Cambridge Writers Workshop visits Byesville Rotary

Pictured: Joe Waske, Byesville Rotary Pres. Elect; Beverly Justice, Sam Besket, and Jerry Wolfrom, members of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop.

Readings for June 15:

• June Rotarian, World roundup, p. 14; North Korea, p. 19, June calendar, p. 21.

Jerry Wolfram told the Rotary that the Writers’ Workshop is now 3 years old and has about 20 writers who regularly attend meetings. He described the group as eclectic. The members represent all types of people from different parts of the county with different interests in writing. Some are interested in writing specific types of fiction; others are interested in history and non-fiction. They share one thing in common—each of the members wants to be published.

He emphasized that writing is and getting writing assignments to be done by the next meeting. Members also spend time during the week working on their own stories.

Wolfram issued an open invitation to anyone interested in writing and published to talk to a club member. The club can offer good advice, backed by experience, on how to get a book published. The club members have recently published their 3rd book of short stories written by club members—The Wills Creek Trilogy.

Sam Besket, a member of the Writers Workshop, presented the results of research he has done on the history of common words such as “golf” and idioms like “a dead ringer.” “Golf” came from Scotland and is shorthand for “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden.”

Beverly Justice presented one of her fictional short stories about a tornado and Mayor Day.

The meeting concluded with two of the rotary members reading a radio script created by the Writers’ Workshop. The script was a takeoff on the Abbott and Costello comedy routine “Who’s on First.” In this case, a customer was trying to purchase a new computer from a not-so-helpful salesman.

The club’s next meeting will be 7:30 am, June 14, 2010, at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Anyone interested in learning more about the Byesville Rotary can call Membership Chairs Marty Patchen, 740-685-3828, or Larry Miller, 740-439-2767.