by CWC Marin administrator | Feb 15, 2013 | Events
Why Writers Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Social Media
Chris Durham
Digital Development – Uhuru Network, LLC
AKA Social Media Educator
June 23, 2013
Book Passage, Corte Madera
There a number of different ways to grow your brand and it can be overwhelming with all the different tools and resources available. But there is one critical tool, Social Media, which you can’t afford to overlook.
You Will Learn:
- Social Media Foundation – What you need to know as writers.
- How many social networks should you be on
- Top 5 Social Media Marketing Tips
- It doesn’t take much to become impressive
- The importance of social networking in writing industry
- Action Steps
The Marin branch of the California Writers Club meets monthly at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA except July, August and December, on the 4th Sunday of the month, unless a holiday. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Meetings may feature a guest speaker, a workshop or a panel discussion along with networking, encouragement and writing news.
$5 members; $10 nonmembers
All are welcome.
by CWC Marin administrator | Jan 1, 2013 | Quotes
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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“There is no use trying,” said Alice, “One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen.
“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. Never doubt that a small band of committed people can change the world. Indeed, nothing else ever has.
Margaret Mead
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream…
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
Yes we can.
President Barack Obama
The difference between motivation and inspiration: Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don’t let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse – when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you’re no longer in charge, that there’s a driving force inside you that can’t be stopped. Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source.
Wayne Dyer
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
Joseph Campbell
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
The old navigational charts do not serve us. We can no longer refuse to know our way around our own territory. We have to find our way – the way that is in our bones and in our devotion to each other within our collaborating wisdom.
Alexandra Merrill
Art thou lunatics?
Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. ACT IV Scene 1
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
Shakespeare, The Tempest. ACT I Scene 2
Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. ACT V Scene 1
This above all: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act 1. Scene III
A woman is like a teabag; you don’t know how strong it is until it gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
George Eliot
by CWC Marin administrator | Dec 13, 2012 | Contests, Events
The Marin branch of the California Writers Club is delighted to announce the winners of the
Write Across the Golden Gate
2012 Fiction and Nonfiction prose contest
First Place(s) and Honorable Mentions
We appreciate the many submissions we received from as far away as Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The quality of the writing was first-rate and we encourage all to maintain this high quality, keep writing, and keep submitting.
Please join us in thanking our Judges for their commitment, and diligence.
Peg Alford Pursell
Charlotte Robin Cook
Priscilla Royal
Olga Zilberbourg
Barbara Truax, lead judge
Mary Jane Essex, screening judge
If you would like to be notified of future contests, please eMail: contests@JoHaraf.com
Contest Winners: 2012
FICTION
Winner
Reynold Junker, The Accordionist and the Sparrow
Honorable Mentions
Kasey Arnold-Ince, Dissolution
Patricia Morin, Passages
Kasey Arnold-Ince, Salt & Pepper
NONFICTION
Winner
Gail Stockwell, The Old Man and His Pies
Honorable Mentions
Susan Keller, A Turn in the Road: A Memoir
Delia Reid, Illuminations
Paula Nixon, The Life and Death of F521
by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 1, 2012 | Events
Rules Are Made To Be Broken
(But Which Ones, and When?)
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Three authors share their experiences and answer your questions about breaking writing and publishing “rules” and blazing one’s own unique writing path.
Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, writing consultant, and author of four books. Her latest, Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention (Hyperion Voice), combines her personal account of life with a high-spirited 
child with a journalist’s overview of the controversies surrounding Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and how best to manage it.
Ellison has written widely on recent developments with ADHD for national media including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her previous books are The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes You Smarter, The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, and Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines. Her website is www.katherineellison.com
Malinda Lowas born in China and moved to the United States as a child. Ash, her first novel, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the Lambda Literary Award for Children’s/Young Adult, and was a Kirkus 2009 Best Book for Children and Teens. Her second novel, Huntress, was published in 2011.
Formerly, Lo was an entertainment reporter, and was awarded the 2006 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Journalism by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and has master’s degrees from Harvard and Stanford Universities. Her website is www.malindalo.com
Ellen Sussman is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, French Lessons, and the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, On a Night Like This. She is the editor of two anthologies, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a SF Chronicle bestseller, and Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex.
Sussman has taught at Pepperdine, UCLA and Rutgers. She currently teaches through Stanford Continuing Studies and in private classes. Her website is www.ellensussman.com
by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 1, 2012 | Events
“From Blog To Book”
November 18, 2012
How do you create and write a blog that will capture the attention of book agents and publishers? Susan Sachs Lipman takes you through the steps, from concept and proposal through published book.
Susan Sachs Lipman is the author of Fed Up with Frenzy: Slow Parenting in a Fast-Moving World, which grew out of her award-winning blog, Slow Family Online.
She writes for the Christian Science Monitor’s Modern Parenthood blog, and is the Social Media Director for the international Children & Nature Network.
The Marin branch of the California Writers Club meets monthly at Book Passage, except July, August and December, on the 4th Sunday of the month, unless a holiday. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Meeting may feature a guest speaker, a workshop or a panel discussion along with networking, encouragement and writing news.
All are welcome.
There a number of different ways to grow your brand and it can be overwhelming with all the different tools and resources available. But there is one critical tool, Social Media, which you can’t afford to overlook.
