January 2023: Story Ideas!
Ideas: any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental activity. Join us to discuss this topic and more in January!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Dec 29, 2022
- 2 min
Get involved with the OWC in 2023!
Are you looking to get more involved in a community or make an investment in your writing? The OWC is looking for volunteers!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Nov 3, 2022
- 1 min
November 2022: Backstory!
Backstory: a narrative providing a history or background context. Join us to discuss this topic and more in November!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Oct 5, 2022
- 1 min
October 2022: Dialogue!
Dialogue: the conversational element of literary or dramatic composition. Join us to discuss this topic and more in October!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Sep 1, 2022
- 4 min
Celebrating Nine Years! 🎉
As we enter our tenth year, the leadership team has done some reflection on where we’d like to take the OWC and what our focus should be.
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
August 2022: Exposition
Exposition: The insertion of background information within a story or narrative. Join us to discuss this topic and more in August!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Jul 2, 2022
- 1 min
July 2022: Genre!
Genre: a literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content. Join us to discuss this topic and more in July!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Jun 2, 2022
- 1 min
June 2022: Subplots!
Subplots: a secondary plot that runs parallel to and supports the main plot. We hope you'll join us to discuss this topic and more in June!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
We want to hear from you!
We haven't run a survey in a while and not at all since we've migrated the community online and onto new platforms. So, we're running one!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- May 1, 2022
- 1 min
May 2022: Inciting Incidents!
The Inciting Incident: Your main character's call to adventure. We hope you'll join us to discuss this topic and more in May!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
April 2022: Scenes!
Scenes: one of the subdivisions of a play... We hope you'll join us to discuss these questions and more in April!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Mar 17, 2022
- 4 min
You Didn't Grow Up With Trains
No experience is universal and that’s what makes the world as diverse and exciting as our bookshelves should be.
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
March 2022: Conflict!
Conflict: the competitive or opposing action of incompatibles. We hope you'll join us to discuss this topic and more in March!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min
February 2022: Antagonists!
Antagonist: one that contends with or opposes another: adversary, opponent.
We're so excited to talk about all things anti- with you!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Jan 4, 2022
- 5 min
A Focus on the Future in 2022 and Beyond
As we look into the future in 2022 & beyond, it’s clear we have to adapt to our new reality & those are the plans we want to share with you.
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Nov 16, 2021
- 6 min
Leveraging Stereotypes and Developing Shorthand to Reveal Character Traits and Relationships
How can we use some light pre-planning to ensure a more well-rounded, realistic view of your world and web of relationships? Come see!
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
An Overdue Welcome and Update
It's been six weeks since we officially closed down the Meetup group, and it's all been a bit of a blur over here in OWC HQ.
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Jan 5, 2021
- 2 min
New Year, New OWC
The OWC is officially moving off the Meetup.com platform and permanently and solely onto our website, as of January 20, 2021.
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min
Going on hiatus
The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on many of us. We've been trying our best to keep the Ottawa Writer's Circle active, but it's been hard.
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Averill Elisa Frankes
- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min
Happy New Year, OWC!
Welcome to a new decade (to most people), the Roaring Twenties 2.0 (to just me)! This Is Your Year To (Finally?) Write The Thing!
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