January 12, 2008 Meeting Minutes
Present: Lynn Crandall, Lisa Raymond, Ramona Burns, Robyn Bielawski, Nancy Purdy OLD BUSINESS
- Website – Robyn reminds members to provide a blurb on themselves for the website’s members section.
- Newsletter articles – Ramona will write an article for the spring issue; Nancy for summer, and Robyn for fall.
- Publicity – Robyn suggested a Prairie Hearts T-shirt that we can wear to meetings.
- Retreat – We discussed the Prairie Hearts Writers’ Retreat for our members and suggested locations that might provide food, laptop computer plug-ins, and atmosphere. The retreat is tentatively set for May 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. We are looking for a location. The date might change.
- Treasury report – HiDee was unable to attend.
NEW BUSINESS
- Reminder: Dues are $20. Please pay by the February meeting.
- Program: Robyn did a Tarot reading on each of us to enlighten us about the art and to help pinpoint areas concerning our writing projects.
- Plagiarism. We discussed the current plagiarism issue concerning Cassie Edwards and how professionals have responded.
- We postponed 2008 dreams to the next meeting.