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Minutes of PWSA Meeting
February 24, 2007
Officers in Attendance:
Will Prescott
Elizabeth Childers
Jocelyn Pedersen
Isaac
Total number assembled (including officers and Prof.
Chester): 12
Meeting brought to order at 2:07 p.m.
Lots of snacks! Thanks to everyone who brought them.
Prof. Chester conducted an exercise on EMOTION from
her book
The Crimson Claw
? We read through pgs. 257- 259
? We underlined demonstrations of emotion and put
boxes around direct statements of emotion (DS) as
shown below:
Next month, we will analyze Stimulus & Response at the
PWSA meeting. Check by Will's office (GH 3015) to get
the excerpt to read.
Norman Galaxy of Writers
o Next Meeting March 3rd @ 10:00 at McFarland, Room
209
o Speaker will be Larry Colbert
o He will teach on outlining a novel
o Bring your outline to the meeting
Committee Reports
Short Course
o Last Short Course was in 2000
o We’re brining this back next semester
o Already have a couple of speakers who will come to
talk to us for free.
o Will is looking for volunteers to help him
Ambassadors Group
o THey will be updating the display cases in Gaylord
Hall
o PWSA can have our own display case
o Lauren can help get this set up with Lance
o She will take care of this for us this semester and
help to set it up. After that, we’ll be on our own
o Ambassadors applications will be available soon
Lounge
o opens every day at lunch from 12:00 - 1:00
o Donations of books, DVDs, screenplays are welcome
o Volunteers needed to sit in the lounge so it can be
open additional hours
Fundraising
o We missed the UOSA budgetary cutoff last August
o Emergency funding is available, Isaac will apply for
that this coming week
o Isaac will have more details on that later
o PWSA now has a small business checking account at
Bank of Oklahoma
o Donations accepted through checks
Web Site
o Delayed—we don’t have OU web space because we
weren’t an official group, but soon we should have a
way to donate funds through the web site which is now
under construction
Advocacy
o Increase our visibility
o Finding constructive ways to get the administration
to notice us and help us
T-Shirts
o Talk to professor in Graphic Designs College in Fine
Arts
o Eric Anderson, professor
o Lauren Hartley has a t-shirt logo connection and a
t-shirt printing connection [log in to unmask]
o “Only a Blockhead doesn’t write for Money” find the
quote by Samuel Johnson (google it)
Book Clubs
o Still forming, and will probably do little exercises
like we did in our meeting today.
o Interested parties should talk to Elizabeth
Blogs
o Blogging is affecting the writing industry
o Blogging is a way to make money
o Will gave us some handouts on blogging with related
examples and articles
o Our Blog is in its infancy
o A hub of info. for PWSA
o BLOG SPOT: oupwsa.blogspot.com
o [log in to unmask]
Meeting was adjourned at 3:05 p.m.
William D. Prescott
University of Oklahoma
office no. 405-325-2710
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