Word Pirates

Bonus: If you’re all up in social networking, there’s a network for book lovers called Goodreads.

Word Pirates: Our next meeting on Sept. 20 is part two of the essay critique. Since Joy will be on the open road traveling, the meeting will be at Laura’s house. The deadline for e-mailing your essay to the group is Sept. 16.

In our meeting last night, we talked about what we’re looking for in this second editing phase. Ideally, we will all submit these to a contest. Each of us is looking for something a little different, and we should all mention that in our e-mail to the group. However, generally speaking, it will be deeper and more focused on “Does this really work? Is this going to get the attention of a judge? What would it take to make this jump to the top of the pile?”

Do you know of a good essay to inspire us in this final phase of editing? Send it along!

We also played Jabberjot, a game in which you come up with brief stories based on visual prompts. We have to remember next time we play this to change the rules to make it less complicated! Fun game, though.