Gina Ardito: Stealing from Hollywood Gain a deeper understanding of your characters using method acting. By employing the same ideas used by some of the world’s greatest actors and actresses, you’ll learn how to write characters your readers want to know, love, and root for! Gina Ardito is the award-winning author of more than twenty … Read moreNext Meeting: June 1, 2019
Writers’ Roundtable “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt, economist Join Liberty Blake for an afternoon of exploration. We will discuss what creativity is, how we get in touch with our creative side (or Muses), and participate in writing activities to help everyone get up close and personal … Read moreMeeting: May 4, 2019
Speaker: Tamsen Parker Writing Sex that Will Grab Your Readers with Intent and Emotion. Sex scenes. Love them or hate them, if you’re publishing at the spicier end of the romance spectrum, you’ve got to know how to write them. And we all know that when it comes to writing sex, romance writers rule. We … Read moreMeeting: April 6, 2019
PLEASE NOTE: Our March meeting will be held in Cumberland Library’s Hayden Center, Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 (our usual location). It Takes a Village Most have heard the saying, It takes a village. This is true in real life and also in the books we love to read. While many writers spend countless hours (days, weeks!) developing … Read moreMeeting: March 2, 2019
Retreat Cancellation Policy If a registered participant is unable to attend for any reason they may substitute, by arrangement with RIRW, someone else to attend in their place. The registered participant must send a written notice of a substitute at least 14 days prior to retreat (closer to the date of the retreat is solely at the … Read moreRetreat Cancellation Policy