton Kay and critique (30 min)
7. Open discussion on writing tools and software (Scrivener, etc.)
8. Booknanza discussion, October workshop announcement
9. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
10. Adjournment

Critique Reading Material

Please follow the link below to read the material authored by Fenton Kay prior to the meeting. We provide this in advance so the membership can come to the meeting with some thoughts and to optimize the short time we have together. The password will be sent out to the membership via mailing list. If you did not receive it for whatever reason, please contact the executive committee of the LCW.