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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211206T173000
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UID:9809-1638811800-1638817200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Script Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini Goals session for Script Writers. Email Billie on billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/script-mini-goals-20/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211204T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211104T103359Z
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UID:9767-1638626400-1638633600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Trauma and the Creative Writing Classroom
DESCRIPTION:A session exploring what trauma is\, its relationship to creativity and strategies to develop a trauma-informed workshop practice. \nNB: This workshop will be from 2-4pm in MMU’s Arts and Humanities Building\, Manchester. \nWhat is trauma? What is PTSD? Why does it matter for workshop/arts facilitators? When difficult memories or subjects arise\, what practical approaches or tips can facilitators employ in the moment\, or bear in mind for the future? \nThis workshop will use relaxed group conversations to explore these questions. You will gain an understanding of some of the definitions of what trauma is\, its signs and symptoms\, practical strategies for building trauma awareness into workshops and some tools for tackling traumatising or challenging subject matter in a workshop setting. Written\, practical and creative exercises will demonstrate some ideas and approaches discussed during the session.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/trauma-and-the-creative-writing-classroom/
LOCATION:Manchester\, Manchester
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211104T103252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T103252Z
UID:9765-1638473400-1638478800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:What We Owe: Bad Art Friend Discussion
DESCRIPTION:It is easy enough to trigger a storm on Twitter\, but some stories create a hurricane. ‘Who Is The Bad Art Friend?’\, a New York Times Article by Robert Kolker\, was one such story and has whipped up a slew of newspaper articles\, Twitter threads\, and memes ever since. \nCentred around the court case of Dawn Dorland vs Sonya Larson\, the story covers ground from kidney donations to Facebook etiquette\, subpoenaed group chats and insular writing community drama. We don’t want to spoil the story for you\, but suffice it say it’s a wild one. \nThis session will comprise of a discussion focused on the relevant writing aspects of the story. Both sides field a series of key disputes\, surrounding the plagiarism of ideas and Facebook posts\, the etiquette of writing communities\, and above all the kindnesses we do (or do not) owe to our fellow writers. Is using someone else’s kidney donation for a story acceptable? What if said story turns them into an ugly caricature? We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/what-we-owe-bad-art-friend-discussion/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211129T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211129T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T113024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T113024Z
UID:9582-1638208800-1638214200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SFF Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini goals session for science fiction and fantasy writers. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/sff-mini-goals-10/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211127T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211127T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T114129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T114129Z
UID:9559-1638010800-1638028800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:The Butterfly in the Corner: Revitalising Old Myths
DESCRIPTION:SQUAD 10\, LEEDS – VENUE TBC \nNow it is a well-known fact that literature is constantly in conversation with other literary text in some shape or form. This workshop will exploit this tradition as the starting point for writing our own poems. We will turn up to the blank notebook page armed with material\, that our imagination can translate\, update\, transform and in some cases give voice to silenced characters or even fill in gaps left out of the original text.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/the-butterfly-in-the-corner-revitalising-old-myths/
LOCATION:Leeds
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211125T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T113844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T113844Z
UID:9557-1637868600-1637874000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:The Texture of Place: Writing Landscapes and Building Settings
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM\, OPEN ALL SQUADS \nHow can we make the places and locations in our writing feel three-dimensional and “real”? How do we avoid falling into clichés when writing about landscape and place? How can we capture a real/imagined place through senses\, description\, speech and muddled language? Can settings ever be as important as characters?
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/the-texture-of-place-writing-landscapes-and-building-settings/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211125T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211125T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211104T103026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T103026Z
UID:9761-1637861400-1637866800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Poets Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini goals for poets. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to receive the link. \n 
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-38/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211122T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211122T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211104T103105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T103105Z
UID:9763-1637602200-1637607600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Script Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini goals for script writers. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to receive the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/script-mini-goals-19/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211120T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211120T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T113741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T113741Z
UID:9555-1637406000-1637424000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:First the words\, then the music: An Introduction to Libretto
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL SQUADS\, YORK – VENUE TBC \nThis session will explore the relationship between text and music\, and the numerous ways the two can interrelate in opera\, art song and other classical forms (eg choral music). \nWe will take a look at the different ways a collaborative relationship between a writer and a composer can work\, and the different permutations that the resulting pairing of text and music can take.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/first-the-words-then-the-music-an-introduction-to-libretto/
LOCATION:York\, York
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211118T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211104T102907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T102907Z
UID:9757-1637256600-1637262000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Prose Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini goals for prose writers. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/prose-mini-goals-33/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211115T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T113220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T113220Z
UID:9588-1636999200-1637004600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Squad 10 Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Squad 10 mini goals session. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/squad-10-mini-goals-9/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211113T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211113T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T113643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T113643Z
UID:9553-1636812000-1636819200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Short Story: First Draft\, First Edit
DESCRIPTION:SQUAD 10 \nIf you are a Squad grad (1-9)\, and would like to be added to the reserve list for this workshop\, please email Billie on billie@writingsquad.com \nAn uncompromising workshop in which Leone will explore how to edit the first draft of a short story and offer some hard golden rules that will last you forever and invite a lifelong relationship with the underlying idea. An hour of listening hard\, an hour of activity.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/short-story-first-draft-first-edit/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211111T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211111T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T113552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T113552Z
UID:9551-1636651800-1636657200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Awesome Poetry: I'm OK\, I'm Pig!
DESCRIPTION:One of the very best ways to become a better writer is to read widely and thoughtfully. Building on Emma and Matt’s great work in establishing the Awesome Play Text / Screenplay Reading Club\, and Francesca’s prose club\, Malika and Stevie are hosting the Awesome Poetry Reading Club to focus on how we can read as writers. \nIf you want to join us\, then here’s what you need to know: \nThis session will focus on Kim Hyesoon’s I’m OK\, I’m Pig! The text can be purchased here. \nKim Hyesoon is one of South Korea’s most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature and Intellect)\, one of two key journals which championed the intellectual and literary movement against the US-backed military dictatorships of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan in the 1970s and 80s.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/awesome-poetry-im-ok-im-pig/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211108T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211108T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211104T102814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T102814Z
UID:9755-1636392600-1636398000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Script Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini goals for script writers. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to receive the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/script-mini-goals-15/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211106T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211106T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T113352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T113352Z
UID:9549-1636196400-1636214400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Squad Assessment Centre: Storylining
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL SQUADS\, YORK – VENUE TBC \nThis workshop will introduce you to the story process within soap. You will gain a unique insight into the way in which continuing drama hires Storyliners. Storyliners are responsible for generating ideas and structuring the story into each episode. We will also talk about what is expected from Storyliners at Story Conference where producers\, writers and commissioners all meet to discuss future blocks of content. This session will focus on Emmerdale\, so please watch two weeks of the show beforehand. The workshop will be modelled on our experience of ITV’s Assessment Centre which is part of the hiring process. During the day\, you will pitch\, develop and structure storylines\, both independently and in groups.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/squad-assessment-centre-storylining/
LOCATION:York\, York
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T113124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T113124Z
UID:9547-1636054200-1636059600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Rituals: How do you take your tea?
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM\, OPEN ALL SQUADS \nIn this workshop we will look at rituals and how they appear in our own lives\, what they reveal about us and how we can use them to strengthen our understanding of our characters. \nWe will also explore how disrupting these rituals can function as a plot device using examples from theatre/film as well as putting one of our characters on a bad date. \nFinally\, we will look at the big rituals\, the religious holidays\, the weddings\, the funerals – what do they offer us? What have we not seen? And what\, importantly is the best party game?
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/rituals-how-do-you-take-your-tea/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211104T102950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T102950Z
UID:9759-1636047000-1636052400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Poets Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini Goals for poets. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to receive the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-37/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211102T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211102T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T114013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T114013Z
UID:9609-1635874200-1635879600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Prose Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Prose Mini Goals. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/prose-mini-goals-32/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211101T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211101T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T112959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T112959Z
UID:9580-1635789600-1635795000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:SFF Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Mini goals session for science fiction and fantasy writers. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/sff-mini-goals-9/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211030T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211030T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T112938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T112938Z
UID:9545-1635591600-1635609600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Material and Materials
DESCRIPTION:SQUAD 10\, LEEDS – VENUE TBC \nA workshop in bookmaking\, writing and play with Stevie Ronnie. \nWe will be discussing the materiality of books and what affect a book’s material aspects can have on the way the reader experiences our words. We’ll consider the benefits and drawbacks for writers of producing and distributing your own work in the form of handmade books\, and explore the ways in which the practice of making can feed into our writing practice.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/material-and-materials/
LOCATION:Leeds
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211027T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211008T114048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T114058Z
UID:9724-1635355800-1635361200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Poets Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Poets mini goals. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-36/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211026T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211026T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T112822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T112822Z
UID:9543-1635271200-1635276600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Awesome Prose - The Road
DESCRIPTION:One of the squad’s 3 Awesome Reading groups – designed to think about how we can read as writers. \nIf you want to join us\, then here’s what you need to know: \nWe will be reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The text can be bought here. \nThe Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy. \nA father and his young son walk alone through burned America\, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road\, the clothes they are wearing\, a cart of scavenged food – and each other.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/awesome-prose-the-road/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211025T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T113528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T113528Z
UID:9598-1635183000-1635188400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Script Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to Squad 1-9. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting\, you are welcome to join\, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/script-mini-goals-18/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211023T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211023T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T112714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T112714Z
UID:9541-1634986800-1635004800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:10 Things Every Story Needs
DESCRIPTION:SQUAD 10\, LEEDS – VENUE TBC \nIn this workshop\, we take Mark’s ten questions and apply them to your favourite films\, films you hated and some movie classics. Whatever your genre\, the ten tests Mark takes you through can be applied to any form of writing – scripts\, novels\, short stories and even longer narrative poems. In our last Squad evaluation someone said\, “I learned more in that workshop than I did in the whole of my MA.”
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/10-things-every-story-needs/
LOCATION:Leeds
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211020T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211020T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211008T114026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T114026Z
UID:9722-1634751000-1634756400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Poets Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Poets mini goals. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-35/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211019T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211019T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T113951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T113951Z
UID:9607-1634664600-1634670000@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Prose Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Prose Mini Goals. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/prose-mini-goals-31/
LOCATION:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211018T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211018T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T113122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T113122Z
UID:9586-1634580000-1634585400@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Squad 10 Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Squad 10 mini goals session. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/squad-10-mini-goals-8/
LOCATION:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211014T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210823T112510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T112510Z
UID:9539-1634239800-1634245200@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Yes\, Poetry Can Handle This - Writing the Unpoetic
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM\, OPEN ALL SQUADS \nThis workshop looks at the thematic boundaries of poetry – the gnarly\, uncomfortable edges – and asks how we can write about things that are inherently unpoetic. There’s a tension between being gratuitously unpleasant vs. making good art that says the unsaid. We’re going to think about where that line is and how we can navigate it.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/yes-poetry-can-handle-this-writing-the-unpoetic/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211013T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211013T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20211008T114003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T114003Z
UID:9720-1634146200-1634151600@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Poets Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:Poets mini goals. \nEmail billie@writingsquad.com for the link.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/poets-mini-goals-34/
LOCATION:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211011T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211011T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170031
CREATED:20210906T113457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T113457Z
UID:9596-1633973400-1633978800@www.writingsquad.com
SUMMARY:Script Mini Goals
DESCRIPTION:We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week\, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. \nThis is open to Squad 1-9. If you haven’t been to a previous meeting\, you are welcome to join\, just let steve@writingsquad.com know you want to come. \nYou will be sent a link before the meeting and you can go on Zoom from your computer or phone.
URL:https://www.writingsquad.com/cal/script-mini-goals-17/
LOCATION:Online
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