Creative Writing Club Announcements and Activities

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Explore the latest updates from the Creative Writing Club, including group novel meetings, cafe sessions, submission deadlines for Kalliope magazine, T-shirt quote options, office hours schedule, world-building exercises, and ways to connect with the club via Discord and Instagram.

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Welcome to Creative Writing Club!

Announcements Group novel meeting after this meeting (8:30 - 9:30) Cafe Sessions this Thursday (7:30 - 9:30) Kalliope Submissions Due January 24th Fiction- 5,000 word maximum, no more than 3 pieces submitted, must be in a .docx format Nonfiction- same requirements as the fiction submissions Poetry- can submit as many as 5 poems, must fit within a 6 x 9 frame, submissions must be in a .docx Art and photography- 300 DPI https://kalliope.psu.edu/submissions/

T-Shirt Quote Use the QR Code provided at the end of the meeting to vote for what quote you d like on the back of the T-Shirt: Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. -Mark Twain "A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave." -Oscar Wilde "It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book." -Douglas Adams "You can't edit a blank page." -Jodie Picoult "If you wish to be a writer, write." -Epictetus "Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers." -Isaac Asimov "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." -Stephen King We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups. -Margaret Atwood

New Office Hours Monday: 2-4; Josh (Short Stories) Tuesday: 3:30-5:30; Ronan (Poetry) 6-8; Kirsten (General Fiction) Wednesday: 2-4; Lance (Long Fiction) Thursday: 3-5; Victoria (Flash Fiction) Friday: 11:30-1:30; Jarod (Group Novel and Fiction) 3-5; Ayden (Short Stories and Fiction)

World Building Exercise! In groups of two, use one world/setting! one word from each each column to design your Adjectives: Adjectives: Bright Dark Advanced Primitive Sprawling Dense Loud Silent Cold Hot Nouns: Nouns: Beach Mountains Islands Volcanos Urban Rural Suburban Desert Ice Verbs: Verbs: Warring Thinking Dancing Sleeping Creating Growing Shrinking Dying Thriving