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Deflating and Energizing on Day 3 of SIWC !
Highlights from Day 3 of SIWC ! Okay, so two full days of activity at a conference can take its toll. At the beginning of the third day, people came ambling into the ballroom looking a bit like… Monaghan‘s bacon trick did its job to get us all there (eventually), and then a hard-hitting keynote…
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Brain Purge on Day 2 of SIWC !
Highlights from Day 2 of SIWC ! Okay, so today at SIWC, I got just as bombarded by great information, amazing people and presenters, and surprising encounters as I did yesterday, maybe even more. But I found out the secret for dealing with it effectively. It’s called a … More about that later… here are…
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SIWC Countdown: 1 day: And there’s only one…
1 Day Away: The Power of ONE The power of ONE…. There is ONE day until we’re at SIWC–it’s crazy, and it’s come faster than expected. But ONE is all about being… …and whether it’s your first time at SIWC or your fifteenth, you’ll soon learn that there is only one Kathy Chung, one…
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SIWC Countdown: 2 days: 2 ideas to keep in mind during the conference !
2 Days Away: 2 Ideas to Keep in Mind ! Okay, we are getting super close to conference time. The excitement is building and the nerves are jangling. There’s a good chance we get swept up in the three days and then, in the blink of an eye, it’s over, and we’re looking back wondering, What just…
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SIWC Countdown: 3 days: 3 editors to pitch to! Pass GO and Collect!
3 Days Away: 3 Editors to Pitch To! To me, pitching to editors and discovering they like your work is a double blessing. It’s like getting that card in Monopoly that tells you to advance to such and such a place and head on over directly past GO and collect! The first is editors work with MOUNTAINS of manuscripts in…
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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…