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 [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am: Cutting to the Chase and Writing First Chapters That HOOK

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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for September.
Date: 9/7 – 10/2/09
Workshop title: Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am: Cutting to the Chase and Writing First Chapters That HOOK
Description: Did you know that prospective editors and agents sometimes make their decision as to whether or not to contract [...]

Yosemite Romance Writers Online Workshop: Writing Hot, Delicious Love Scenes

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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for September.
Date: 9/7/ – 10/2/09
Workshop title: Writing Hot, Delicious Love Scenes
Description: Do the love scenes or sex scenes in your romance novel lack that magical spark and sizzling heat that makes the reader go WHEW!!? The romance genre has exploded [...]

Yosemite Romance Writers Online Workshop: Storyboarding

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 [...]

YRW Online Workshop: PR Boot Camp

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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

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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

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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? [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Developing Plot and Tension in the Novel

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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for July.
Date: 07/06 – 07/31
Workshop title: Developing Plot and Tension in the Novel
Description: You may have wonderful ideas for your novel, fascinating characters, and beautiful writing, but those attributes alone won’t tie a novel together. Plot and the ensuing tension [...]