Showing posts with label revising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revising. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

FANTASTIC NEW WRITING CLASSES

I've just enrolled in three new fantastic writing workshops on Savvy Authors... it's only day two and I'm already blown away by what's going to be covered in each of these classes!

Formatting Fundamentals: shaping up your manuscript for publication
with Pat Hauldren
  
Creating Creepy Characters: Peopling Your Storyworld with the Inhuman, Superhuman and Supernatural with Jessa Slade

AND

Witchcraft for the Paranormal Author with Deborah Blake (who is not only an author but a High Priestess with her own Coven) talk about an authority on the subject!

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Quick Brown Fox- A Very Cool Writing Workshop

I just finished a one day workshop with Brian Henry, former editor, writer and current writing teacher in Toronto. It was great! For lack of a more colorfully descriptive word. (and yes, I get the irony!) The title was Writing And Editing....totally up my alley being over 3/4 of the way through my second revisions. we had the opportunity to do some stream of thought writing; something I usually balk at because the subject matter is usually uninteresting enough it's reminiscent of those dreaded English class assignments in school. But we used this fortune cookie technique which by the end of it had stimulated 4 full pages of writing in half an hour and enough idea seedlings to make it another must write book.

Now, if I can just get through the revision and move on to write books 2 & 3....maybe I'll have to write something else concurrently, because patience is SO not one of my virtues. How about you? Do you write several things simultaneously or are you a monogamous to your story until finished before beginning a new one???