Hi Everyone! The QPK society just had their one year anniversary meeting. It's hard to believe it's been a whole year since the idea for our writing club was born. 
     All four of us have been working on our novels and short stories and were excited to begin discussing and critiquing them. We each had a turn to conduct an activity. This is a custom we have had since the first meeting, which allows each of us to share our ideas. When one person is leading an activity, they sit at the front and have the floor, with no interruptions from other group members. 
    We started off with M doing opening announcements, something we do at every meeting. Next, R carried out her usual job of doing words of the day. This meeting's words were:
1. Lewd - indecent, obscene, lascivious.
2. Jabber - chatter volubly and incoherently.
3. Solemnity - the state of being solemn.
Next, K did a short character sketch involving asking your favorite character, in your current work in progress, random questions such as what did you eat for breakfast, and what type of shoes do you wear, to gain more insight into the character. R ran a discussion of what our writing goals are for the coming year, and what we completed in the past year. After this, S's activity was to write a short story from the prompt "the librarian was dead". We then discussed differences in our styles of writing. At the end, M lead a discussion about problems we were having with our writing, and we discussed solutions to these problems.
We hope you try out a couple of these activities for yourself and have fun!