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Nov.27.2012 Only 5 weeks left to apply for the inaugural year of Lit Camp! Lit Camp is the Bay Area's first juried writers' conference. It's a joint venture between two of San Francisco's most respected literary organizations - Litquake and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto - and will feature representatives from all the city's top literary players, including...	Apr.25.2012 Can writing the novel be taught? "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whether or not someone else can teach you how to write a novel has been debated. The answer usually involves whether the question is asked by a teacher or a struggling, beginning writer. The teacher will say, yes, I can teach you...
Apr.11.2012 The Most Memorable Conference You never forget your first conference. I don’t mean the first writers conference that you “go” to. I mean the first conference where one of the organizers asks you to actually stand up and talk to an audience. There are a lot of reasons I will never forget that “first” conference as a...	Jan.23.2012 Odyssey Writing Workshop Hi. If you write fantasy, science fiction, or horror, you might be interested in the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Odyssey is an intensive program that combines in-depth lectures, detailed feedback, and individual guidance. It's widely considered one of the best programs in the...
Jan.07.2012 I'm moderating! Book collaboration basics at 2012 ASJA conference Are you a ghostwriter or collaborator? Would you like to be? Book collaboration is probably my greatest expertise, and I'm totally tickled to be moderating a panel where I can spill all my secrets at the American Society of Journalists and Authors annual writers conference next April in New York...	Nov.02.2010 Master’s Class: Building Credible Worlds/Making Setting Work for Your Story I’ll be teaching a new class at the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival (SASfest)in New Orleans, May 12-15th, 2011: “Building Credible Worlds/Making Setting Work for Your Story. Here's what I'll be teaching: Setting is not simple backdrop, like a green screen on which on film is shot. Setting in...
Sep.05.2010 Dispatches from the Road: Bread Loaf and Longing for the “Real” Bread Loaf is considered one of the top writing conferences in the country, if not the world, isolated as it is in Vermont’s hills and farm land without cell phone reception but plenty of talk. I’ve been lucky to attend four times, first as a paying contributor in my twenties, then as one of the...	Nov.27.2009 7 Nonfiction Book Marketing Traps to Avoid The year I won the San Francisco Writer’s Conference pitch conference, I had just gained some really valuable information in a morning session. (I mentioned this in an earlier Write Nonfiction in November post.) The session was taught by writing-career-coach Teresa LeYung Ryan and public relations...