I apologize for being so late in posting this information. I fell at work recently and suffered a mild concussion. But I’m okay now.
Marcia Moston
We’ll be meeting tomorrow, Saturday, January 21st in the conference room of the Downtown Greenville Airport from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Our speaker will be Marcia Moston, [...]
A Facebook post from a friend of mine in Houston, Thelma Zirkelbach:
Hi, Facebook friends, I’m guest editing a book on widowhood with Silver Boomer Books, so this is a call for submissions. Either prose or poetry on some aspect of widowhood will do. Check out www.silverboomerbooks.com for more information.
Silver Boomer Books
www.silverboomerbooks.com
“We didn’t mean to [...]
Ann Ross, beloved author of the Miss Julia series, will be speaking at our next AnAuthor World Community meeting this Saturday.
1) Why did you decide to be a writer?
There was never a point at which I decided to write; I just always thought I would.
2) How did you learn to write?
I’m [...]
Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 19th. That’s our next AnAuthor World Community meeting!
Our speaker will be Ann Ross, author of the Miss Julia series. She’ll be discussing “How I Get My Ideas” and using examples from her books. I love talks like this, because I’m always amazed at the origin [...]
Lynette EasonMeet Lynette Eason, our speaker for tomorrow’s AnAuthor World Community meeting! She’ll be talking on “How to Go from Bad to Worse and Make Your Readers Beg for More.” AAW Community will meet tomorrow, Saturday, October 15th from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the conference room at the Downtown Greenville Airport (100 [...]
So, instead of having a conference, we’re having our regular monthly meeting this Saturday, October 15th, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the conference room of the Downtown Greenville Airport (100 Tower Drive).
Lynette Eason, Author of 16 booksLynette Eason, author of 14 books, will be our speaker. She grew up in Greenville, SC, graduated from the [...]
We are canceling the conference. We just didn’t have enough attendees to meet our expenses. I know that people often wait until the last couple of weeks to sign up, but we have decided not to take that chance. I want you to know how much I appreciated all the hard work [...]
(Thanks to Melinda Brown Long. This is from her Facebook post.)
TEEN TRACK: LET THE STORIES BEGIN!
In the first AM Session we will:
* Have fun. Explore. Improvise.
* Learn how to “Show, Don’t tell!” and how to learn from literature.
* Learn about the Writing-Revising Cycle.
* Exercise “Muscle Words.”
* Mine our lives for feelings and experiences which will inform our stories.
Second AM Session:
* Identify great characters. Learn [...]
Carol Baldwin is a freelance writer in Charlotte, NC; her most recent book is Teaching the Story: Fiction Writing in Grades 4-8 (Maupin House, 2008). She has presented at library, writing, and reading conferences; taught at her local community college; and coordinated the Charlotte critique SCBWI group for more than 15 years. She co-authors Talking [...]