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Online Workshop Calendar
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December 2011
Workshop:
Make It Last! How to add Sexual Tension to your Manuscript No Matter What Genre
You Write
Presenter: Linda Conrad
Dates:
December 5-19, 2011
Fee:
$20 FRW member & $25 non FRW member
Best selling author Linda Conrad writes for Harlequin-Silhouette Books. Her
novels have been translated into sixteen languages and are sold in over
twenty-two countries!
Linda’s sensual characters and passionate stories have brought her numerous
awards and raves! Over the years her workshops for RWA chapters and conferences
have helped many writers learn new skills and techniques.
Growing up in South Florida, Linda made up stories and read everything she
could get her hands on. After college, she taught first grade in Miami and tried
to give the children as much love for the written word as she’d always felt.
When her own true-life hero came along and whisked her away to five cities in
seven years, Linda became a sales assistant, a quality control supervisor, a
ninety-unit apartment manager and finally a stockbroker and Certified Financial
Planner in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
When her mother suffered a disabling stroke, Linda moved to southern
California to be close. “Mom couldn’t focus well enough to read anymore. So I
began reading to her,” Linda recalls. “Eventually, my sister and I started
making up stories to keep her entertained. Mom remembered my high school writing
attempts. Before her death, she asked me to stick with story telling.”
Today Linda is back in south Florida, living with her husband by the sea
and telling the stories in her heart.
Visit Linda's website at
www.lindaconrad.com.
Pay Now with Paypal (please also be sure to
register for the course!):
January 2012
Workshop:
I
used to hate writing a synopsis, but not anymore
Presenter:
Susan Palmgoist
Dates:
January 2-27, 2012
Fee: $20 FRW member & $25 non FRW member
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Learn why a good synopsis is similar to a great job interview
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Learn why it’s a must have skill for every writer
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Learn what makes a good synopsis
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Learn what should always be included
- Learn what tense a synopsis should be written in and how it should be formatted
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Learn to write both a short and long synopsis
About Susan
Susan Palmquist is a freelance writer and author of six novels, four of which
are romances. She’s also a published short story writer who’s been published in
both the US and UK and two of her stories have recently appeared in anthologies.
Under her pen name, Vanessa Devereaux she writes erotic romances and erotica and
has published six novels/novellas. Her next book One Night With You will be a
June 2011 release .
She also writes a weekly money saving blog at called The Budget Smart Girl’s Guide to the
Universe. Susan is also a writing tutor for Writers’ News School in the UK.
While she
might not have sold everything she’s written, she’s never had an editor refuse
to read her work after seeing one of her synopsis. Her secret, she really loves
to write them and thinks it’s like creating a story in itself.
In her work
as a tutor she sees synopsis that while formatted right lack the I want to read
this story quality, necessary to make a sale. In this class she’ll show you how
to add the ‘wow’ factor.
For more
information about Susan, visit
www.susanpalmquist.com,
www.vanessadevereaux.com, and
www.budgetsmartgirl.com
Contact
information:
skpalmquist@gmail.com
Pay Now with Paypal (please also be sure to
register for the course!):
February 2012
The February workshop has been canceled by the presenter.
April 2012
Workshop:
Principles of Good Website Design for Writers
Presenter:
Catherine Chant
Dates:
April 1-13, 2012
Fee:
$20 FRW member & $25 non FRW member
At the end of this workshop you will have a better understanding of what goes into
making your author website more appealing and inviting to a visitor and thus
more effective for promoting you and your work.
This two-week workshop will cover the golden ratio of layout design, web fonts
and web-safe colors, using white space, user interface considerations and
website organization, web graphics for the artistically challenged, and the
importance of testing websites with multiple operating systems and browser
applications.
This workshop is aimed at writers who have websites already and want to make
them better, or writers who are planning to set up a website and want to know
more about how the content should be arranged, either because they plan to do it
themselves, or they want to be more informed when hiring a professional
designer.
About Catherine:
Catherine Chant is a PRO member of the Romance Writers of
America (RWA), a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and
Illustrators (SCBWI) and webmaster for her RWA chapter, From the Heart Romance
Writers (fthrw.com). A graduate of Boston College, she worked for fifteen years
at her alma mater as a computing & communications consultant and now provides
freelance web editing and design services to other writers and clients such as
BC's Lynch School of Education. Her short fiction and non-fiction work has
appeared in RWA newsletters, CharacterS, SchoolArts, MetroKids, Twilight Times,
Apollos Lyre, and various instructional websites where she writes about
computers, gaming and crafts. Her young adult time travel romance WISHING YOU
WERE HERE was a finalist in the 2008 Golden Heart® awards. She is currently
working a new young adult novel.
June 2012
Workshop:
Whose Story is This? The Nuts and Bolts
of Point of View
Presenter:
Susan Palmquist
Dates:
June 4-25, 2012
Fee:
$20 FRW member & $25 non FRW member
Intended audience-beginning and intermediate writers
Length-Four weeks
Goals of Workshop
Participants will:
- Know the differences between first and third person tenses and how they relate
to point of view
- Know which POV is right for their story
- Know how to spot and prevent head hopping
- Know how to use deep POV to add more emotional depth to their story
About Susan:
Susan Palmquist is a freelance
writer and author of six novels, four of which are romances. She’s also a
published short story writer who’s been published in both the US and UK and two
of her stories have recently appeared in anthologies. Under her pen name,
Vanessa Devereaux she writes erotic romances and erotica and has published six
novels/novellas. Her next book One Night With You will be a June 2011 release.
She also writes a weekly money saving blog at called The Budget Smart Girl’s
Guide to the Universe. Susan is also a writing tutor for Writers’ News School in
the UK. While she might not have sold everything she’s written, she’s never had
an editor refuse to read her work after seeing one of her synopsis.
Her secret? She really loves to write them and thinks it’s like creating a story
in itself. In her work as a tutor she sees synopsis that while formatted right
lack the I want to read this story quality, necessary to make a sale. In this
class she’ll show you how to add the ‘wow’ factor.
For more information about Susan, visit
www.susanpalmquist.com,
www.vanessadevereaux.com, and
www.budgetsmartgirl.com
July 2012
Workshop:
Punctuation, Homonyms, Grammar, OH, MY. Engage Your Reader with Attention-Grabbing
Sentences
Presenter:
The Queen Of English
Dates:
July 9-21, 2012
Fee:
$20 FRW member & $25 non FRW member
This two-week workshop covers the all-important sentence — the sentence is the building
block of your story — and ways to vary its structure to grab your reader with
the first sentence and keep her until the last sentence.
About The Queen of English:
The Queen of English is an English teacher by training. She has a major
in secondary English education and has taught English fifteen years in
elementary schools and high schools. She jokingly called herself the Queen of
English in front of a class of 5th graders seven years ago and the title stuck.
She has since worked hard to live up to the title by using standard English in
her speech and writing, even when people have looked at her weird. She has
collected many resources over the years to ensure that she is always right, at
least as far as eight graders know. The Queen also has a dream of being a
romance novelist. In a class she took to improve point of view in her fiction
writing, she met an amazing editor who has encouraged her in her writing. She
also wants to thank all the writers she has met over the last year for their
friendship, their sharing of knowledge on various topics of interest, and for
their encouragement, also.
September 2012
Workshop: Microsoft Word for Writers
Presenter: Catherine Chant
Dates: September 3-28, 2012
Fee: $20 FRW member & $25 non FRW member
We all know Microsoft Word can type words, help us get that book of our
hearts onto the page, but we also know that for its large price tag this program
must be able to do other things to help make our writing lives easier.
Microsoft Word for Writers focuses on teaching you the aspects of the
Word program that are most useful for writers. Lessons include: proper
manuscript formatting, creating headers/footers, working with page numbers,
creating a manuscript template, customizing the toolbars, understanding/
customizing the Auto-Correct feature, and using the Work menu or Recent
Documents menu as a shortcut to work with multiple documents at the same time.
Other subjects that will be covered include: formatting the query letter,
creating a query letter template, creating envelopes and SASE labels, using
Track Changes to work with critique partners, and backing up your computer
files. This workshop is geared toward both Windows and Macintosh users with any
version of Microsoft Word between 1997 and 2011.
About Catherine:
Catherine Chant is a PRO member of the Romance Writers of
America (RWA), a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and
Illustrators (SCBWI) and webmaster for her RWA chapter, From the Heart Romance
Writers (fthrw.com). A graduate of Boston College, she worked for fifteen years
at her alma mater as a computing & communications consultant and now provides
freelance web editing and design services to other writers and clients such as
BC's Lynch School of Education. Her short fiction and non-fiction work has
appeared in RWA newsletters, CharacterS, SchoolArts, MetroKids, Twilight Times,
Apollos Lyre, and various instructional websites where she writes about
computers, gaming and crafts. Her young adult time travel romance WISHING YOU
WERE HERE was a finalist in the 2008 Golden Heart® awards. She is currently
working a new young adult novel.
Would you like to be a presenter for Florida Romance Writers??
For information
about becoming a FRW presenter or to submit a class proposal, contact the
Workshop Moderator via
email. Class proposals should include class
description, outline and a small bio about you.
Frequently Asked Questions
In what format are the classes presented?
We use Yahoo Groups to present our classes. After you sign up, an E-vite is sent to you email.
You accept the E-vite to join the group and set up your membership (individual email is recommended). After you have set up your membership all classes and class communications are sent to your email.
When will I receive my E-vite?
E-vites are typically issued two days before class begins.
What do I do if I am having a problem with my E-vite?
Contact the moderator via
emaill for assistance.
What do I do if I do not receive an E-vite?
If you registered prior to the beginning of class and did not receive an E-vite within the above-mentioned time frame, first check your SPAM folder to ensure it was not incorrectly routed there. If there is no E-vite in your SPAM folder, please contact the Workshop Moderator via
email to request another E-vite to be sent.
Will late registration delay joining the class?
Registrations and payment confirmation can take up to 48 hours to process. We try our best to reduce this time frame, but strongly encourage participants to register a minimum of 4 days prior to the class start date.
If I miss a class or a post can I retrieve it?
All classes can be accessed on the Yahoo Group site.
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