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!!Save the Date!! Mark Your New Calendar Now
Texas Mountain Trail Writers Spring Retreat
April 8, 9, 10, 2011
The Texas Mountain Trail Writers invite you to celebrate their 20th annual retreat in the mountains at the Paisano Encampment (7 miles west of Alpine)
Professional Speakers, Fabulous Food, [...]
Meeting Announcement: Our December CHRISTMAS PARTY POTLUCK will be held on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, at the home of Reba and David Seals in Alpine at 6:30 pm.
Celebrate Christmas with the Trail Writers
The Texas Mountain Trail Writers of Alpine, Fort Davis, and the Big Bend area invite members and guests to a Christmas party in the home of Reba and David Seals in Sunny Glen on Dec. 14, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. Guests are asked to bring a covered dish and to call Reba at 837-2919 naming their choice.
For the traditional Chinese Gift Exchange, each person is requested to bring a wrapped gift under $10.
Another tradition is a Christmas writing assignment of not more than 500 words which you may read aloud at the party.
Continue reading December Newsletter | “Log of the Trail” →
Meeting Announcement: Our November meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, in the Fiesta Room of the Hallmark Apartments in Alpine.
Writing Assignment: TO BE WRITTEN AT THE MEETING: Using the dictionary, randomly open it and on the right-side page, the 4th word down (whatever the word is), you must use it in a story. 250 words or less.
Speaker: TBD
Refreshments: Jackie Siglin will provide refreshments for the November meeting.
Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent
This blog was recommended by Reba Cross Seals and thought we might enjoy reading it. http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2010/10/writing-rules-are-just-tools.html
Writers’ Festival at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Dear Writers:
I am the director the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor’s Writers’ Festival. I’ve attached our poster and call for papers. Feel free to pass these on to any interested writers. We are in the midst of preparing a new website, complete with registration form, schedule, and video. It should go live soon! Follow us on Facebook until our website premiers.
Continue reading November Newsletter | “Log of the Trail” →
Meeting Announcement: Our October meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, at the Fort Davis Public Library in Fort Davis, TX, from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. If you wish to carpool from Alpine, meet us in the Big Bend Telephone parking lot before we depart at 6:30 pm.
Speaker: Darrell White – About his newly completed book!
Writing Assignment: A Ghost Story – Something spooky – anywhere from funny spooky to horror spooky. 500 words or less.
Refreshments: Eleanor Taylor, with coffee fixin’s by Phyllis Musgrove
To my friends who enjoy playing with words. ~ Reba
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.” – Groucho Marx
“Take my wife, please.” – Henny Youngman
“If all the girls at Vassar were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be surprised.” – Dorothy Parker
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”- Winston Churchill
“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat” – Will Rogers
Continue reading October Newsletter | “Log of the Trail” →
Meeting Announcement: Our September meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 2010, in the Fiesta Room of the Hallmark Apartments in Alpine.
Homework Assignment: Something new that you’ve been working on, 500 words, perhaps for the Chaos.
Speaker: Elaine Davenport will report on the workshop she attended this summer.
From the Atelier of Phyllis, Our Prez:
September derives from the Latin word Septem which means seven. It was the Roman calendar’s seventh month. Summer is waving goodbye to us as days become shorter and nights longer. Autumn peeks over the horizon beckoning Trail Writers to a new beginning of meetings, writing assignments, submitting articles to the Chaos and planning spring retreat. Come to the Sept. 21 meeting if you can.
I grew up on a farm in West Virginia where The Old Farmer’s Almanac hung on a nail in the kitchen. Dog-eared old copies retired to a bookshelf in December, and a crisp new edition took up residence on the wall. Every family in the community consulted the almanac and compared notes about weather predictions, phases of the moon (must have bright moonlight for coon hunting), signs of the Zodiac, when to plant specific crops, and, for some folks, position of constellations, and which planet was the morning or evening star. My maternal grandmother, most of her children and many neighbors were avid starwatchers.
Continue reading September Newsletter | “Log of the Trail” →
Meeting Announcement: Our September meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 2010, in the Fiesta Room of the Hallmark Apartments in Alpine.
From the Atelier of Our NEW Prez:
Good day to you on a beautiful summer morning with cedar trees outside my back door swaying in a gentle breeze and birds tweeting to one another, sans e-mail. Every morning is Thanksgiving Day to me because I am alive, able to care for myself, and returned home to Alpine after several months recuperating from a car wreck on New Year’s Day, not a good way to begin a year. My little terrier is at my feet, she who jumped out of the wrecked car and was nine miles toward home when a good Samaritan picked her up and searched for her owner.
Continue reading Summer Newsletter | “Log of the Trail” →
Meeting Announcement: Our April meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, in the Fiesta Room at the Hallmark Apartments in Alpine from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
Speaker will be Darrell on the new novel “Imp Of Woe”.
The assignment for April is Poetry! Old ones or New ones, as long as we haven’t heard them. Up to 3 short ones or one very long one.
From the Atelier of our President:
Yeah, team! Another successful retreat completed. Thank you, Reba and Jackie, for co-chairing this event and thank you to your team of workers who helped bring it all together! I heard many good comments from our guests. And, I thought our presenters were especially good. And, they participated in almost all of our activities which was nice.
We’ll sum up and discuss the retreat during our next meeting which will be Tuesday, April 20.
Let’s keep the May 15 Trip to Lubbock date on our calendars. That’s the target date for the writer’s night with the Lubbock Writer’s group. And, our meeting in May will be our last meeting until September. Be thinking about the location for that party/meeting. I would love to offer my place, however, my little place is so small when you cuss the cat you get fur in your mouth.
Continue reading April Newsletter |”Log of the Trail” →
WRITERS, Welcome to the
Last Chance Corral
Writers’ Round-Up
“I Owe it to Myself!”
It’s been a long winter.
The refund check hasn’t come.
I’m sick of cold weather.
Continue reading Last Chance Corral →
19th Annual Spring Retreat in Alpine,
April 9, 10, 11, 2010
Your homework title is:
A Day in the Life of a………
(Rancher, Rancher’s Wife, Ranch Dog, Cowboy, Cowboy’s Horse, Chuck Wagon Cookie, Soldier, One-room School House Teacher, or a true western historical character)
You may choose one or more of the above and must include one or more true historical facts.
Continue reading Homework Assignment for Writing Round-Up →
While exploring mountainous beauty of nature at the
Writing Round-Up
Texas Mountain Trail Writers
Spring Retreat
April 9, 10, 11, 2010
As an added treat for our guests
Reba Cross Seals and Donna Greene
offer an optional easy hike to a lovely location
where they will facilitate the writing of
ancient traditional three line Japanese poetry called
Haiku.
Continue reading Explore the beauty of HAIKU POETRY →
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2012 Annual Writers Spring Retreat April 27, 28, 29, 2012
Mountain Trail Lodge & Outdoor Learning Center, Fort Davis, Texas
NEW! Check out our Retreat Speakers!
Keep your eyes peeled here for more information and details!
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