{"id":462,"date":"2016-10-13T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T08:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=462"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T08:56:56","slug":"alphaday-2-season-xiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/alphaday-2-season-xiii\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphaday 2, Season XIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 2 of our 13<sup>th<\/sup> season. The build-up is going well and by next Alphaday we\u2019ll be in full flow. The Alpha team in charge of our special niches have been busy and I expect you\u2019ll find plenty of writerly inspiration and stimulation in the following Alphaday 2 agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This bulletin from me<\/li>\n<li>The collated entries for the Rain challenge from Olaf<\/li>\n<li>The brief for Challenge 2 from Sue<\/li>\n<li>The Log from Sally<\/li>\n<li>Another Writers\u2019 Reads prompt from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps\u2026 a Showcasing piece from Suzanne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The items on the above agenda are provided by Alphas who\u2019ve volunteered to take charge of a particular area of writerly interest. What happens next is that we all chip in with whatever we\u2019d like to contribute. And that\u2019s the beauty of it. We\u2019re all included and everyone can have their say.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t even know whether Olaf has got a full set of entries, but I hope he has. Just as I hope Sue\u2019s choice of challenge brief will get you all scribbling away eagerly. I look forward to news of how you\u2019re doing with your personal writing projects in Sally\u2019s Log, and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll have plenty to say when Morgen gives you the next prompt. Hopefully you\u2019ve been looking through your bulging files of writing and found something you\u2019d like to share with the group in the showcasing slot. What would a writers\u2019 group be without it?<\/p>\n<p><u>Membership news:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>We have a new member. <strong>Samantha <\/strong>will be joining us today. She\u2019s studying English at a university in Dakota and she\u2019s been trying to find a writers\u2019 group for some time. Then, one day, she found Olaf\u2019s invitation to join Alpha on her university notice board! We welcome her to our group and look forward to her input. I\u2019ve included her in the address list for this bulletin. Please, could you all make sure she\u2019s included in group emails.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Dianne and Pamela are settling in nicely and enjoying the ride so far. We\u2019re still cranking up the machinery, as I said, but we\u2019re getting there and by next Alphaday it\u2019ll all be in place. I think we\u2019re getting rather good at picking up the Alpha routine after the break. We evolve all the time. Things change and if you see the need for something innovative, all you have to do is to tell us about your idea. It might catch on\u2026 and then again, it might not. The main thing is that we\u2019re open-minded.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to look at our web site now and then. ( <a href=\"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/\">https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/<\/a> ) Rosemary is constantly updating it to keep a record of everything. The members\u2019 page is looking good. There are still a few photos and bios missing, but you get the gist of Alpha by looking at it. We\u2019re a motley bunch of writers with a great diversity of ideas and opinions; all of them well worth \u2013 indeed, a privilege \u2013 to communicate with.<\/p>\n<p>We had some lively exchanges about nature writing. Genres and their exact definitions are cans of worms. Take something along the lines of \u2018How to Grow Your Own Venus Flytrap \/ Triffids.\u2019 Or Beningfield\u2019s \u2018Butterflies\u2019 (found it on my shelves; pretty water colours) and Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s \u2018Flight Behaviour\u2019. Nature is everywhere in all its splendid variety. Perhaps there should be a genre called \u2018human writing\u2019 defined as: writing featuring human beings? I don\u2019t doubt that publishers need to compartmentalise the genres they specialise in. That in turn means that writers need to fit into one of those pigeonholes before they can choose the publisher they want to approach. For some that\u2019s the easy part. But not for all.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see what food for thought will come our way this Alphaday. I\u2019m looking forward to all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 2 of our 13th season. The build-up is going well and by next Alphaday we\u2019ll be in full flow. 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