I’ve been on a three-month sabbatical, of sorts, except I’m not a teacher, I didn’t get paid for it, and I didn’t travel anywhere. Perhaps I should re-phrase: I quit blogging for the last three months because I simply didn’t have time while trying to create a new website for LDStorymakers, an author’s guild to [...]
Archive for the ‘Writers Conferences and Retreats’ Category
At Last: Karen Joy Fowler’s Tips on Dialogue
Posted in Writers Conferences and Retreats, Writing, tagged dialogue, Gail Tsukiyama, Karen Joy Fowler, Maui Writer's Retreat on April 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Believable Dialogue, Pt. 2 – Literary Fiction
Posted in Writers Conferences and Retreats, Writing, tagged Edith Wharton, Karen Joy Fowler, Maui Writer's Retreat, The Jane Austen Book Club on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As I said in an earlier post, literary fiction is a different beast altogether when it comes to dialogue. This is one of my favorite quotes regarding the use of dialogue in literary fiction: “The use of dialogue in fiction seems to be one of the few things about which a fairly definite rule may [...]
Writing Contest for LDS Women
Posted in Writers Conferences and Retreats, Writing Contests, tagged essays, poetry, Segullah, short fiction on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For any of you who may be interested: Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women is pleased to announce its annual writing competitions in the genres of personal essay, poetry, and fiction. Segullah welcomes unpublished entries which address any subject in harmony with its mission: to publish insightful writings which explore life’s richness and complexity while reflecting [...]
Believable Dialogue, Part 1–Characterization
Posted in Writers Conferences and Retreats, Writing, tagged characterization, dialogue, Gail Tsukiyama, Karen Joy Fowler, Rita Mae Brown, writers retreat on October 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I got back from a wonderful writers retreat about a week ago, one at which I had to make a couple of presentations. Since one of them was about writing believable dialogue, I thought I’d repeat much of what I shared here on my blog…only in parts. To begin with, most of what I’m about [...]
David Wolverton’s Workshop at LDS Storymaker
Posted in Writers Conferences and Retreats, tagged Bestsellers, David Wolverton, LDS Storymakers on April 30, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Now that I’ve polished up my synopsis for Laps I want to share some of what I learned at the Storymakers Conference last week. Besides participating in Boot Camp and hearing a couple of panel discussions (one on the writing process and the other featuring two national agents and an editor), I had signed up [...]
LDS Storytellers Conference
Posted in Writers Conferences and Retreats, tagged Laura Rennert, LDS Storytellers, Liz Adair, writers, Writers conference, writers retreat on April 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’ve almost recovered from the ten hour drive home yesterday from Provo, Utah, where I got to see my daughter–now a junior at BYU–and attend the LDS Storymakers Conference. I came back with a wealth of information, particularly on the marketing side of writing (everything from online presence to designing a story with wide mass [...]
Upcoming ANWA Writers Conference
Posted in Culture & Education, Literary & Artistic, Writers Conferences and Retreats, tagged ANWA, Writers conference on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While I can’t afford to attend this next one, the American Night Writers Association is putting on a pretty impressive writers conference in February, and I encourage all of you writers (LDS or not) to check out the list of presenters. If you’re as impressed as I was, and either live nearby or can afford [...]
