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March Theme:
Is there a PW discipline that changed the way you think about your own discipline?
Linda Hortick — After giving this much thought, I remember when I had no discipline about writing. I wrote when I felt like it. Now, Greenwich Pen Women has monthly meetings, and I have deadlines. The real thing. I need to produce or be left out of the critique when it comes to my turn.
When I write, I write hoping that the members will find it interesting and engaging. I am always fearful of the comments and critique at our meetings, but I find them very helpful, and I still enjoy the process.
If we don’t have deadlines in our life, it seems that things seem to drift like a boat without oars. We bob around and think okay, tomorrow, and tomorrow. Yes, deadlines have helped me be more focused.
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Leigh Grant — I think the Pen Women discipline that encouraged refinement of my writing has been the monthly critiques. These critiques provide a timeline for getting something done, an audience for my prose, and an opportunity for thoughtful feedback.
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Doris Mady – I love to paint with classical music setting the pace for my brush strokes. I had always wished I could play a musical instrument. But being tone-deaf playing any instrument is totally out of the question for me. Thus, whenever I can attend a GPW pop-up music event I try to attend! These events have always been s-o-o-o-o-o restorative for me and the settings beautiful.
April Theme:
What should one do to get the most out of a workshop?
Small successes can lead to big results. Focus on incremental ways to activate your creativity.
HEADS UP! BE READY! Doris Mady will be leading a book discussion in June at the Perrot Library in June.
Forty years ago I watched the mini-series, Lonesome Dove, on TV and fell in love with the finely-crafted men and women who lived in the West in the 1870’s. I wanted to know more them and that era. Thus, I had promised myself that someday I would read my 858-page book. I just finished it and I loved it, all over again!
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (by bookseller James Mustich) lists Larry McMurtry’s western saga Lonesome Dove as one of the West’s “richest literary harvest”. GoodReads said: “A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier… is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America”.
McMurtry, himself, was a prominent book collector and bookseller. Among his works were The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment.
His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove tells the story of a cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana led by two former Texas Rangers who have been friends for three decades. But make no mistake: while the women may seem like a sub-plot in this masterpiece, they complete the mural that is set before us.
The book was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations. The series starred Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, and Angelica Houston.
Even today, this book does not disappointment. Sadly the book ended but as Mustich stated Lonesome Dove has “a knowledge that gives the page-turning pleasure of his book, a profound, expressive afterglow.”
Order it now…so, too, you can join the discussion in June at Perrot Library, Old Greenwich.
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