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Other Past Events

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The Regency Academe, “Breaking in with A Regency” an online class on writing and research Los Angeles Romance Authors Speaking “The Black Moment” Monterey Bay RWA Chapter,  “From Unpublished to Multi-published in One Year.” OCC Workshop,  “The Golden Heart–should you enter?” Beau Monde Regency Conference, “Horse Sense for Your Regency Characters” The Learning Tree University, [...]

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Workshops 2004

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October 2004 – OCCRWA Online Workshop – The Selling Synopsis October 2004 Los Angles County Library Romance Workshop – Speaking with Jill Marie Landis, Susan Squires, Jackie Diamond, Linda O. Johnston, Linda McLaughlin. September 2004 Authors Talk – Barnes & Noble, Valenca August 2004  Ask An Author OCCRWA Chapter Meeting

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Workshops 2005

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October 12 to November 8 2005 – OCCRWA Online Class – “The Selling Synopsis” July 7 – September 7, 2005 – UCLA Online Extension Class – “Chick Lit and Her Sisters: Writing Marketable Romance Novels” July 27, 2005 – Beau Monde Conference, Reno, Nevada – “Historical Characters in Fiction” May 2 – 31, 2005 – [...]

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Workshops 2007

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Workshops given in 2007 (2008 was a regeneration year)… October 2007 – Outreach International Romance Writers – Show and Tell Workshop May 2007 – POV: It’s More Than a Point of View April 2007 – Workshop: Sell that Book February 2007 – The Selling Synopsis – Earthlycharms.com

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Words on Workshops Given

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Because praise is always nice, and self-promotion is vital…. Words on Shannon’s Workshops– “I did revamp the entire thing according to this workshop and guess what? I got a request for a full (manuscript) off of my synopsis! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!”   Kim Daniel — Selling Synopsis Workshop “I’ve finaled in the [...]

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Synopsis Checklist

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This has been developed from various workshops, tip sheets and classes taken — please feel free to take this, add, delete and create your own checklist.

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Courting the Muse

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Then, rising with Aurora’s light,
The Muse invoked, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine,
Enlarge, diminish, interline.
Swift, On Poetry

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Writing Muscles

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Would you like to write ten pages a day–or more? Not ten throw away pages. Ten productive pages. Or even twenty! At this point, you’re probably thinking, “Yeah, and I’d like to lose five pounds, a few years and win the Pulitzer, too.” But fast writing is not a gimmick–there are some tips than can make any writer more productive.

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Plotting from Character

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We’ve all read it (and written it)–that scene where the heroine does something really stupid because the plot needs her to be at risk. Or what about that moment when you can’t think what happens next–say, right after the heroine and hero make love for the first time–and all you can come up with is them bickering over a misunderstanding because you need conflict.

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Moving Day(s)

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My mother passed on this week. Which may seem to have nothing to do with my shifiting my web from a site to a blog, but it’s all related.

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