October Online Meeting – Writing the Horror or Suspense Genre

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  The Online EWC Meeting for October

Program—Online Course – Writing the Horror or Suspense
genre          (okay, the puppy doesn’t look suspenseful or horrific, but isn’t he cute?  And it’s fall)

The readable version:

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How to Write a Horror Story: 7 Tips for Writing Horror


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And try these YouTube videos.

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Write a 150 word piece in the horror or suspense genre for our roll call writing

First Ever Online EWC Meeting

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             The “First Ever Online EWC Meeting”

Since we cannot meet in person this year, we are trying our program and roll call pieces a little differently. The programs will be through a link you can view on your computer.  We will be emailing our roll call writings to each other.  Let me know if you would still like to have a contest and we’ll also do that by email. We have a new prize in mind.

Program—Online Course – Writing Humor

The readable version:
https://hobbylark.com/writing/How-to-Write-Humor-Whats-So
-Funny

And try this Youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNTxSBgDNp4

Roll Call — How did you spend the pandemic—Humorous or
otherwise

Once you have written your roll call piece, send it to everyone
in the club by email (if you have that capability). You can
“reply all” to the email that sent the newsletter and attach your
piece so all can see. The “reply all” command allows you to
use the email addresses of the entire club so you don’t have to
look them up.

2020 Writing Contest Winners for Enid Writers Club

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  2020 EWC Contest Results
Category 1 (Short Story) 1 st Place – Peggy Chambers for Stone of Thor
Category 2 (Juvenile Short Story or Picture Book) 1 st Place – Martha Draper for A Short Story (Picture Book)
Category 3 (Memoir) 1 st Place – Martha Draper for The Blizzard of 1971 (Nostalgia)
Category 4 (Flash Fiction) 1 st Place – Peggy Chambers for The Leaves
 2 nd Place – Cathy Thorp for Help Me
 3 rd Place Tie – James Arnold for The Wichita Way and  Martha Draper for A Flash of Inspiration
 Category 5 (Poetry, rhymed or unrhymed) 1 st Place – James Arnold for Mr. Carter
 2 nd Place – Peggy Chambers for Ode to a Bradford Pear
3 rd Place Tie – Cathy Thorp for They Call Me Crazy  and Martha Draper for Birthday 70h! 
Category 6 (Humor) 1 st Place – James Arnold for How To Turn Concrete Blocks Into Hot Water Tanks
 2 nd Place – Martha Draper for A Bit on Humor
Category 7 (Essay or Article: Inspirational) 1 st Place – James Arnold for Forever Always (Inspirational Article)
 2 nd Place – Martha Draper for Thank You Sandra Boynton! (Inspirational Article)