‘Welcome to RWA-WF’ Archives
Welcome from VP-Programming, Maggie Marr
This month is our first RWA-WF workshop: Direct Your Book! Theatrical Techniques to a Blockbuster Novel taught by award winning author Leanna Renee Hieber. I am excited to participate in this workshop. One of the gifts of writing is that there is always something to learn. And we as writers are life-long learners. Each time we sit at the [...]
Welcome from RWA-WF Treasurer Barbara Burnham
Act Before You Leap Here’s some advice from a somewhat-newbie romance writer: There’s a lot to learn about writing than just sitting in front of a computer and putting fingers to keyboard. Yes, it is important to write every day, hone your craft and read within your genre every day. But, there’s one crucial thing I think aspiring writers [...]
Welcome from VP-Communications, Michelle Diener
As one of the architects of this website, and the person who helps keep it running smoothly, I have to say how much I love the varied articles to be found here. If you stumble upon the RWA-WF website with no idea of what women's fiction means as a genre, you won't be in the dark for long. We are starting a new year, and we are a very new [...]
Welcome from RWA-WF Secretary Susan Crandall
In RWA chapter-sponsored contests I repeatedly received comments like, “this was a fantastic read, but all of the other stuff took away from the romance.” Well yeah, I thought, I’m not writing pure romance. Sure there is a romance in it, but that was only one aspect of my heroine’s journey. The more I studied, the more I decided my [...]
Welcome from the new RWA-WF President, Therese Walsh
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. - Amelia Earhart I wrote a blog post sometime in early summer of 2009, in which I complained a little. (I know, not a good-karma thing.) I complained that there wasn’t a place for me within RWA, even though it’d been the only writers’ organization I’d [...]
Welcome to RWA-WF from Barbara Samuel O’Neal
Welcome to the Women's Fiction Chapter of Romance Writers of America! We are so pleased to finally be creating this networking and support group for writers who are fascinated by the various ways a romantic novel can explore the issues, challenges, and stages of a woman's life. We are all romantics at heart, and as such, many of us are or have [...]
