Savannah Writers Group

 Get ready! It's almost time for our second meeting of the month of April. It happens Tuesday, April 24 th , at 7:00 PM at Barnes and Noble. ~ In the meantime, if you are looking for something informative to read that touches on the subjects of getting published and keeping dogs as pets, why not visit the Guide to Literary Agents Blog where there's an interview of Josh Dean, author of Show Dog . Dean describes "How I Got Published" .

In our last SWG meeting, which met on Tuesday, April 10th, we were given a homework assignment. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with or locate handy examples of Critique Cheat Sheets and email your favorites to Sally Klein at:  customer (at) coastalnow (dot) net What is a Critique Cheat Sheet? Just like it sounds, we would be able to print off a few of these and bring them to meetings. When a writer shares his or her work, we'll then have a list of criteria with which to evaluate the piece. Some items we may want to include on such a tool might be: Opening Plot Setting Characterization Dialogue Point of View Show versus tell Imagery Grammar and spelling Style We might also want our writers to know whether or not their piece is "our cup of tea" when it comes to genre and whether we'd keep reading. If you don't write poetry or science fiction, you may have limited knowledge and interest in such pieces. That would be good

Stanley Harris Jr., a member of the SWG, is celebrating the publication of his new book, The Practice: What They Don't Teach in Law School (The Journey of a Southern Lawyer). It's described as a chronicle of all the twists, turns, and adventures of a Southern attorney and is much like a tour of the river that winds through the setting of this story, the quintessential southern city of Savannah. The book spans five decades of the city's history as told from the point of view of its protagonist, Gordon Graham, an attorney who helps in his distinctive way to shape it. The book takes readers along as Gordon grows up, navigates the waters of his law education, makes life-directing choices about his career path, and embarks on a series of legal adventures that can, literally, fill a book. Through imagination and humor, Gordon finds that often responsibilities and accomplishments do not only result from preparation and structure but by may be generated by an inner compass, whi