Writing Adventurers offers multiple ways for writers to reach their personal and professional goals. We have Live Meetings & will soon reinstate in-person meetings.
Join the Facebook Page to get inspired and connect with other writers.
Current Group Offerings:
Writing Support Meetings – are designed to address more writer-specific issues, support each other, highlight writer self-care, and create a spiritual space for writing not specific to any organized religion.
Meet and Write – To create an engaging community of writers. We will explore the Middle Tennessee community, highlighting an attraction as inspiration, write about our experiences, and share. This is a way for people to connect without feeling intimidated.
Past Group Offerings:
Writing Goals Meetings – To encourage each writer to reach his/her/their goals. The members listen, support, and offer insight to help each other. Each member presents their broad goal and their envisioned steps to reach it. They also provide what they have been doing to reach the goal, regardless of progress.
Writers Reviewing Writers – a podcast examining one writer and two works. We study how has the writer progressed in their writing, what has changed overall in their approach to their style, and whether we prefer the earlier vs. later writing.
Writing Book Club – The best way to learn is to study, discuss, and practice. Join us as we travel through literature and film to improve the writing craft.
Author Biographies
- Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle – November 8, 2020
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – November 3, 2019
- Can You Ever Forgive Me by Lee Israel – July 7, 2019
- The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography by Margaret Lane – April 8, 2018
- Persepolis by Marijane Satrapi – December 3, 2017
- Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford – August 6, 2017
- Shakespeare, The Biography by Peter Ackroyd – April 2, 2017
Writing Process & Advice
- Atomic Habits by James Clear – January 3, 2021
- Writing Life by Annie Dillard – May 5, 2019
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg – November 4, 2018
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott – September 9, 2018
- On Writing by Eudora Welty – October 1, 2017
- On Writing by Stephen King – June 4, 2017
Learn From a Prize Winner
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – July 3, 2021
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead – April 4, 2021
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer – February 2, 2020
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen – Part 1 – January 6, 2019, Part 2 – February 3, 2019
- Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Special Fiction Edition Entry) – July 1, 2018
Short Story Discussions
- The Veldt by Ray Bradbury – September 11, 2021
- The Outing by James Baldwin – July 13, 2021
- Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin – July 6, 2021
- The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant – May 22, 2021
- Poetry by Pablo Neruda – April 17, 2021 – part 2
- Poetry by Pablo Neruda – April 10, 2021 – part 1
- Sticks by George Saunders – March 27, 2021
- The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson – February 27, 2021
- Cathedral by Raymond Carver – January 30, 2021
- The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick – December 13, 2020
- Passion by Alice Munro – July 31, 2020
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright – July 17, 2020
- Charles by Shirley Jackson – July 10, 2020
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor – May 22, 2020
- In a Pandemic, How Do You Make the Case for an Art Emergency? By Corinne Segal (essay) – May 1, 2020
- Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian – April 24, 2020
- How to Become a Writer by Lorrie Moore – April 17, 2020
- Lamb to Slaughter by Roald Dahl – April 10, 2020
Film Discussions – We follow the Save the Cat Beat Sheet Formula
- Boyhood – September 19, 2021
- Three Identical Strangers (Documentary) – July 27, 2021
- My Octopus Teacher (Documentary) – July 20, 2021
- Dolemite is My Name – May 16, 2021
- The Booksellers (Documentary) – April 18, 2021
- Il Postino – March 28, 2021
- The Big Sleep – February 21, 2021
- Kubo & the Two Strings – January 17, 2021
- Stranger Than Fiction – November 29, 2020
- Singing in the Rain – July 30, 2020
- Adaptation – July 23, 2020
- Who Is Afraid of Virigina Wolf – July 16, 2020
- Trumbo – July 2, 2020
- Shirley – June 18, 2020