Archive for March, 2009

Disaster! Beyond Goal, Motivation and Conflict

By Kristine Thompson ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

INSTRUCTOR: Lori Wilde
COST: $15 for NEORWA members/$20 for nonmembers. Registration information can be found at www.neorwa.com or contact Kristine Thompson at thompos@ameritech.net.
WHEN: March 2 to March 13 (6 lessons posted over 2 weeks)
WORKSHOP:
You’ve probably heard of Goal, Motivation and Conflict, but what about the most neglected, yet all-important aspect of the Disaster? Learn [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Writing Figuratively or Adding Impact by Using Figures of Speech

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
March.
Date: 3/2 – 3/27/09
Workshop title: Writing Figuratively or Adding Impact by Using Figures
of Speech
This workshop covers the benefits and dangers of using figurative
language in your writing and will cover such areas as the power of
metaphors; similies, personification, and allusion; metonymy,
antonomasia, [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Help! I’m Being Held Prisoner of Viewpoint!

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
March.
Date: 3/2 – 3/27/09
Workshop title: Help! I’m Being Held Prisoner of Viewpoint!
Ever have an editor write that you have a POV problem (yeah, like what
does THAT mean?) Let’s explore what POV is, what the rules are, what
the mistakes are. Let’s [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Turn up the Heat! Heightening Sexual Tension and Sensuality in Your Manuscript

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
March.
Date: 3/2 – 3/27/09
Workshop title: Turn up the Heat! Heightening Sexual Tension and
Sensuality in Your Manuscript
Editors want to buy spicy-hot romance stories now more than ever
before. How do you do it? In this class we will discuss all aspects of
sexual [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Block-Busting: Putting the Joy Back in Writing

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
March.
Date: 3/2 – 3/27/09
Workshop title: Block-Busting: Putting the Joy Back in Writing
At some point, almost all writers suffer from the inability to tell
The story they want. Part of writer’s block is a lack of joy in the
Process. So counselor Laurie [...]

Conducting Historical Research Online

By Kristine Thompson ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

***PERMISSION TO FORWARD GRANTED AND ENCOURAGED!***
NEORWA April 2009 Online Workshop
CONDUCTING HISTORICAL RESEARCH ONLINE
INSTRUCTOR: Eliza Knight
WHEN: April 6 to April 17 (6 lessons posted over 2 weeks)
COST: $15 NEORWA members/$20 for all others. www.neorwa.com for registration information or contact Kristine Thompson at thompos@ameritech.net.
WORKSHOP:
There is a plethora of information available [...]

YRW Online Workshop: What a Character!!! Jump from Cookie Cutter to Great 3-Dimensional Characters in Your Writing!

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
April.
Date: 4/6 – 5/1/09
Workshop title: What a Character!!! Jump from Cookie Cutter to Great
3-Dimensional Characters in Your Writing!
How many times have you heard how important it is to have
3-dimensional characters? That the publisher wants character-driven
stories, not plot-driven? To show, not [...]

YRW Online Workshop: The Contest Diva’s Guide to the Ins and Outs and Ups and Downs of Writing Contests

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
April.
Date: 4/6 – 5/1/09
Workshop title: The Contest Diva’s Guide to the Ins and Outs and Ups
and Downs of Writing Contests
Carrie Bradshaw might know sex (and shoes), but Lois Winston knows
contests. Inside and out. Up and down. Sideways, even. [...]

Yosemite Romance Writers Online Workshop: Creating Effective Sex Scenes

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
April.
Date: 4/6 – 5/1/09
Workshop title: Creating Effective Sex Scenes
Writing about sex in our stories is often a literary mine field. You
can easily find yourself caught up in clichés, aphorisms, and
euphemisms. You might end up romanticizing or depersonalizing sex, or
find the [...]

Cleveland Rocks Romance Workshop

By Kristine Thompson ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

***Permission to forward granted***
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America (NEORWA)
Cleveland Rocks Romance Workshop
Saturday, May 16, 2009
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Strongsville Holiday Inn
Got High Concept?
Presented by Lori Wilde
Would you like to:
* Propel your manuscript out of the slush pile?
* Razzle-dazzle editors with your high concept story?
* Trigger publishers to open their wallets?
* Impress the [...]

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