Archive for March, 2009

YRW Online Workshop: Creating Effective Sex Scenes

By YosemiteRomanceWriters ⋅ 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 [...]

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

By YosemiteRomanceWriters ⋅ 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. [...]

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

By YosemiteRomanceWriters ⋅ 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 [...]

Becoming a Writer

By Alice ⋅ March 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

So Many Books, So Little Time
A new column by Dale Ketcham
You’ve seen the tee shirt. Maybe you even own it, because writers relate to that saying … so many books, so little time. I certainly do, which is why I’m thinning out my collection of how-to writing books. But before I pass them along to [...]

STORY TIPS #3 – Three Act Structure

By Alice ⋅ March 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Did I wear you all out last month? I hope not. This month, I promise to be a bit more reasonable.
Screenwriters learn early on that most screenplays are based on three act structure, a paradigm that goes back to Aristotle’s Poetics, written in 350 B.C.
The simplest restatement of three act structure is Beginning, Middle and [...]

Writing Query Letters that Count — Close the Deal with Your First Letter! By Mark Barnes

By Alice ⋅ March 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Your query letter can be a deal maker or a deal breaker. So, if your query letter just lies there, you’ve killed the sale immediately or your story or novel immediately. If you want that story — your baby — to be read, reach out of that query letter, grab the publisher, editor or literary [...]

Some Sticky Grammar Situations or How to Avoid Some Ugly Mistakes!

By Alice ⋅ March 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

by: Jan Kovarik
With the advent of electronic word-processing and spellchecker programs, many people just presume that simply by running spellchecker all of their grammar errors will be caught and corrected. This is simply not so. Spellchecker programs often include some grammar checking, but no man-made program can catch all the innuendoes of the English language.
This [...]

Get More Mileage From Your Postcard Marketing – 10 Easy Tips

By Alice ⋅ March 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

by David Handmaker
Each day people are surrounded by advertising everywhere they
go. How do you get your message to stand out from the rest and
be noticed by your future customer? An eye-catching postcard is
the quickest and most cost-effective way to get big results for
your business. Follow these ten tips for postcard marketing and
your direct mail response [...]

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