by CWC Marin administrator | Feb 10, 2014 | Classes and Workshops, Events
2014 SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE
and WRITING INTENSIVE CLASSES
February 13th-17th
Celebration of Craft, Commerce and Community for Writers
11th Annual Event
The InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel
Featuring:
- Julie Kagawa, USA Today & NY Times bestselling author of The Iron Fey series
- NoViolet Bulawayo, Caine Award winner and author of We Need New Names
- Chitra Divakaruni, international bestselling author of The Mistress of Spices
- Barry Eisler, author of the bestselling Rain and Treven series
- Dan Millman, of Peaceful Warrior fame and The Creative Compass
- Rhys Bowen, Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of the Molly Murphy series
Take your writing career to new levels. Immerse yourself in the quality inter- action with 100+ literary agents, editors, publishers and bestselling authors. Exhibit hall, bookstore and a special evening presentation with Julie Kagawa will be open to the public.
The SFWC Pre/Post Event Classes are open to non-attendees. Get details—including a full presenters list and online registration and opt-in for the SFWC Newsletter at www.SFWriters.org.
by CWC Marin administrator | Jan 29, 2014 | Events
Plarachterization
The Intersection of Plot and Character
Sunday, February 23, 2014, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Passage – 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera
Joshua Mohr
Plarachterization is a strategy that will help any writer. The best plots aren’t controlled by an authorial presence but spring from the characters themselves. The more we program ourselves to think of it in this way — that our protagonists are sovereign beings with independent consciousnesses from our own — the better prepared we are to traverse “plarachterization.” Will also includes characters’ decision making, the causality between plot points, and how to include specific tactics for constructing a present action and how to fold back-story into it.
Joshua Mohr is the author of four award-winning novels: Damascus, Some Things that Meant the World to Me, Termite Parade, and his latest – Fight Song, for which the Huffington Post called him “A brilliant and skilled story teller…”
He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at USF.
www.joshuamohr.net
California Writers Club is a nonprofit 501(c)3 educational corporation. CWC Marin events are open to the public for a $10 non-member charge per meeting. The charge for CWC members is $5 per meeting. Learn more about this month’s speakers, future events, or how to join CWC Marin at http://www.cwcmarinwriters.com.
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
