We will gather at the Tyvola Senior Center, 2225 Tyvola Road, Charlotte, NC
Not able to attend in-person? Please join us via Zoom with this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83291815127?pwd=Qi9iVy8wMFB4TjlFYzFEL3FOMWYxZz09
As always, social time will begin at 6:30 p.m. to chat and catch up with fellow writers. Our formal meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. as our president calls us to order with a welcome and brief announcements. Club business and member announcements will follow the presentation by our guest speaker for the evening: Michelle Icard, who "studies middle schoolers like Marie Curie studied radium," and has authored three books on the subject, will talk to us about tackling long-form nonfiction.
Sorting It All Out
Anyone who has ever written a long work of nonfiction (and this might apply to a lot of fiction as well!) knows that by the time you're ready to write you’ve accumulated a million ideas (some research, some metaphors, some strategies, etc.). They swim about in your head, seem to pull you in every direction, stubbornly refuse to settle down and become a coherent whole that will allow your readers to move effortlessly from point A to point B. Michelle Icard knows the problems you face. She's been there, found her way through the thicket, and is willing to share a few of her secrets. Her insights will make your life as a writer just a little bit easier!
Michelle Icard is a speaker, author, and educator who helps kids, parents, and teachers navigate the complicated social world of early adolescence.
Her latest book, Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen, guides readers through the fourteen essential conversations parents need to have with their kids before they start high school. Her first book, Middle School Makeover: Improving the Way You and Your Child Experience the Middle School Years, is a primer for the social and emotional changes parents and kids navigate when mid-life meets middle school under one roof. She is currently writing her third book for Penguin Random House: The Ten Failures That Can Make Your Child A Success.
Michelle is a CNN parenting writer and a member of the TODAY Show parenting team. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, Time, and People Magazine. Her middle school leadership programs, Athena’s Path & Hero’s Pursuit, have been implemented at schools across the country and she speaks around the globe at schools and parenting events.
COVID
Since COVID and its spawn remain part of the plot, we need your help to keep us all safe. To attend in-person, we ask that you provide proof of full COVID vaccination and while in the building to continue to social distance--without a mask, or with a mask--as fits your comfort level now that state and county mandates have been lifted and we lean into this new level of normal.
If you have not already done so, please copy or take a photo of your vaccination card and email it to membershipcwc@yahoo.com. You’ll have to do it only once and you'll be on our VIP List. As you arrive for the meetings, we will check you off the list. We will also accept showing vaccination cards at the door as a last-minute emergency—though not our preference because we don’t want to have to turn anyone away.
If you have questions, concerns, or thoughts please contact membershipcwc@yahoo.com.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
