Archive for August, 2009

Yosemite Romance Writers Online Workshop: Storyboarding

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ August 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for September.
Date: 9/7 – 10/2/09
Workshop title: Storyboarding
Description: Hate blinking cursors or rewriting? Have a very time-pressed schedule? To avoid all of those and maintain sanity in the middle of deadlines and challenging books requires a little more pre-plotting than Ready with some characters, Set [...]

Living

By Alice ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov
This post was submitted by Alice.

YRW Online Workshop: PR Boot Camp

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for August.
Date: 08/03/09 – 08/28/09
Workshop title: PR Boot Camp
Gone are the days when a good book was all an author needed to build her career. Today, authors need to master the art of self-promotion to build the buzz that leads [...]

YRW Online Workshop: How to Createa Classic Tough Heroines

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for August.
Date: 08/03/09 – 08/28/09
Workshop title: How to Create Classic Tough Heroines
As martial artist, Jacqui Jacoby is interested in self-defense and how women are portrayed in the media. At first, it seemed as if it was only Hollywood showing women [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Plot Doctor: Fixing Your Story Problems

By Sandra Marlow ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for August.
Date: 8/10 – 9/4/09
Workshop title: Plot Doctor: Fixing Your Story Problems
Do you create wonderful, three-dimensional characters who then stumble around blindly in your book, trying to find a story? Are you a “pantser” who writes yourself into a corner? [...]

RWAOnline Class – No More Mary Sues!

By Anika Daniels ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

***** Permission to Forward Granted *****
RWA® Online Chapter presents:
CHARACTERIZATION: Making Strengths and Weaknesses Work For You (or No More Mary Sues!)
Instructor: Linnea Sinclair
Dates: August 17 – 30, 2009
Registration Opens: August 3, 2009
Registration Deadline: August 16, 2009
Fee: $15 Non-Chapter members. RWAOL Chapter #136 members; free.
Payment method: PAYPAL is recommended!
It’s safe and fast! Check and money [...]

September Class: Sex Between The Pages: Understanding and Crafting Sexual Tension

By Alice ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

September 1-28, 2009
“Sex Between The Pages: Understanding and Crafting Sexual Tension”
by Mary Buckham
www.WriterUniv.com
How do you write great sexual tension? That’s the question Mary Buckham posed to Linda Howard, Stella Cameron, Susan Andersen, Nancy Warren and more romance writers who write great sexual tension from sweet to spicy hot. In her workshop, Mary combines these lessons [...]

STORY TIPS #8 – MYTHIC STRUCTURE – INTRODUCTION

By Alice ⋅ August 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This month, and for the next few months, we’re going to take a look at structural variations of stories. Of course, these variations are not the sole property of the screenwriting world any more than three act structure is. However, many of the screenwriting sources talk about these variations and I hope they’re helpful to [...]

Planning Your Novel Synopsis

By Alice ⋅ August 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Author: Mervyn Love
Starting a novel for the first time can be daunting. You’re confident that your story is a cracker, but you’re not entirely sure how the storyline goes, in detail, at this stage. What you need is a simple way of sorting out how the whole thing progresses from start to finish. So read [...]

Em-dash Use and Placement – Punctuation For Fiction Writers By Kelly Schaub

By Alice ⋅ August 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In case you are unfamiliar with this favorite of fiction writers, the em-dash–often typed as two hyphens next to each other–is used to set off parenthetical information, as I did in this sentence, or to indicate a break in–
What? Mommy’s typing. No, you cannot have more ice cream.
The em-dash also indicates a shift or break [...]

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