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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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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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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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Guest post by Anastasia Stratu: UNHAPPY ENDINGS: Will Amazon Control Our Reading?
Today, I have a guest post for you from a writer who creates technofantasy worlds and also blogs about social media and marketing. In other words, a right-brainer AND a left-brainer! Meet Anastasia Stratu: Unhappy Endings – Will Amazon Control Our Reading? by Anastasia Stratu This article by Chris Abouzeid caused quite a stir in my…
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Putting myself out there…writing goals for Oct 2014 to Oct 2015!
Ok, a bit of a heart to heart post today, from one writer to another. Yesterday, I wrote about the benefits of journaling and setting writing goals. Today, I’ll show you what I mean by that. Here are my writing goals for my upcoming writing year: 1. Find a GOOD agent. 2. Write a new…
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7 Days until SIWC… 7 Writer Sites You’ll Want to Visit!
7 days until the main SIWC conference begins…so here are 7 sites where you can “touch gloves” and hang out with other writers and resources that can help you churn words… www.siwc.ca http://pnwa.org/ http://www.placesforwriters.com/ http://www.pw.org/ http://www.newpages.com/ http://www.writersdigest.com/ http://www.writermag.com/