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New Online Workshop

Posted in Workshops on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Monday the “Storytelling Techniques” for writers online workshop starts for NEORWA — that’s North East Ohio Romance Writers of America for the acryonym challenged (and boy is that a mouthfull).

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Storytelling Workshop

Posted in Workshops on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The storytelling thoughts have turned into an October workshop for Northeast Ohio RWA

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Online Workshops — too much ?

Posted in Workshops, tagged , on July 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’m due to give an online workshop with Colorado Romance Writers –

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Horse Sense

Posted in Articles, tagged , on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Back a few years ago, I wrote this article for RWA’s Beau Monde’s newsletter. Since horse information doesn’t really go out of date, here it is again, for folks who need to write about horses. Somewhat edited.

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What can be taught?

Posted in Workshops on May 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Just finished up an online workshop — it’s like teaching with a paper bag over your head.

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April Online Workshop

Posted in Workshops, writing, tagged , on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The interesting thing about this workshop is that most folks get how to “tell” a story, but don’t get that good “telling” takes as much work to craft beautiful prose as does good “showing” (or action). In fact, I sometimes think a beautiful narrative passage is even more work.

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Show & Tell Workshop

Posted in Other Things, tagged , on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

But I’ve already lined up a few for next year, and I’m actually excited.
The first one off is a “Show and Tell” workshop Jan. 5th thru the 16th for the Northeast Ohio Chapter of RWA.

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Because it’s not always about the writing — an etymology of titles

Posted in Articles, tagged on November 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »

This article first appeared in the Beau Monde’s newsletter, The Regency Reader, and since it sort of came up again, and since sometimes the writing is more about the research, here’s the information posted.
An Etymology of Titles
 
We tend to think of dukes and viscounts as having always been in the British nobility. In fact, these [...]

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Live Dangerous — read a Banned Book

Posted in Other Things, tagged on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s Banned Book week, and at least in the US we do mostly silly bans–we haven’t gotten to the point of throwing writers in Jail (yet). Amnesty International has a list of those who have had not just their words banned, but their lives. There’s also an excellent post on why this week matters over at Everybodyslibraries.com with a good [...]

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Other Past Events

Posted in Other Things, tagged on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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, Irvine CA – “Using the [...]

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