Workshop: Personality Plus – Making Your Characters Real

PERSONALITY PLUS: MAKING YOUR CHARACTERS REAL
Instructors: Sue Viders and Becky Martinez
Dates: Jan 10th 2010 – Feb 6th 2010
Registration Opens: December 27th, 2009
Registration Deadline: January 9th, 2010
Fee: $15 Non-Chapter members. RWAOL Chapter #136 members; free.
Payment method: PAYPAL is recommended! It’s safe and fast! Check and money orders also accepted.
FMI & Registration: www.rwaonlinechapter.org/campus.htm
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Creating Your Space Military: Using What We Have to Invent What You Need

Instructors: Linnea Sinclair and Michael L. Helfstein
January 4, 2010 through January 31, 2010
$10 for FFnP members and $25 for non-members
www.romance-ffp.com/event.cfm?EventID=91
At ease, writers! Let RITA(R) award winning science fiction romance author (and retired private detective) Linnea Sinclair and USNR (Ret.) Michael Helfstein show you how to mix real military facts with paranormal, science fiction, and [...]

Harry Potter for Writers

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The Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal Chapter of RWA Presents
A Writer’s Guide to Harry Potter
Instructor: Susan Sipal
January 4, 2010 through February 6, 2010
$10 for FFnP members and $25 for non-members
www.romance-ffp.com/event.cfm?EventID=81
Though many an envious writer would like to think JK Rowling’s secret to success is just a bunch of [...]

Story Sense/Story Logic

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The Passionate Ink Chapter of RWA Presents
Story Sense/ Story Logic
Instructor: Beth Daniels, aka Beth Henderson, J.B. Dane
January 4, 2010 – January 31, 2010
It doesn’t seem to matter whether the story I’m reading is someone’s manuscript or a published book, the element that is very irksome to find missing [...]

The 15 Minute Synopsis

Write a synopsis in 15 minutes? Impossible? No, author Sharon Page has written a quick “blurb” synopsis for a story in 15 minutes, and sold it! Sharon’s tips will help everyone build a synopsis just as efficiently, and she will reveal the most important secret to writing one quickly.
This workshop will also show how to [...]

Yosemite Romance Writers Online Workshop: Perfect People Are Boring/Secondary Characters

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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for October.
Date: 10/5/09 – 10/30/09
Workshop title: Perfect People Are Boring/Secondary Characters
Perfect People Are Boring will look at memorable characters from classic romances and popular movies and show how their flaws set up story conflict and internal conflict. Beth Cornelison will [...]

Yosemite Romance Writers Online Workshop: Mastering Point of View

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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for October.
Date: 10/5/09 – 10/30/09
Workshop title: Mastering Point of View
What’s the secret every successful author knows and most new authors don’t? It’s point of view (POV). In this workshop, Diane will show how truly understanding and mastering point of view [...]

Yosemite Romance Writers Online Workshop: Moving from Writer to Author

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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for October.

Date: 10/5/09 – 10/30/09

Workshop title: Moving from Writer to Author

Do you have a novel that is almost complete or now ready for revision? Have you been wondering what steps you should take to solicit useful feedback before [...]

How to Write Power Sentences Presented by June Diehl Nov 2 – Nov 16, 2009

You’ve developed real-life characters, learned to do more showing than telling, reworked description to become woven into characters and action, know how to write hooks and cliffhangers, make use of metaphors, flashbacks, and other devices. But what about something that is the basic of all good writing: sentence structure? What power does your writing have [...]

Building Blocks of Fiction: Characterization and Plotting Presented By Tambra Kendall

What: Learn how characterization and plotting weave together to make your story come alive. Knowing how to blend together characterization and plotting is essential. Being weak in either area can keep you from obtaining the contract you seek. This course will cover character development using GMC which in turn leads us to plotting. [...]