Haunted House info and Open House

 Hi Writers Guild,

We still need a couple of people to stand at a table this Saturday in the Anderson building anytime between 9 and 1pm to tell people about the Writers Guild. Let me know if you can work any of that time. 

• We're on the second floor. 
• Podcasters Sania, Jess, Jessica, and Randy, come into the large room and find me. 
• We talk on the radio at 9:30am. 

Also, there is a lot of work we have to do at the next meeting with drawing, painting and building for the Haunted House. If we start the meeting at 2pm that day, can you guys come in earlier to work on the props, decor, and costumes? Otherwise, we may have to dedicate 2 meetings for completing the work. The meeting is next week and not tomorrow. 

• I'll bring the stuff up at 2pm and if you can come early, please just show up. 
• Since we will be working on stuff here, our online guys, will you draw some scenery stuff to give us ideas? 
• Any online writers, be writing some dates that we can paint on the tombstones. We decided to just put the angels and the dates on with no epitaphs. 

We're mainly building 

• tombstones to stand up, covering them, pasting the angels onto the tombstones and painting dates (I made copies of the angels that we can cut out, paint, then paste on the tombstones).  
• Then we're tracing tombstones on large pieces of paper, painting them and adding some scenery in the background.
• We're also pinning costumes together
• I have the black light to try on the clothes and scenery

Hopefully, I'll see a few of you this Saturday and I'll see the rest of you next Wednesday for a working meeting!

Thanks, 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 7/9/2025

There were 12 members in attendance: Mikhail, Chad, Betty, Randy, Jess, Dale, Jessica, Amare, Sania, Ellie, Madison, and Cindy

What we did:

1. We broke into clans to create a horror, psychological thriller with a comedy twist
2. Everyone, make sure to send me your drawings, music, and videos you took during the meeting or post it in Discord. I will get to downloading everything either today or next week.
3. Dale, I already have yours. Thanks!

Open House – Saturday, July 19 from 8:30 am-1pm. 2nd floor Anderson Building

• We are doing 2 things at Open House: recruiting at the Writers Guild table and talking on the radio.
  •                 Live podcast- We are scheduled to talk on the radio either at 9 or 9:20. 
    • Therefore,  please come to the Anderson no later than 8:30 am so we can make sure everyone is there and ready to go for the airing.
                                     
    • These people signed up to do the podcast:
      
      
    •                                                 Jessica, Jess, Amare, Sania, Randy

Need recruiters –

• So far, we have Amare as a recruiter.
• We need more.
• Let me know if you want to stand at the table and talk about the Writers Guild any time between 8:30 and 1pm.
• You don’t have to work the whole time.
• Ellie made a cool game that you can play with people, so you would be playing the game and talking about what we do. You would also be getting them to write their name and email down for new members. Thanks, Ellie!

Already published? 

• I am contacting our members who have been published to see if they want to be featured by our CTC marketing department. They would love to hear your story and how Writers Guild was part of your journey, whether it be writing, art, digital art, music and more. 

 

We will be creating costumes and scenery at the next Writers Guild meeting. Next meeting is on July 23 at 4pm. 

See you then!

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 6.25.25

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 6/25/2025

There were 14 members in attendance: Betty, Ryan, Mark, Sania, Mikhail, Micah, Jessica Jonathan, Felipe, Jacob, Randy, the other Jessica (Jess), Dale, and Cindy

• We first discussed some of the ways we can create a glowing effect on our walls and tombstones for the Haunted House
•  The Jacob gave a speech on “Show, don’t Tell.” It was great and much appreciated.
•  Then we worked on our own projects.

 

Our next meeting is July 9 at 4pm in the library room 211.

•  If you need to meet online, let Cindy know by the day before the meeting.
• Send Cindy ideas for the next meeting agenda.

Later!

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 06/12/2025

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 06/11/2025

 There were 11 members in attendance: Caleb, Trynity, Jacob, Mark, Ryan, Jessica, Betty Jess, Felipe (welcome back!), Jonathan, and Sania.

·         We all worked on Showing and not Telling which is a concept Jacob introduced. We practiced doing this skill which is vital in writing stories.

  

·         Please bring whatever you are working on to the next meeting as it will be solely a work meeting. We keep saying we don’t have enough time to work on our stuff, so we are only focusing on that.

 Open House

·         *Important* We need volunteers to work Open House on Saturday, July 19 starting at 9am till about 11:30am. If you can work anytime during that slot please let Cindy know.

·         You will be telling people about the Writers Guild

·         Also, that day, Writers Guild members are going to be interviewed on the radio. If you want to speak on the radio, please let me know asap.  

Our next meeting is Weds June 25 at 4pm.

 Create, creative people!

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes June 3, 2025

 

There were 13 members in attendance: Mark, Ryan, Betty, Dale, Chloe, Jonathan, Randy, Madison, Laisha, Jadan, Micah, Sania and Cindy

We found out today that separately we’re sort of ok at writing epitaphs for our weeping angel graveyard, but together, we sounded like we were run over by a bus. We had a lot of fun trying to write them, though.

Separately, we made some good efforts:

• Here lies Mark, From creative mind to valiant hero 1840-1864
• Here lies Cindy, 1795-1830 She was looking forward to the vaccine
• Here lies Bruce, loved dressing up as a bat and died by a bat
• Do not blink twice: 1901-1919 Ima Goner
• Here lies one of many who will haunt your weary way. Listen to my whisper before the wind carries it away 1851-1901: Willow Maker
• Look and see how close I am to thee: 1980-1998 CeCe Mei
• I dare you to look away: 1958-2007L Dari Rare
• Born too early and never died. Dig me up and look inside (this was good). 2002-2007: Urlys Triedo
• Cry for me lest I force you: 1888-1900 Freddy Frackle
• Did you think I’d stay gone? 1940-2022 Stile Hur
• I never wanted more than this: 1929-1959 Lazee Luber
• Here lies the one who didn’t get away 1818-1890 Reb Yuma
• Now I know what’s up Bugie Bunnnie 1931- 2000
• Here lies a boy who made up too many words 2007-2025 Bartholemew Simp
• I am knocking at the door of your mind, let me in.

Together, we had some difficulty:

• Here lies what was gonorrhea upside and he butt flew away younger over
• The whole end of a wait huh no crusty crab sandwich are sad
• Here lies Dave Duo uh he chicken leg smoked tail syphilis I read
• What has fungus toe nail done diarrhea radiation emo flaming chickens squawking outside
• Okay what in the world is blue men dancing crazily salsa in the nice

These sound like really bad foreign language translations 😊

• I know some of you have graduated or moved on. It's ok if you want us to take you off the mailing list. We also love to keep you in touch with us. But if you would like to be removed from the mailing list, please let me know in a separate email. Thanks! 
  

Our next meeting is next Wednesday at 4pm.

1. Let me know if you need an online link
2. Send Cindy any agenda ideas
3. Have fun this week!

Later, 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 5.14.2025

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 5/14/25

There were 11 members in attendance: Jacob, Betty, Ryan, Mark, Violet, Jess, Sania, Jonathan, Micah, Maddilyn, and Cindy

New Member - We did a Meet and Greet with new member Betty. Welcome!

Radio Invitation –

• ·         We were invited to talk on KNCT-FM radio during and before the Open House event on Saturday, July 19 at 9:30am.
• ·                         So far, Jacob and Jonathan signed up.
• ·         We would like to do the pre-record at 1:30 on Tuesday, June 3.
• ·                         Jacob and Jonathan, let me know if I need to change that time.
• ·         Do any of you also want to talk on the radio either before or that day?
• ·                         Let me know asap.
• ·         You would just tell them about Writers Guild.

We shared what we have been working on.

We voted on doing a couple of work days during the summer for the Haunted House.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, May 28 at 4pm. Make sure to email Cindy to let her know if you need an online link for the meeting.

See you next time!

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes May 3

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 5/3/2025

There were 18 members in attendance: Devon, Tajane, Caleb, Jonathan, Chloe, Kiera, Sheli, Jessica, Jess, Mark, Sania, Violet, Laisha, Jeremiah, Micah, Amare, Madison, and Cindy

We did these things:

1) We briefly discussed what we will buy for the Haunted House

2) We came up with stories that had to use at least 3 genres

• We broke into groups
• Came up with our stories and pictures
• Then put it all together
• We had a ghost train, dinosaurs, dragons, aliens, space detectives, exploding heads, murderers, horrible eye-ball incidents, the Wild West, with exciting scenes and action.

3) We are still meeting during the summer, so keep coming! We’ll start working on the Haunted House as soon as we have supplies

 

 Next meeting: Weds May 14 at 4pm

See you soon!

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 4/30/2025

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 4/30/2025

There were 18 members in attendance: Devon, Tajane, Caleb, Jonathan, Chloe, Kiera, Sheli, Jessica, Jess, Mark, Sania, Violet, Laisha, Jeremiah, Micah, Amare, Madison, and Cindy

We did these things:

1) We briefly discussed what we will buy for the Haunted House

2) We came up with stories that had to use at least 3 genres

• We broke into groups
• Came up with our stories and pictures
• Then put it all together
• We had a ghost train, dinosaurs, dragons, aliens, space detectives, exploding heads, murderers, horrible eye-ball incidents, the Wild West, with exciting scenes and action.

3) We are still meeting during the summer, so keep coming! We’ll start working on the Haunted House as soon as we have supplies

 

4) Here’s the commercial link https://youtu.be/-WnQZpVbsmQ. Let me know suggestions to change anything

 

5) Next meeting: Weds May 14 at 4pm

See you soon!

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 4/2/2025

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 4/2/2025

There were 17 members in attendance: Tajane, Cy, Caleb, Kiera, Sheli, Jessica V, Antonio, Jessica T, Chole, Violet, Micah, Jonathan, Sania, Donald,  Amare, Madison and Cindy

• We held a vote for Vice President and Madison won. Congratulations! (Madison, please copy and paste these minutes into Discord). Thanks!
• Jonathan said he would like to stay in office, so he’s still the President.

Then we worked on the commercial and filmed a bunch of stuff. We will finish at the next meeting.

Then Jessica, the Secretary, wrote “Cindy Storytime.” 😊

1. Our artists drew, our writers wrote, our musicians composed, and our videographers shot film.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, April 16 at 4pm. Make sure to let Cindy know you need a Teams link if you want to attend virtually.

See you then!

Meeting this Wednesday at 4pm

 Hi Creative People!

We have a meeting this Wednesday at 4pm at the library, in room 211. 

If you need to attend virtually, please hit reply (not reply all) and let me know you need a Teams invitation.

Agenda:

• Voting for President and Vice President
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• Bring your phone or a camera to record ourselves as we can just do an impromptu commercial recording based on our outline. 

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• Send ideas for the agenda to me.
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See you then! 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 3/13/2025

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 3/13/2025

There were 14 members in attendance: William, Jess, Madison, Jessica, Jacob, Dale, Mark, Kim, Caleb, Micah, Laisha, Edward, Randy and Cindy

We postponed the vote till next meeting…………next meeting in 3 weeks…………..April 2

• Discussed what we need for the Haunted House
•  
• Members asked for a copy of the Constitution, Bylaws, Mission Statement 
•  
• We played a Dominoes story
•  
• Discussed working on the commercial next meeting

Ya'll be safe during Spring Break!

See you April 2!

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 3/5/2025

Hi Peeps!

There were 15 members in attendance: Tajane, Devon, Ryan, Antonio, Sheli, Kiera, Mark, Caleb, Allyra, Sania, Violet, Kimberly, Mikhail, Randy, and Cindy

Cindy “forced” us all to create something for Byways. 😊 Then she told them they HAD to register and turn it in. She told them she would stalk them if they didn’t.

Here’s the registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf6IOqjIrXtV14gjAjaNa2GFd_ehkDfp8UA0mkqnw9TwgiJQ/viewform

• Or scan the QR code on the attached flyer

• Email a picture of your drawing, sculpture, or painting to byways@ctcd.edu. Email a Word document for your writing to byways@ctcd.edu.

The next meeting is next Wednesday, March 12, because in 2 weeks, we have spring break.

See you next week!

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 2/19/2025

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 02/19/2025

There were 20 people in attendance: Madison, Logan, Tajane, Devon, Chloe, Sheli, Kiera, Trynity, Jacob, Caleb, Amare, Mark, John, Jessica, Kimberly, Violet, Maddilyn, Sania, Jonathan, and Cindy

We talked about:

·         Byways. Here’s the link. Enter, please. 😊 (See, I’m not that scary). https://www.ctcd.edu/academics/library/byways/

·         Cozmic Con

·                         We voted to do an activity and will discuss at the next meeting playing some type of         puzzles at the event and selling the rest of our hacky sacks.

·          ·         We did a Meet and Greet for our new members

·          ·         Chess

·                         We talked about the Chess Tournament coming up April 10

·                         Attending the chess lessons at the library, Feb 27, March 6, March 13, March 27 and        April 3 from 5-7pm

·         American Sign Language Class

·                         If you’re interested in attending the Sign Language class, either let me or Trynity know.   Email me at coser2@ctcd.edu for more info. We’ll post a flyer in Discord.

Then we did several things……………………………………….

·         Chose a song, wrote about it or drew something that was inspired by the song.

·         We worked on Byways entries

·         We brainstormed what we would put in a commercial to market the Writers Guild

Next meeting is March 5. Tentative agenda:

·         Discussion of cost of material for Haunted House

·         Making money

·         Byways

·         Tee shirts -who has been to at least 5 meetings and helped out with an event? If this is you and you don’t have a tee shirt, let me know.

·         I think Jonathan has ideas and also remember to send me agenda ideas so I can get them to Jonathan

Later gators!

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 2/6/2025

 

Writers Guild meeting minutes 2/5/2025

There were 26 members in attendance: Maria, Devon, Tajane, Jacob (Treasurer),  Logan, Ryan, John, Chloe, Sheli, Kiera, Dale, Violet, Jayla, Sania, Jessica (Secretary), Haven, Laisha, Donald, Amare, Maddilyn, Kimberly, Jonathan (President), Mark, Randy, Jess and Cindy.

1) We did a meet and greet for our new members and for some we haven’t seen in a while. Welcome and welcome back!

2) We created a very bizarre story about sheep, wizards, cannibals, sharks, Tik-Tok, and an arms dealer and then a very funny announcer with an Australian accent retold the newsflash.

3) Then we broke into clans and shared what we are working on in music, poetry, writing, artwork, and video/photography.

4) Byways was discussed briefly with more badgering to come. Here’s the link with info: https://www.ctcd.edu/academics/library/byways/

 

Note: We discovered that if you need to meet with us online, please email Cindy the morning of the meeting and let her know you need to get into Teams. She can only invite one person at a time and not the list as she regrettably found out yesterday.

Remember to join via app and not browser.

Our next meeting is Wednesday, Feb 19 at 4pm. See you then!

 

Meeting Minutes January 22, 2025

 

Writers Guild meeting minutes for January 22, 2025

There were 12 members in attendance: Tajane, Chloe (new member), Devon (new member), Caleb, Allyra, Sheli, Kiera, Dave, Amare, Cindy, Sania and Jo (come to visit us again) 😊 Welcome new members!

We did the meet and greet, then talked business stuff:

·         We needed volunteers for Welcome Bash. Thank you Tajane, Laisha, Jayla, and Amare! (Hope I didn’t miss anyone). They recruited about 30 more people!

·         We need volunteers to be in a play on Feb 19 at noon. Caleb volunteered to play MLK Jr., a new member, Trynity wants to volunteer also. Does anyone else want to play Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, or Toussaint Couverture? ESOL Professor Dianna Ramos will give you a script that you can read.

We did an activity where we practiced pulling in the reader. Many of you write and forget the reader can’t picture what you see. So, we worked on not just telling a story, but to make a story relevant to the reader.

The next meeting is Wednesday February 5 at 4pm in the library, room 211.

Please send activity ideas for the upcoming meetings.

·         People asked if we could do a Guild War again

·         Another idea is to create a commercial for the Guild

Important! I am working on getting Teams to work during our meetings. I promise I will get the link right for the next meeting.

 

Meeting Minutes January 9, 2025

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 01/09/2025

There were 10 members at the meeting: Jacob Sania, Ryan, Tajane, Mark, Gerald (new member), Violet, Caleb, Jonathan, and Brandi (substituted as sponsor because Cindy was out)  

At the meeting

·         We had a meet and greet

·         Jacob, our Treasurer talked about the budget and a fundraiser

·         Members talk about what they created during the break.

Next meeting, we will talk about getting volunteers for the Welcome Bash and Byways

·         What is creativity mean to you?

·         What would you like to do with your creativity?

·         Ideas for this semester's meetings

Out of Group Activity

·         Start thinking about what you want to submit to Byways if you are a CTC student or were one Summer, Fall 2024 or this semester.

Next meeting January 22 at 4 pm.

Later gators!

Meeting minutes 12/11/24

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 12/11/2024

We had 20 members in attendance: Tajane, Devon, Ryan, Jacob, Dale, Sean, Sheli, Kiera, Jessica, Mark, Madison, Jayla, Caleb, Violet, Amare, Jonathan, Edward, Sania and Cindy (did I leave anyone out?)

• We ate junk food and played games.

• I attached the 2025 schedule.

• Congratulations to all of our graduates! We’re proud of you!

• Work on your Nanoramobazamo during the break.
  

• Stay in touch in Discord. If you need the link again, let me know.

Please have an amazing and safe holiday season and we’ll see each other next year!

Meeting minutes 12/4/2024

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes – 12/4/2024

There were 20 members in attendance: Jonathan, Jayla, Jennifer, Madison, Violet, Amare, Mark, Tajane, Donald, Dave, Sheli, Jessica, Roman, Gina, William, Jacob, Caleb, Judah and Cindy

We voted in 2 new officers:

Jonathan is President

Jacob is Treasurer

Congratulations!

We want to wish our graduates well and will miss them! We know you will do great in your life journey!

In this meeting, we focused on working on our creative areas and gave feedback.

We discussed preparing for Byways. Here’s the Byways registration and information: https://www.ctcd.edu/academics/library/byways/ Let Cindy know if you have questions.

Our next meeting is on December 11 at 4 pm. Bring snacks to share. I’ll bring some board games and let’s talk and have fun!

 

Reminder: I will be switching over to using Microsoft Teams and Webex will go away. There’s more members that didn’t get an invitation, so I will be sending those out in the next couple of weeks. Make sure to download it.

2025 info: I attached the 2025 meeting dates. Times still  4-5:30 pm in Room 211 in the CTC Library. 

 

Poems about the National Debt: a Partnership between the CTC Writers Guild and Net Impact

What we think of the National Debt

Growing heavier

Each year on the shoulders of

Our Grandchildren

by Mark R.

The debt grows slowly

Chains tying down the power

Of our nation

by Mark R. 

Sunk into the depths

Money spent that was never held

A debt of depths

by Ryan N. 

Money Overflows

Debt is insurmountable

It must be stopped now

by Amare D. 

Selfishness corrupts

Out comes propaganda from 

Illegal funding

by Judah K.

The U.S. Federal debt keeps

Skyrocketing, generation after generation

Society cares more about themselves

Than to the health of the country

by Laisha C.

Neverending Loss

Inflating like a balloon

The National Debt

by Shelianne M. 

National Debt weight

is overwhelmingly great 

How will we survive?

by Nathaniel R.

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 11/13/2024 (if you read it all the way through, you will find an amazing thing!)

 

Writers Guild 11/14/24

There were 28 members in attendance: Judah, Laisha (new member), Jadan, Madison, Kiera, Sheli, Jonathan, Ryan, Jacob, Logan (new member) Tajane, Christina (our Net Impact friend), Isabella, Gina, Mark, Amare, Caleb, Roman, Jayla, Sania, Nathaniel, Jennifer (new member), Jessica, Max, Sean, Kim, Edward, and Cindy

Announcements were made.

1) We need elves for Lighting of the Bell Tower Dec 3 from 6-8pm.

• Let Cindy know if you want to work it. 
• She will need your phone number. (Email it to her - don't reply to this email). 
• So far we have Judah, Sheli and Amare.
• You may get some type of elf shirt if you work.
• I’ll let everyone know.

2) Gina will be graduating, so we will have a Presidential election at the next meeting.

• Gina, you've been awesome and we'll miss your leadership!

3) The next meeting is on Wednesday Dec 4 at 4pm.

• We had to reschedule it because in 2 weeks we are in Thanksgiving break.

4) Our last meeting on Dec 11 will be a holiday party.

• Bring snacks and we can play games and have fun.

5) Haunted House/Fall Festival people, read the text I sent! I need an answer. 😊

 

For In-Guild activity:

• We played a one-word story game

• Then we created Haikus

• Some made Haikus about the National Debt and gave them to Christina for Net Impact

• We discussed the National Writing Contest and decided to do one from Friday Dec 13 to Jan 6 or you can start now and be done on Jan 6

• We realized we had new members so did the Meet and Greet later in the meeting

 

For Out-of-Guild activity:

Gina suggested that everyone work on answering the college question: “Tell us who you are.”

If anyone needs the Discord link, send a separate email to me. Laisha and Jennifer, I'll send you one. 

Amazing thing, I promised:

You are all amazing, inspiring, and creative! We are so glad that you are in our Guild! 

Later, gators,