September Norman Galaxy of Writers Speaker Meeting
When: Saturday, September 14, 2019
            Business Meeting begins at 10:00 a.m.
            Speaker Meeting begins at 11:00 a.m.
            Feel free to attend both or just the speaker meeting.
Please note the new temporary location while the library is in the process of moving to the new building:
Where: West Wind UU Congregation, 1309 Boyd Street, Norman, OK
Hope to see you there, and bring a friend!


                     Chris Carter Shows How To Perfect That Short Story

“Literary Structures: Deep, Deep, and Deeper.” That’s what we’ll discover by following Dr. Chris Carter’s lead through Katherine Mansfield’s story “The Daughters of the late Colonel.” He will illustrate several of the kinds of structure at work in a piece of fiction. And you’ll have your own copy to do it with at the meeting. But before that, you can download and read the story on Google.
“We will find structures more or less on the surface, measurable by clock and calendar, and we will find deeper psychological and archetypal structures, not so easily marked off by any standard,” Chris promises us. “But even the comparatively shallow structures involve time, and nothing has deeper roots than our sense of time. Mansfield is particular good at crafting a story using some of all of this.” And maybe you will be, too, after spending time with Chris Carter.

Chris Carter is from Oklahoma City and a graduate of OU. Although his work took him to several other states, for the past six years, he’s been at the University of Oklahoma, lecturing in the Department of English and the Osher Lifelong Learning institute.

Perfect That Short Story for the Contest—Chris Carter Shows How
“Literary Structures: Deep, Deep, and Deeper.” That’s what we’ll discover by following Dr.
Chris Carter’s lead through Katherine Mansfield’s story “The Daughters of the late Colonel.”
He’ll illustrate several of the kinds of structure at work in a piece of fiction. And you’ll have
your own copy to do it with at the meeting. But before that, you can download and read it on
Google.
“We will find structures more or less on the surface, measurable by clock and calendar, and we
will find deeper psychological and archetypal structures, not so easily marked off by any
standard,” Chris promises us. “But even the comparatively shallow structures involve time, and
nothing has deeper roots than our sense of time. Mansfield is particular good at crafting a story
using some of all of this.” And maybe you will be, too, after spending time with Chris Carter.
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Chris Carter is from Oklahoma City and a graduate of OU. But his many kinds and places of
work took him to several other states. For the past six years, though, he’s been back at the
University of Oklahoma, lecturing in the Department of English and the Osher Lifelong Learning
institute.
September 14 is the date, ten to noon, the time. The Central Library is in the process of moving
into its new digs. So, our meeting this month and the next will be at the West Wind UU
Congregation, 1609 W. Boyd.