Proposed AAGA Creative Activities For The Future

This is a list of proposed future activities for AAGA, intended both to attract new members and to improve members' writing skills and self-editing capabilities. If you have any questions or comments, please contact one of your board members

Writing Contests:

• Listing of contests to sponsor/times held


• Submittal formats


• Screening Committees


• Judging


• Awards and Presentations

Writing Workshops:

• Categories and Combinations (Poetry, Fiction, N/F separate or together?)


• General Creative Writing Workshop
  
  
  
  • Grammar
  
  
  • Sentence/paragraph structure
  
  
  • Other creative writing aspects
  
  
  • Essay, Poem, Story, Novel structure and components
  
  
  • How-To-Critique Workshop
    
    
    
    • How noted writers write
    
    
    • Peer Critiques
      
      
      
      • How to comment in groups
      
      
      • Successes
      
      
      • Aspects to improve
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Critique Groups:

• Putting critique skills into use


• Group dynamics
  
  
  
  • Size of critique groups
  
  
  • Preparation for critique meetings
  
  
  • Effective locales for AAGA members
  
  
  
  

Book Reviews:

• What reviews are for


• How to accomplish a review
  
  
  
  • Theory
  
  
  • Components
  
  
  
  

Others –Publishing in books and Magazines/Agents/Editors/Marketing/Editorial Services