‘RWA-WF Blog’ Archives
Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops, and Contests
RWA Chapter Contests The Kiss Of Death Chapter's 2010 Daphne Du Maurier Award For Excellence In Mystery/Suspense deadline is March 15 for both published and unpublished contests. Judges for unpublished contest: category (series) - Patience Smith, Silhouette Intimate Moments; Michelle Grajkowski, Three Seas Literary Agency; historical - Alex [...]
Agent Jennifer Schober on Women’s Fiction
Good morning! Thank you for inviting me Edie— I love women’s fiction. WITH A PASSION. Ever since I was a little girl, I knew the value of reading layered, juicy stories about women and their lives. My love affair started with FOREVER by Judy Blume— (I snuck this book off my mother’s bedside table and would read it on the sly in my [...]
Shifting Mud
I couldn’t have been more than ten, and we were reading short stories in my class at school. I don’t remember the name of the story, or who wrote it. All I know is that it affected me so deeply that I’m writing about it now, forty-five years later. It was about a boy that somehow got trapped in a sewer pipe. You know the ones you can [...]
Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops, and Contest
Calling For Calling for Online Workshop Presenters by a special interest Chapter of the Romance Writers of America, Outreach International Romance Writers (OIRW). This chapter is seeking proposals from interested workshop presenters for their 2010 and 2011 Educational Programs. The chapter is interested in fresh and interactive online classes [...]
If your man were a plant
Have you ever wondered about the similarities between plants and men? Probably not! Most sane people don’t. But me, when I’m not writing, I spend a lot of time in my garden – maybe too much -- and my thoughts? Well, they naturally veer in that direction. Spending hours upon hours working with plants -- my garden is over 2500 sq. ft [...]
Why on earth am I writing? asks Betty Bolte
I found myself contemplating what possesses me to write. I mean, there are so many other things I have to do that always seem to take precedence, whether I want them to or not. The recent issues in the publishing world, with ebooks, and the Google settlement, and the Harlequin vanity press launch, all combines to make me ponder why I am bothering [...]
CORRECTION TO JOYCE WELL’S blog dated January 29, 2010
CORRECTION, in Joyce's blog dated January 29, 2010 , WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE STUCK ON PLOTTING, Donald Maass should be credited as the author of WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL and the material quoted from it: "What is one thing that the protagonist would never do?" Blog contributor, Joyce Wells, apologizes for the mixup, and blames her faulty [...]
Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Contests and Workshops
RWA Workshops Central New York Romance Writers Presents: Warrior Writer by Bob Mayer. A workshop that focuses on educating writers how to be authors. Warrior Writer is a holistic approach encompassing goals, intent, environment, personality, change, courage, communication and leadership that gives the writer a road map to become a successful [...]
Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops and Contests
RWA Chapter Contests The Central Ohio Fiction Writers' Ignite the Flame Contest is designed to help you polish that critical scene so that it crackles with romantic energy! Submit 15 pages of when h/h first meet or reunion meet scene and one page optional unjudged set-up. Electronic submissions and paypal available as well as traditional [...]
Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops and Contests
RWA Chapter Contests The deadline to enter the Greater Detroit RWA’s Between the Sheets contest for unpublished writers is February 14. Show off your characters’ bedroom skills by entering a 10-page love scene. Final judges: Patience Smith, Harlequin; Leah Hultenshmidt, Dorchester; Melissa Jeglinski, Knight Agency. Website 2010 River [...]
