romance

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Out With The Old, In With The New by KIMBERLY VAN METER

By Alice ⋅ April 17, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Readers aren’t the only ones who enjoy a connected series; authors like the comfort and familiarity of stories that spiral out from a central idea, town, character set, etc, as well for writers become invested in their characters’ lives just as their readers do.
However, there comes a time to say goodbye to those beloved characters [...]

2010 Silken Sands Writers’ Conference

By Cynthia Eden ⋅ September 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Join us for a conference at the beach!
The Silken Sands Writers’ Conference will be held March 19-21, 2010, in beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida. Our conference hotel is located directly on the pristine beach–and you can see dolphins swim from your gulf-view room. Come join us for writing workshops, editor & agent pitch sessions, and networking [...]

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 [...]

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: 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: 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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 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. [...]

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