by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 6, 2020 | Classes and Workshops, Events
It’s Time to Celebrate You, Your Writing Community, and Your Spectacular Talent!
Everyone is invited to enjoy the festivities and perhaps walk away with an awesome reading list or even do a little holiday shopping. Even if you don’t have anything ready to share, come join in on the fun.
Do you have a book, poem, news article, essay, script, play, song or some other literary work that you want to read to the group?
Or maybe you want to practice what it would be like on a mini-book tour? Here’s your opportunity to present you and your works in a friendly, supportive space.
The amount of time each member gets to showcase will depend upon how many people sign up by November 15. (For now estimate five minutes.) You can feature more than one work, but you’ll have the same time limit as everyone else. We’ll do Q&A if we have time. So grab a beverage of choice and celebrate with us on Zoom as we see & hear the wonders that Marin branch members have created.
Sign Up to Present by Thursday, December 3 at Noon.
Send us an email at marincwc@gmail.com, with your name, what work(s) you plan to present, and when they were published or completed. The work need not be published or even for sale to showcase it. Writers with works completed since January 2019 will be showcased first, but we expect everyone to have an opportunity to showcase.
Register to attend the showcase by December 5 at cwcmarin.com/december for the Zoom link.
by CWC Marin administrator | Oct 14, 2020 | Craft, Events
Successful travel writing transports readers to another time and place. Join Us November 15 to learn the secrets of helping your readers see, hear, smell, and taste locations that leap off the page and ignite the imagination. Whether you’re writing nonfiction (memoir, true-adventure, and travelogue) or fiction (historical, thriller, and literary), this workshop will help your settings come alive.
Susan Spann is the award-winning, bestselling author of CLIMB (Prometheus Books, 2020), a narrative nonfiction chronicle of her quest to overcome cancer, break free from fear, and climb 100 Japanese mountains in a single year, as well as the Hiro Hattori novels, a historical mystery series featuring the ongoing adventures of master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo. She is also the author of numerous travel articles and a travel and photography blog. Susan currently lives in Tokyo, and will be presenting live from Tokyo via Zoom.
by CWC Marin administrator | Oct 5, 2020 | Classes and Workshops, Events
In this entertaining and interactive class (at least as interactive as zoom allows!), Kerry Schafer will share her secrets for using elements of psychology and Myers-Briggs Personality Typing to create characters so lifelike readers feel like they could sit down with them for a cup of coffee — or follow them off on an adventure!
Kerry (who also writes as Kerry Anne King) is a Washington Post and Amazon charts bestselling author who writes quirky paranormal mysteries and compelling and transformational stories about family and personal growth.
Kerry has been chosen as the 2020 Writer of the Year by the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Association. Her most recent novel, Everything You Are, is a finalist in the Nancy Pearl Awards hosted by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. In addition to writing, she is enthusiastic about encouraging and supporting other writers and is the host of Tell Me Your Secrets, a videocast/podcast featuring lively, informal interviews with authors and other people involved in bringing books into the world. She also loves speaking and teaching on a variety of writing related topics.
When not absorbed in creative pursuits, you’ll find Kerry Anne hanging out with her real-life Viking on their little piece of heaven in rural northeastern Washington. www.writeattheedge.com
Register at cwcmarin.com/october.
by CWC Marin administrator | Sep 10, 2020 | Events
Saturday, September 19, 1:00 – 2:30 pm Online
Redwood Writers presents
Submit to Indie Lit! with Lise Quintana
If you’re still new to submitting, smaller independent literary journals are a great place to break in—most of them are starving for great content. Learn how to find the right lit journal for your work, and how to maximize your chances for success using a submission management program.
Lise Quintana’s work can be found in SLAB, Red Fez, Drunk Monkeys, Instant Magazine, The Rambler, and Role Reboot, among others. She headed Zoetic Press, which produced the journal NonBinary Review and the Viable chapbook series. She is the former editor in chief of Lunch Ticket, the literary journal of Antioch Universtiy Los Angeles’s MFA program. She’s the inventor of the Lithomobilus ereader, a program for creating and reading nonlinear literature. She is active with the Bay Area Book Festival, Litquake, and National Novel Writing Month. Her latest effort is a podcast about weight-related issues called Living Large in America.
LiseQuintana.com
To Register (Become a Marin Member first for member discount): https://redwoodwriters.org/meetings/
by CWC Marin administrator | Jun 3, 2020 | Classes and Workshops, Events
Here is the Zoom link for Sunday’s presentation:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86249626335?pwd=aCt2OHRjSitoZ0Q0NnFKT1RnOWxDQT09
Password: 075913
Here are three handouts:
When you write a memoir, you draw layers of challenge and skill: telling your story, having it reach the hearts of others, and managing the labyrinth of doubts and fears about consequences of revealing your personal truths.
Several key elements unlock your story: finding the structure, writing scenes, managing your inner critic, and locating the main growth points in your story. By weaving truth and craft, you create new insights for yourself and the arc of your story will lead to meaningful takeaways for your readers.
In this session you will learn:
- How to discover the major moments that create the theme of your memoir — turning points.
- How to weave through time — scenes and flashback.
- The power of writing scene to create insight in the writer and the reader.
- Truth—and the inner and outer critics—writing about family.
- Ways to focus deeply into your story and allow it to have its own path.
The journey of writing a memoir offers you an opportunity to stand in the shoes of who you were in past while you also explore your story through the eyes of yourself now. Learning to writing strong scenes is an important skill that allows you to dip into the stream of time, to taste and know and feel that time and bring the reader into that world.
RSVP and we’ll send you the link before the presentation.
by CWC Marin administrator | Feb 8, 2020 | Classes and Workshops, Events
If you’re thinking about self-publishing, there’s a lot of learn and no better person to learn from than Ruth Schwartz, book midwife and self-publishing consultant. She’ll be presenting on February 23 at 2 pm.
Ruth will explain the basics of how to get the most self-publishing juice from using KDP and IngramSpark efficiently and in the right order, including
- How to set your book up on KDP, and why to do your paperback first.
- How KDP makes it easy to add your Kindle edition once the paperback is set up.
- How to order proofs from KDP.
- Why to set up your book with IngramSpark — and why you may not need to bother.
- How to avoid paying any fees to IngramSpark.
Ruth Schwartz brings more than 40 years of book publishing, design and printing industry experience to every author’s project and has worked on over 120 independently-published books since 2012. She works with authors to turn finished manuscripts into finished books, complete with professional cover design, interior layout, and ebook editions — all up online and available for sale.
