Our goal is to be a safe space and catalyst for the writer within all of us, sharing our interests and experiences. We are using the National Writing Project foundation for our meetings, where we focus a portion of each meeting on a genre or skill of interest to the group, writing time, and reading time controlled entirely by the writer. This means that we choose what of our writing we wish to read and prior to each reading the writer lets the group know what kind of response they are interested in receiving. This may range from pure adoration/appreciation, to full workshop mode with more specifics such as difficulty with a character reaction or transitions somewhere in the middle.
Currently we have members who write memoir, romantic fantasy, travel, non-fiction and character driven fantasy. We are open to poetry, but don’t really have any self proclaimed poets in the group at this time.
On the first and third Monday of each month we turn the LRJF Writing Center into our Writing Den and all are welcome to join us.
Interested in joining this writing group? Find out how here!
Meet Your Facilitator
Jodie Scales is an educator, a writer, a reader, and a travel enthusiast. She believes in the power of communication and the importance of story in the lives of everyone. She attended the life changing Indiana Writing Project Summer Institute at Ball State University in 2009, becoming a National Writing Project Teacher Consultant. She is so excited to begin this journey with like minded enthusiasts who want to make time for their own writing.
Prior to becoming an English Language Arts teacher, Jodie served in the United States Navy, where she met her husband, now retired senior chief Steven Scales. All of her children have also served in the Navy.
