April 17 Meeting Minutes

 Writers Guild 4/17/24 Meeting Minutes

There were 8 members in attendance: Jeremiah, Ryan, Kim, Roman, June, Edward, Amare and Cindy

We rescheduled our May 1 meeting for next week, April 24 at 4 pm. Our original date was on May 1 which is the day and time we do the Byways Reception.

You are all invited to attend the Byways Reception on May 1 at 3:30 pm. Come join your fellow Guild members in celebrating their work. We are proud of their accomplishments!

In this meeting, we took about 20 minutes to work on our ongoing writing projects. Then we shared the work and gave support and feedback.

Future activities were shared which included:

• looking a a movie poster and writing about what we think the movie will be about
• playing improv games and engaging in voice acting

We also started getting volunteers for EGX which is a comicon-like event at CTC on June 1.

• I’m trying to find out the time, but we will be either inside or on the porch, so we don’t have to worry about a tent.
• I know it’s I think just in the afternoon into early evening, but I’ll make sure for everyone.
• You will not have to work the entire time and we can rotate. Also, you can dress up.
• Please answer the following questions: I can work EGX on June 1^st           yes or no
• What time?
• So far I have Jeremiah signed up.

Keep working on your writing and other creative endeavors.

Later gators,

Meeting Minutes April 3, 2024

 Writers Guild meeting minutes April 3, 2024

We had 5 members in attendance, but Maki had to leave at the beginning. Also.Gina, Maki, Edward, June, and Cindy

For our in-guild activity, we wrote stories using Apples to Apples cards.

For our Out of Guild activity:

Write about a change of heart:. Example good to evil, evil to good, friend to enemies, enemies to friends.

Don’t forget last week’s assignment- write about a time you were backstabbed. Did it end well or bad?

Don't forget to use Eclipse glasses on Monday. Those working Eclipse Day will have glasses at our booth. 

Later gators, 

Meeting Minutes March 27, 2024

 03/27/24 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes

Again…………. we need to vote in a Secretary. 😊 Just saying

There were 11 members in attendance: Maki, Ryan, Roman, June, Tajane, Gina, Thomas, Edward, Jeremiah, Amare and Cindy

We read Angelina’s agenda and assigned the Out of Guild activity: Write or draw about a time when a backstabbing (literal or metaphorical) goes wrong. This should be interesting to see what everyone writes. Just a thought – does it ever go right? 😊 Just saying. We shall see what everyone comes up with.

Our In Guild Activity was to imagine an alien species crash lands on Earth. We each had to come up with the species that landed, where they landed, whether they were good guys or bad guys, what allegiances did they have and did it have a good or terrible ending.

Then we each took over our parts of the story, intertwining our plots with each other. I will try and upload the recording we made in Discord to show where this story went. It was fun and a great story! 

It's uploaded in Discord

Our next meeting is next Weds, April 3 at 4 pm.  

Also, I want to remind you guys that 3 of our Writers Guild members are in the CTC play, so let’s support them and go out on April 18, 19, or 20^th at 7 pm or April 20^th at 2 pm to cheer them on!

Have a great week!

Meeting Minutes March 7, 2024

 From the desk of Cindy (any thoughts of who wants to be Secretary? Anybody? Hint. Hint.)

March 6 meeting minutes

There were 10 members present at the meeting:

Gina, William, Edward, June, Jeremiah, Stephen, Amare, Tai, Cindy and Thomas

We briefly discussed working the Eclipse Day.

Our volunteers: Angelina, Amare, June, Jeremiah, Savannah and Tajane. Savannah and Tajane, email me because we have to talk about arrival time and departure time. 

We have Angelina and Amare coming in the early hours (7 or 8am)

Jeremiah, June and Tajane coming later - around 10am (you will have a ton of traffic and may need to be dropped off at the hospital and walk, think about coming earlier)

Savannah coming at the end with Amare staying to help pick up. Savannah you will encounter traffic. Text me before coming in case we are picking up the booth.

We will share phone numbers before that day to find each other ok? 

Then we worked on Byways entries. Due date March 15! We laughed and created. 😊

Next meeting March 20.

Be safe during Spring Break!

Meeting Minutes 2/21/2024

 Writers Guild meeting minutes 2/21/2024

From the Desk of Cindy (guys, we need to vote in a new Secretary…just saying….and a Treasurer)

13 Members in attendance:

Jeremiah, William, Ryan, Amare, Josue, Tajané, June, Tai, Savannah, Kim, Edward, Don, Cindy

It was a working meeting. We made posters with misspelled words, stuffed stress balls, attempted to make comets, and discussed who was working at the Eclipse event.

Eclipse Day, Monday, April 8 – school is closed that day

• We have the following people scheduled to work at the Eclipse event: Angelina, Amare, Savannah, Tajané, and Jeremiah (I think you said you could do it...let me know). Did I miss anyone?
• We could use one or two more. Whoever works it, needs to be committed to showing how great the group is and can stay for a few hours.
• Please let me know ASAP who will work it. We have to cover the booth from 7/8 am until at least 4 pm.
• I could use help with setting up, so if you can be there by 7 am, please let me know.

We also posted photographs and members wrote stories, thoughts, and poems about them.

We also shared our character analysis and talked about what type of writing we liked to do.

Cindy bugged everyone again about entering Byways. Link for Byways https://www.ctcd.edu/academics/library/byways/. Deadline March 15. We will not accept even one day late as we have less judging time.

Welcome our new members Jeremiah, Don, and Ryan! We’re glad you’re here!

Please let me know if you can’t get into Discord.

Here’s our blog link https://ctcwritersguild.blogspot.com/. If you want access to our blog you must send Cindy a gmail email. It doesn’t take eaglemail. I will send invitations to those members who gave me their personal email. 

Later gators, 

Cindy Oser

Outreach and Reference Librarian

Oveta Culp Hobby Memorial Library

Central Texas College

6200 West Central Texas Expressway

Killeen, TX  76549

254-526-1475

cynthia.oser@ctcd.edu

Agenda for Feb 21 Writers Guild Meeting

 Greetings Persons of Creativity, 

From the desk of Cindy...

You guys are all very talented writers and artists. We don't have many Byways entries for poetry, short stories, and music lyrics. We have none for metalwork, music score, sculpture and short plays. Drawing, digital art, painting, and poetry need more. So make sure you don't miss the Byways deadline of March 15. We only have 2 meetings before the deadline, so make sure you share your work, register your work, send your work, and be a part of CTC history! 

One more thing...…..remember that questionnaire I sent in the last meeting minutes? Yep. I need you to answer the questions. I'll post it at the end. 

One more, more thing...….we have new members (Tayshayla, Savannah, Tajane, Eugenia, and Jeremiah, so make sure to give them a welcome in Discord and at the meetings) 

Ok. And now From the Desk of Angelina...

 

Agenda for the 21st of February,

Hello, 

I hope everyone is faring well, and had a wonderful week!

I am going to keep this agenda short this time so without further adieu, here is the plan for our next meeting:

1. Meet and greet

2. Open the floor for new info from our sponsor, aka Cindy

3.Workshop, (aka, labor for our sales at the eclipse) 

4.(To be done at the same time as three) Share our works and just open the floor to discussions!

I know it's not much for activities, so if anyone has any ideas, please bring them with you to our next meeting, we are mainly going to use our time to prepare for the eclipse by tracing/cutting the necessary fabric!

As always, I can’t wait to see everyone there!

Sincerely, 

Angelina Ortiz

Writer Guild President.

Please copy this section below and email me back with your answer ASAP:

Your name ____________________________

Eclipse Day Sign-up

Can you work the Eclipse Day (Monday, April 8)   Yes ____________No  ____________

What time will you work? (Choose anytime between 7 am and 5 pm) ___________________________

There will be only 1 spot to park for the Writers Guild, so you will need to carpool or be dropped off.

                Will you need to join a carpool? Yes __________No __________

                Will you be dropped off?              Yes __________No_________

Are you able to help machine sew hacky sacks? Yes _________________No ______________

 

Student Government Event Sign-Up

Can you work on Saturday, April 20 from 1-3 pm?  Yes_______________No________________

 

Do you want to be removed from the Writers Guild mailing list?    Yes_______________No_____________

 

January 24 Meeting Minutes

 Greetings Earthlings, 

1/24/2024 Meeting Minutes

We had 8 people in the meeting:

Maki, Kim, Angelina, June, Tajané, Tai, Edward,  and Cindy 

1. We discussed tee shirt requirements
2. Started with a meet and greet
3. Did a “This is Me” activity
4. Discussed budget and voted to buy notebooks, pens, and pencils for the group so everyone can keep their work together. Please let Cindy know if you want a left-handed notebook.
5. Wrote a silly poem
6. Out-of-guild activity: Start a personal story and be very descriptive. Try to write at least the introduction and bring it to the next meeting

We have new members! Welcome Shay, Tajané, and Savannah!

Remember these guild guidelines:

• Announcements in Discord are only made by Edward. You can share your work, but only Edward’s posts have been approved for announcements. Texts are not approved, so check with the Discord announcements when looking for Guild answers.

Other stuff:

• If anyone has ideas or activities, please contact Angelina well before the next meeting, so she can add them to the agenda. You can send it to Angelina or me (coser2@ctcd.edu) and I’ll get it to her.
• In the next few meetings, we should consider nominating a Secretary and a Treasurer. The Secretary takes down what happened in the meeting and writes the meeting minutes. Then they send it to me for approval, I email it out and put it on the blog and Edward posts it. The treasurer keeps track of our budget. Just consider it and after a few meetings, we will vote. You have to be a student to hold an office.

Next Meeting Feb 7

I attached the flyer 

Thanks and have a great rest of your day,