TUCSON SISTERS in CRIME PROGRAM
OCTOBER 2025 MEETING
Saturday, October 18, 2025
at 12:30 PM to 1:00 for chapter news & 1:00 PM MST to 2:30 PM MST to hear our speaker via ZOOM.
Please note: Our meetings are at Mountain Standard Time.
We are not on Daylight Savings Time.
Writing is Like Painting: Layering Enhancements to Transform Plot into Story
By Claire A Murray
Writing engages a creative process that mirrors my acrylic painting process. In both painting and writing, to turn a free-form creative first draft into a more polished, sometimes restrained, end result, I layer in enhancements.
In this session, I will demonstrate both paintings and a short story that use enhancements to transform a draft into an engaging result. In addition, I’ll review how Story is the result of Plot and Structure. You’ll leave with a writing exercise that can help you use enhancements in your writing to sprinkle in details that reveal character, motivation, and backstory to better engage your readers.
Claire A Murray writes, paints, hosts write-ins for connection, inspiration, and sanity, and reviews books for Kings River Life Magazine. Lead Editor for two anthologies, 2023’s SoWest: Wrong Turn and 2025’s SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!, she belongs to Sisters in Crime (and is president of Desert Sleuths), the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Mystery Writers of America. Play the Hand You’re Dealt is her short story collection. Claire is completing a suspense fantasy novel and the first book of a trilogy.
Please join us Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 12:30 PM to 1:00 for chapter news & 1:00 PM MST to 2:30 PM MST to hear our speaker via ZOOM. Please note: Our meetings are at Mountain Standard Time. We are not on Daylight Savings Time.
Cost for Members is $5.00.
If you are not a member of Tucson Sisters in Crime and/or have questions about the regular ZOOM meetings, please use this link: reply2tsinc@gmail.com
It’s time to JOIN or RENEW
Tucson Sisters in Crime for 2025.
It’s time to JOIN or RENEW Tucson Sisters in Crime for 2025. We have a few special opportunities for members only. Members have opportunities to participate in podcasts with Big Blend Radio and TV. Members get first choice at signup time with the TSinC Tucson Festival of Books booth. 2025 will have a call for submissions for More Trouble in Tucson to be published before Tucson Festival of Books in 2026.
Full Membership is only $25/year. Go here to JOIN/RENEW Navigation Tab.
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