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The Wild Burro Writers Group

Are you trying to get yourself motivated to get some writing done? Join the Wild Burro Writers Group! This group includes poets, biographers, memoir writers, essay and fiction writers...as well as your very own newsletter writer - me! The group is organized simply.  Read something for 5 minutes.  The group will critique.  Listen and critique the work of everyone else.  If there's time...we do a quick 5 minute spur of the moment writing exercise.  (These, for obvious reasons, are not critiqued.)  

The group meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month at 5:00 pm at the store, 503 North River Street in Hot Springs.

Want to come but don't want to come empty handed?  Here are some writing ideas from Natalie Goldberg who wrote Writing Down the Bones; Freeing the Writer Within:

1. What is the best meal you've ever had?  Have you ever been on a quest to find the best of your favorite mean.  The best lluevos rancheros I've ever had were in Taos, New Mexico.  I've been searching for a comparable dish ever since!

2.  Have you ever owned a pet?  If so, what was its "personality?"

3.  Give my your morning.  Waking up, breakfast the paper, the dogs, the morning rituals...be as specific as possible.

4.  Write about leaving.  Approach it any way you want - write about leaving the house this morning, your divorce, leaving home for college...whatever strikes you.