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Author: Ace Baker
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SIWC Countdown: 5 days: 5 kudos, gold stars, and TYs!
5 Days Away: 5 People to say TY to at SIWC! 5 days away–can you believe it? It’s going to get crazy really fast, really soon! And at SIWC, it can get crazy too–rushing off to pitches, blue pencils, sessions, trying to take in all you’re being taught, and going from one thing to the…
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SIWC Countdown: 6 Days: Find a Muse to Light Your Fuse!
6 Days Away: Find a Muse to Light Your Fuse! This is not your average keynote. No PhD dissertations here. No academic hoohah. At SIWC, a keynote address is motivation and inspiration, pure and simple, like Robert Dugoni’s now-famous “This Day We Write!” speech, which had the SIWC crowd take up arms against blank pages…
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SIWC Countdown: 7 days: 7 reasons to consider doing a blue pencil session!
7 DAYS: 7 Reasons to Consider Blue Pencil ! Seven days…I know, it sounds like a certain horror movie: But it’s not bad at all–and neither is a blue pencil editing session. There is much to be gained from putting a few pages of your work into the hands of another writer or editor. Here…
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Step 7 of Nanowrimo Planning: Your Shopping List!
STEP SEVEN: YOUR SHOPPING LIST If people have quite a few groceries to buy, they make a shopping list. Now, you don’t have “a few things” to do with your novel—you’re going to be filling hundreds of pages. You make a shopping list to make sure you have enough food and don’t forget anything.…
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SIWC Countdown: 8 days? 8 Ways to Prepare for the Writing Conference!
8 Days: 8 Ways to Prepare for SIWC 1. Read bios of your favourite agents, editors and writers. 2. Practice your pitches. 3. Decide which works to blue pencil. 4. Check the schedules for workshops that interest you. 5. Select clothing for three days—you don’t want to be thinking about that kind of thing during…
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SIWC Countdown: 9 days? 9 Ways…to find opportunities at SIWC!
Time is ticking…only 9 days until the main conference begins…here’s what to expect: 9 OPPORTUNITIES YOU’LL FIND AT SIWC 1. Education—attend workshops where writers and others teach you their craft. 2. Inspiration—keynote speakers who will light your fire! 3. Sustenance—great food, and drink, and vendors to fulfill your needs. 4. Treasures—autographs from your favourite…
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Step 6 of Nanowrimo Planning: Time to Get Real!
STEP SIX: TIME TO … Build and expand, build and expand . . . . Remember those five sentences you wrote in step two that you made into five paragraphs in step five? Well, we’re going to expand each of those to a page each…with a twist. We’re going to write what…
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SIWC Countdown: 10+ Agents to pitch to at the Surrey International Writers Conference!
10 DAYS UNTIL SIWC The countdown is on! 10 days from now, I’ll be at SIWC—the Surrey International Writers Conference—along with about 800 other writers. That means I’ll be going crazy with anticipation until then. One way for me to cope is to do a top ten for you, starting with… 10+ AGENTS who are…
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Step 5 of Nanowrimo Planning: Step Two, Pumped Up!
STEP FIVE: STEP TWO, PUMPED UP! Now that you know your characters better, and you know your plot a bit better, it’s time to look back for a moment and build on step two. You know more now, so this shouldn’t be tough, but here’s what step five involves: In step two, you…
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Step 4 of Nanowrimo Planning: The Handshake
STEP FOUR: THE HANDSHAKE In steps one and two, you thought about story. In step three, you thought about characters. It’s now time for step four, and that means. . . Character, story. Story, character. Now say “Hello.” That’s right—it’s time for your story and character to meet. It’s time to do character…