We have at least 6 people interested in a version of Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write. I'll go over this concept with the FWC Brain Trust and we'll set a meeting, as well as another Open Critique Group.
We are looking at September 18 or 25 for the next Conference meeting. I am hoping to get Publisher and Editor Ken Esten Cook of the Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post as our speaker. I messed up the planning for that, we did the Shameless Self Promotion Workshop with Eva Pohler instead, but I forgot to announce that and tell the speaker it wasn't happening. Eva put everything she told us about promoting our work in an ebook. If you couldn't make the class, buy the ebook and take notes as you go.
There is a good blog on writing by a sassy and irreverent Canadian at http://bareknucklewriter.com/ "I like to have the grunt writing work done before noon, pouring out all the novel stuff in a caffeine-fueled rush like a hail of word-bullets." She recommends downloading http://writeordie.com/ and setting it to kamikaze mode, which deletes words if you don't keep typing.
You might wonder what Fredericksburg Writers Conference is all about. Here you go:
Support and encourage writers of all kinds by:
- quarterly meetings with interesting speakers.
- building relationships through critique groups and other meetings.
- holding an annual agent and editor conference just like the big guys .
- holding seminars on related skills (as in the recent promotion seminar, in which we net $250 towards that goal).
I believe we are finding a core group of writers to build this program around. The way it works so far is that Mara Fox Moretti has the ideas, and I know how to make them happen.
