MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Sharon Palmeri, Beverly Stanislawski, Katherine Flotz, Sharon
Buckman, Sharon Dorelli, Bob Philpot, Adam Sedia, Pete Iussig, Donna
Eckelbarger
SPECIAL
EVENT:
Write-on, Hoosiers rang in the new year with plenty of goodies
to eat. Bev rang the New Year bell as well toasted to 2016, hoping for it to be
the best writing year ever.
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the November 19, 2015 meeting was first
given by BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI and
seconded by KATHRINE FLOTZ.
NEW
BUSINESS:
SHARON
PALMERI discussed the possibility of having some educational sessions
at some of the WOH meetings. Several
suggestions were given:
*Mini-workshops
*Handouts, or discussion, on writing information
derived from magazine articles, conferences, online videos etc. Topics may include such things as, plot,
theme, dialogue, creating the story, poetry, children’s writing, publishing, book
layout, legal issues and more.
The people who feel comfortable with giving presentations would conduct the sessions. The members also discussed whether to make the sessions before a regular meeting (such as beginning l/2 hr. before a regular meeting), or to have it every other meeting.
LITERARY
NEWS:
ADAM
SEDIA announced he would soon be releasing two poetry books,
probably in early March.
READINGS:
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read two of her poems. The first poem, “Just
a Paris Friday Night,” was a four stanza Pantoum poem telling of the recent
terrorist attack in Paris and how it destroyed what was to be an enjoyable
Friday night with friends, now changed to a panicked people. The second poem, “Ol’Blue,” was a six stanza poem that had taken Honorable Mention
in a Kentucky Songwriters’ Contest. This
poem tells of trying to train a dog to no avail because he was “dumber than a stump.”
ADAM
SEDIA read his six-stanza free form poem entitled “December 31.” The poem tells a story of the preceding year
with all its “woes and joys” and looking forward because “what lies behind
cannot be otherwise.”
SHARON
BUCKMAN continued with four pages of her sequel, Beyond the Canopy. In this part of the novel, Harold discovers
his dad’s deception, and finds it hard to believe. He has yet to discover how far his father has
gone to help his dead friend.
DONNA
ECKELBARGER read two pages of her children’s story entitled, Two
Brown Worms. The story, written
for ages two to five years, tells of a young girl named Daisy with her little
brown bucket deciding to go hunt for worms.
In her search for worms, she also finds brown ants, a gray potato bug
and two green grasshoppers.
PETE
IUSSIG read his six-stanza poem entitled, “The Chosen Few.” This
poem tells of all the “unsung heroes who protect without glory,” including
firefighters, policemen, teachers, nurses and our military. This poem was also chosen to be read, and
rightfully so, at a few Veterans Day events.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
