First and foremost, today we passed out club passes. If you need one come see any one of the Julias. You can even ask a Julia who isn't part of writing club, just to be silly.

Secondly, today's topic was mystery. We discussed the rules for mystery writing from this about.com article.

Some of the things we elaborated on were not worrying about realism as long at it is realistic in your universe, not messing with your readers, having interesting crimes committed, and focusing on plot first. Also CSI puns. A good tip from Noah was to think of your plot in a chronological set of clues, and then scatter those clues.

James was the first to complete a writing prompt! Go James!!!

This week's writing prompt is: "She had memories to forget."

In today's meeting, the club was introduced. Additions to the club this year are an end-of-the-year pizza party, book movie-adaption viewing trips, and weekly writing prompts. Also, the regular updating of this blog. The prompt for this week was "Don't worry, everyone does that on the first day." Next week's topic will be on the mystery genre.