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Minutes, poetry, Writing

Minutes April 2025

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Writers’ Mill Minutes, April 27, 2025

Cedar Mill Library, Beaverton and online Zoom

Ten participants attended online, and eight were present in the library meeting room, for a total of eighteen. We welcomed four newcomers to the group. Ron led the meeting in Sheila’s absence from the meeting room (she was present online.) Matthew assisted Librarian Christine Wong with technology. Jean took Minutes. Our guest speaker Carolyn Martin greeted everyone, and Ron introduced this month’s contest/ezine host Mary B to announce the awards.

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Guest Speakers, poetry, senses, Writing

Carolyn Martin Workshop July 2021

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Carolyn Martin’s Workshop: “It Happens This Way”:

Before diving into the actively creative part of the workshop, Carolyn reminded us that fallow time—a time to rest, reflect, read, collect—is also valuable for the poetic brain. Like seeds in fallow soil, more bountiful production will emerge. Resting prepares for creativity.

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Minutes, poetry, senses, Writing

Writers’ Mill Minutes 202107

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WRITERS’ MILL MEETING

July 18, 2021

Minutes with thanks to Jean Harkin

Attendance: 16 via Zoom (thanks to Laura Baca at Cedar Mill Library). Laura announced this will be her last meeting as library host with Writers’ Mill. She introduced Jennifer Keyser, who will be her replacement for a while. The group applauded and thanked Laura for her valuable assistance to Writers’ Mill during the last few years.

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anthologies, poetry, publishing, query letters, submission guidelines, Where to send it

Writers’ Mill Minutes 202101

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With several new members, we started our meeting by reminding everyone of who we are: the Writers’ Mill, writers helping writers, meeting on the 3rd Sunday of every month. We all agree that our librarian is fantastic and Zoom is wonderful (if occasionally challenging). And maybe one day there’ll be mixed real-and-virtual meetings—it’s a dream, but please be thinking about how it might work. And on the subject of dreams… we run monthly contests online for which this month’s topic was dreams. Von announced the results, and you should have already received them from our contest coordinator, unless you’re a new member (in which case I’ve only just added you to the list):

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exercise, flash, Guest Speakers, novel, poetry, story structure, Writing

Writing Methods (June 2020 Sheila Deeth)

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Sheila had promised to talk about writing methods, aphorisms, rules, etc. But she started by pointing out that, while some rules (like don’t touch live wires) are not meant to be broken, others (like show don’t tell) represent simply one way of looking at things. So we looked at proverbs and their opposites. Such as:

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Guest Speakers, inspiration, poetry, Writing

Inspiration with Carolyn Martin, April 2019

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Carolyn Martin  should need no introduction; but for anyone who’s not been to one of Carolyn’s Writers’ Mill workshops before, she’s  a Portland poet with an absolutely beautiful website (just follow the link in her name), and some equally beautiful books of poetry, including a Penchant for Masquerades, which has only just come out. Continue reading Inspiration with Carolyn Martin, April 2019 →