Cathy Pickens, author and
former president of our national Sisters in Crime organization, will be our
guest speaker at the August 6 meeting of our Upstate SinC chapter.
Pickens’ interactive
program is titled “Create Your Path.” Here’s what she has to say about the
program.
“Creativity is not a
mysterious muse-bestowed gift but a discipline
that can be developed.
Writers
know they are creative. This workshop
will introduce techniques and a process for developing and predictably tapping
into that creativity.
- To develop each individual’s creative process, we’ll explore:
- Creativity myths and misunderstandings,
- Discoveries in brain science,
- The importance of both play and mastery,
- The secret of the notebook, and
- Techniques for capturing and refining our ideas and our writing.”
The monthly Sisters in Crime meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, August 6, at The Runway Café, 21 Airport Rd, Greenville,
S.C. Be there at 6:15 p.m. to
meet Pickens and enjoy chapter fellowship. Supper should be served
at 6:30. The presentation will begin right after new and old business at 7
p.m. Both the dinner and the meeting are open to the public.
In order for the Runway Café to speed service, dinner
orders must be emailed to Ellis Vidler by noon the day of the
meeting. If you can't dine with us, we would still like to know you plan to
attend so we can be sure you have a seat. To see the special menu for our
group, please visit our website — www.sincupstatesc.blogspot.com — and click on the Advance Order
Menu tab at right. If you place an order and do not attend or fail to
cancel by noon, you will be charged for the meal. And like always, we'll
enjoy it.
Cathy Pickens’ first mystery, SOUTHERN FRIED, won St. Martin’s
Press Malice Domestic Award for Best Traditional Mystery. In her other lives, Cathy has been a lawyer
and business professor at Queens University of Charlotte, former president of
Sisters in Crime, on the MWA national board, and president of the regional
Forensic Medicine Program. She now
consults with businesses and artists on developing their own creative process
and teaches both entrepreneurship and creative writing at the Mecklenburg
County Jail.
