Eastlake, CO 80614-0448
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P.O. Box 448 Eastlake, CO 80614-0448 |
CRW meets the second Saturday of every month
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January 10, 2009 ~ Renee Knowles will be presenting - Career Boot Camp: Carving out your career pathWORKSHOP PROPOSAL: Do you feel like your career is going in the right direction? Have you taken the correct steps to publication? Are you working smart and living up to your fullest potential? Start out the New Year with a bang! This boot camp will cover three essential steps to a successful writing career: prepare, produce, and publication.Renee will show you how to prepare by helping you set some serious goals and defining your objectives for the coming year. You will outline where you want to go and dig deep to create a path to get there. The second part will cover how to produce more by managing your time better and working smart, using Renee’s PLOT system (prepare, lay out, organize, and track). You will head down the road to publication by learning how to study the markets and trends to increase your ability of making a sale. Also, Renee will share some of what she looks for in a submission as an acquiring editor. This workshop is for anyone looking to get serious about their careers in the new year. Are you ready to take your writing career to the next level? BOOK TALK: Elaine Levine will be chatting about her debut novel, RACHEL AND THE HIRED GUN. February 14, 2009 ~ Lost in the Contest Mill?Ever receive contest feedback from judges that you couldn't interpret? Are you considering becoming a contest judge and want some pointers about how to make that experience beneficial for you and the contest entrants you're judging? Then please join CRW this month as we have a hands-on workshop focusing on contests for unpublished writers. Bring your judged work to share in small groups.BOOK TALK: Melissa Mayhue will chat about her latest release, A HIGHLANDER OF HER OWN. March 14, 2009 ~ Robin Owens will be presenting a workshop on Interviewing Your Characters!Have you ever had your critique group stare at you and say, "Yes, but what does she see in him?" Or, "There are too many food scenes in this book, you should set it somewhere else, with them doing something else...like sports...what does she do for fun?" Or just plain gotten stuck because you didn't know enough about your character?There are plenty of ways to "make" characters using astrology and enneagrams, and those can be insightful. But why don't you talk to your character yourself...interview them and let them tell you what's going on. Robin will show a couple of techniques to do this, and bring questions that have worked for her in opening her characters up. For a preview you can check here: Character Interviews Interview with Ailim Silverfir Elder BOOK TALK: Robin Owens will chat about her latest release ECHOES IN THE DARK. APRIL 11, 2009 ~ THE HEART OF THE MATTER: YOUR THEME AND YOU("You Are What You Watch" for romance authors) explores what theme is and why it's the single most essential building block for any writing, fiction or non-fiction. Writers learn how the themes they are attracted to as romance-lovers and -writers shape their storytelling choices, how genre dictates theme, and how each writer has their own personal romantic theme – and just what it is!TRAI CARTWRIGHT is a writer, producer and professional writing coach and teacher. She has consulted on thousands of books and scripts, produced three independent films and worked as a feature film and online entertainment creative executive for companies like HBO, Prelude Pictures, Paramount and Leonardo DiCaprio's Birken Productions. Trai has spoken nationally at writers conferences and conducted workshops across the Front Range, covering fiction, screenwriting and non-fiction subjects. She is currently the editor for a collection of very talented novelists and screenwriters, the Associate Artistic Director for Bas Bleu Theater, Sales Manager for Bailiwick Press, and the producer behind the Tom Kechter Teen Stand-Up Comedy Project and the Explorati Teen Writers Boot Camp. www.craftwrite.com MAY ~ 2009 Romancing The Rockies ConferenceJoin the members of Colorado Romance Writers as we kick-off our biennial conference with an exciting dinner featuring special guest authors, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love!New this year! Colorado Romance Writers is offering guests their choice -- attend just the keynote dinner or come for the keynote dinner and the full conference! WHEN: Friday, May 1st & Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 WHERE: Radisson Graystone Castle, 83 E. 120th Ave., Denver, CO 80233 FEE: $189 CRW members/$199 non-members (includes Keynote Dinner, Continental Breakfast, Luncheon) Early Bird rate if registered by April 15th. After that rates increase to $199/209 Click HERE for more June 13, 2009 - Charles Kaine, owner of The Reader's Cove BookstoreCharles Kaine, owner of The Reader's Cove Bookstore, will be talking about what happens during the book printing process and how we, as authors, can work with local bookstores.JULY 11, 2009 - Michael HaugeWriters of Colorado,
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