Meeting Minutes by Claire Murray: The Deadwood Writers’ Group met tonight, June 5, at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Livonia. It was a good meeting! Feedback Sessions We had two pieces of writing to review. One was by Tim Franklyn and the other by Claire Murray. The feedback for Tim Franklyn’s piece focused on …
Category: Writers
May 29
Meeting May 21: Unpacking Meaning
Feedback Sessions We had five submissions to review. We discussed three of the submissions and will dialogue about the other two at the next meeting. The first two talked about were both by Richard — Coward and Bonamoki. Coward was a short piece packed with drama and tragedy as it told the story about the …
May 11
Meeting May 7: Show Don’t Tell and Book Launch
Member Updates: The Book Witch: An Urban Fantasy Coming-of-Age Novel, written by K.L. Baxton from our group, is published and available on Amazon. Over part of 2024 and 2025, the group read and discussed the chapters as they were shared. The compelling storytelling led to praise and spirited conversations about author craft ideas. Finally, the …
Dec 05
First Impressions of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
(Spoiler Alert) Anyone who knows me or has been following my blogs knows that I don’t favor the live-action Resident Evil movies starring Milla Jovovich. What I despise most about this six-film series is the shoddy storytelling, blatantly bad continuity, and the fact that all the established characters from the games play second-fiddle to an …
Jun 05
First Impressions of Resident Evil Village
On the day that Resident Evil Village released, I began downloading it shortly after midnight and left my PC on to let it work. By the morning, very little progress had been made, and the estimate for the full download would be twenty-four hours. Since I didn’t want to wait that long, I shut down …