Welcome to the CTC Creative Underground!

Welcome! The CTC Writers Guild is now the CTC Creative Underground. We will be meeting at the KNCT building, bldg 216 on the Central Texas College campus. 

If you would like to join email KMusic@ctcd.edu. 

Our meetings will start at 4pm and run till shortly before 5:30pm. 

Meeting minutes for 8/20/2025

 Creative Underground Meeting Minutes 8/20/2025

(formerly Writers Guild)

There were 23 members in attendance: Delta (formerly Devon), Jess, Chloe, Hope (new member, Welcome!) Sheli, Kiera, Caleb, Jonathan, Ryan, Betty, Khallid, Michael (formerly Mikhail), Jessica, Amare, Violet, Max, Micah, Madison, Sania, James, Chelsea, Matt and Cindy

Lots of changes after voting:

Our new name is (the) Creative Underground. I’m not sure if the “the” goes with it or not.

Our new location is the KNCT TV studio aka our new underground cave. We will meet at KNCT next meeting. There’s a backdoor straight from the parking lot. Go to the right when you come through this door.

This upcoming year officers: Congratulations to all of you!

• President – Caleb
• Vice President – Madison
• Treasurer and Protector from Net Impact and the Chess Club– Jacob
• Secretary – Jessica, with Ryan in the role until Jessica gets to the meeting
• Committees:
•                 Recruitment- commits to organizing volunteers for events (anyone can work an event to get a tee shirt) - Caleb, Hope, who else?
•                 Editor – Commits to looking over people’s work in Discord and giving thoughtful, constructive feedback - Sheli, Jacob, Cindy, who else?
•                 Graphics – works on marketing like flyers and such - Hope, Madison, who else?
•                 Jessicas – Jessica, Jess, what other Jessicas? Any other Jessicas want to join?

Our new sponsors: Chelsea Elkins, Matt Negri and James Martin. Welcome to all! (Cindy is retiring from CTC and will now be a member with you guys).

IMPORTANT: We need volunteers to work Welcome Bash, next Thursday, August 31 anytime between   11am and 2pm. It will be in the courtyard in front the library. You will be talking up the Creative Underground to get new members and playing a matching game that Ellie made. Let Cindy know if you can come or just show up.

Next meeting is on September 3 at 4pm at the KNCT building.

See you then!

Meeting Minutes August 6, 2025

                                                    Guild of Creative Expression

(Formally known as the Writers Guild)

Meeting Minutes 8/6/2025

Goc-E Talkie 8/6/2025

There were 14 people in attendance: Christian, Cameron, Isabella, Ryan, Aiden, Betty, Mark, Matt, Caleb, Khallid, Amare, Jessica, Audrina and Cindy.

• Christian, Cameron, Isabella, Aiden, and Audrina are new members. Welcome!
• Khallid joined at the last meeting. Welcome also!  
• Matt Negri is our new co-sponsor. Welcome too! He’s the Station Manager at KNCT-FM here on campus and he’s way cool! (Now you will have 2 of us making you crazy! 😊)

The name of the club was formally changed in a vote. We are now the Guild of Creative Expression.

• We did this because we are creators of all types.
• Our meeting minutes were changed to be called the Goc-E Talkie and our nickname can be the Goc-E’s, if we want to call ourselves that while shouting it across the courtyard. Hey Goc-E!
• We still have Writers Guild on the tee-shirts though until they are all gone.
• Members get a tee shirt after attending 5 meetings and volunteering for one event.

**** We talked about our creative goals and dreams and encouraged each other on pursuing them.

Next meeting:

• Wednesday, August 20 at 4pm in room 211 and online
• We will go over the roles of officers and other positions, as well as our constitution and by-laws to see if we need changes.
• We will be looking for volunteers to work at the Welcome Bash on Aug 28. 
• Please send agenda ideas to Cindy for the next meeting.

Fare thee well!

 

Haunted House info and Open House

 Hi Writers Guild,

We still need a couple of people to stand at a table this Saturday in the Anderson building anytime between 9 and 1pm to tell people about the Writers Guild. Let me know if you can work any of that time. 

• We're on the second floor. 
• Podcasters Sania, Jess, Jessica, and Randy, come into the large room and find me. 
• We talk on the radio at 9:30am. 

Also, there is a lot of work we have to do at the next meeting with drawing, painting and building for the Haunted House. If we start the meeting at 2pm that day, can you guys come in earlier to work on the props, decor, and costumes? Otherwise, we may have to dedicate 2 meetings for completing the work. The meeting is next week and not tomorrow. 

• I'll bring the stuff up at 2pm and if you can come early, please just show up. 
• Since we will be working on stuff here, our online guys, will you draw some scenery stuff to give us ideas? 
• Any online writers, be writing some dates that we can paint on the tombstones. We decided to just put the angels and the dates on with no epitaphs. 

We're mainly building 

• tombstones to stand up, covering them, pasting the angels onto the tombstones and painting dates (I made copies of the angels that we can cut out, paint, then paste on the tombstones).  
• Then we're tracing tombstones on large pieces of paper, painting them and adding some scenery in the background.
• We're also pinning costumes together
• I have the black light to try on the clothes and scenery

Hopefully, I'll see a few of you this Saturday and I'll see the rest of you next Wednesday for a working meeting!

Thanks, 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 7/9/2025

There were 12 members in attendance: Mikhail, Chad, Betty, Randy, Jess, Dale, Jessica, Amare, Sania, Ellie, Madison, and Cindy

What we did:

1. We broke into clans to create a horror, psychological thriller with a comedy twist
2. Everyone, make sure to send me your drawings, music, and videos you took during the meeting or post it in Discord. I will get to downloading everything either today or next week.
3. Dale, I already have yours. Thanks!

Open House – Saturday, July 19 from 8:30 am-1pm. 2nd floor Anderson Building

• We are doing 2 things at Open House: recruiting at the Writers Guild table and talking on the radio.
  •                 Live podcast- We are scheduled to talk on the radio either at 9 or 9:20. 
    • Therefore,  please come to the Anderson no later than 8:30 am so we can make sure everyone is there and ready to go for the airing.
                                     
    • These people signed up to do the podcast:
      
      
    •                                                 Jessica, Jess, Amare, Sania, Randy

Need recruiters –

• So far, we have Amare as a recruiter.
• We need more.
• Let me know if you want to stand at the table and talk about the Writers Guild any time between 8:30 and 1pm.
• You don’t have to work the whole time.
• Ellie made a cool game that you can play with people, so you would be playing the game and talking about what we do. You would also be getting them to write their name and email down for new members. Thanks, Ellie!

Already published? 

• I am contacting our members who have been published to see if they want to be featured by our CTC marketing department. They would love to hear your story and how Writers Guild was part of your journey, whether it be writing, art, digital art, music and more. 

 

We will be creating costumes and scenery at the next Writers Guild meeting. Next meeting is on July 23 at 4pm. 

See you then!

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 6.25.25

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 6/25/2025

There were 14 members in attendance: Betty, Ryan, Mark, Sania, Mikhail, Micah, Jessica Jonathan, Felipe, Jacob, Randy, the other Jessica (Jess), Dale, and Cindy

• We first discussed some of the ways we can create a glowing effect on our walls and tombstones for the Haunted House
•  The Jacob gave a speech on “Show, don’t Tell.” It was great and much appreciated.
•  Then we worked on our own projects.

 

Our next meeting is July 9 at 4pm in the library room 211.

•  If you need to meet online, let Cindy know by the day before the meeting.
• Send Cindy ideas for the next meeting agenda.

Later!

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 06/12/2025

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 06/11/2025

 There were 11 members in attendance: Caleb, Trynity, Jacob, Mark, Ryan, Jessica, Betty Jess, Felipe (welcome back!), Jonathan, and Sania.

·         We all worked on Showing and not Telling which is a concept Jacob introduced. We practiced doing this skill which is vital in writing stories.

  

·         Please bring whatever you are working on to the next meeting as it will be solely a work meeting. We keep saying we don’t have enough time to work on our stuff, so we are only focusing on that.

 Open House

·         *Important* We need volunteers to work Open House on Saturday, July 19 starting at 9am till about 11:30am. If you can work anytime during that slot please let Cindy know.

·         You will be telling people about the Writers Guild

·         Also, that day, Writers Guild members are going to be interviewed on the radio. If you want to speak on the radio, please let me know asap.  

Our next meeting is Weds June 25 at 4pm.

 Create, creative people!