Christmas Party – Odds and Ends

    Christmas Party

For information on the SFW Christmas party please check the Christmas Party Page link to the right. Also there is more information in this month’s newsletter, which can be found on the newsletter page. A SFW party is the prefect opportunity to relax and commiserate with your fellow writers. We hope everyone can attend.

 

Also at the party the winners of this year’s summer writing contest will be announced. The suspense is unbearable, but we’ve all waited this long so a few more days will not hurt. Good luck to all who entered.

 

If you wish to participate in the book exchange, please remember to bring a gift wrapped book (minimum value of around $15 is suggested).

 

Odds and Ends

Anyone who has already had a chance to read our newsletter by now knows that our own Susan Klaus had a most unique opportunity to meet and chat with Stephen King. I hate her. Enough said.

 

 

Terry Griffin has completed his latest novel, Wyatt’s Revenge. The book launch is scheduled for Saturday, December 13th at the Mar Vista Pub and Restaurant on Longboat Key between 3-5 pm. (See newsletter for more details.)

Update: Wyatt’s Revenge Winner National Best Book Award 2009

Click Bookcover Image for Link to Terry’s Website

 

Last but not least – Congratulations are in order for Jerry Keane, who was a finalist in the Scope’s 6-Word Novel contest. Well done. For more information please click on the following link:

 

Scopes Contest.

SFW would like to wish all its members and their families a wonderful holiday and good fortune in 2010.

Getting Creative with Janny Wurts

Author, illustrator, creative genius. How many of us wish we could say that about ourselves? Me too. Fortunately, we all will have the pleasure of the opportunity to meet just such a person at this month’s general meeting to be held at the Selby Library downstairs conference room on November 4th at 6:30 p.m.

 

Janny Wurts is an internationally renowned author and illustrator whose fantasy books have been sold both in the U.S. and overseas. She will be speaking on the nuts and bolts of generating and sustaining creativity, with time for questions and answers afterward, as well as time to purchase some of her exciting books.

 

Please do not miss out on this unique opportunity to hear and learn from a truly gifted and talented person.

 

Check out her website here.

Fashioning Frictionless Fiction

Workshop Event

6:30 pm Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Selby Library Auditorium

Upstairs conference room

Instructor: Bill Carrigan

 

Our esteemed grammarian will be our guest teacher.

 

Workshop: Fashioning Frictionless Fiction

 

The workshop will cover finding flaws in your fiction and how to fix them.

 

Bill Carrigan, long-time member of SFW, author of seven novels, many published short stories, and his familiar ’style sheets.’ Bill’s background as a professional science writer and editor will be crunched into a single entertaining, informative hour. Don’t miss this workshop if you take your writing seriously and want to brush up on the basics.

August Workshop

Exploring Your Inner Character

 

 

August 5, 2009

Selby Library – Upstairs

Time: 6:30 p.m.

 

Janet Albright will present a workshop designed to improve writing through developing a deeper understanding of the character.

 

“Yearning is always part of the fictional character. One way to understand plot is that it represents the dynamics of desire.” Robert Olan Butler

 

Desire is the heart of the narrative and is what drives and decides the plot. The August workshop will center on becoming proficient at being able to leave yourself and enter into the other (your character).

 

We’ll practice how to merge with the character and experience his or her internal landscape and to know the character’s world. Once you intuit what it is that your character yearns for on a deep level, you are ready for the real work of writing his or her story. Bring the idea of a new character, an old character, or one you’re working on right now. It will also be helpful to have something to write on and with.

 

Hemingway wrote: ”A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow spaces in his writing.” We can all use a reminder of how important it is to enter the heart, spirit, mind of a character. Sometimes it can even be fun to explore the deepest, most secret places of another.

 

This is sure to be a very informative event. Don’t miss it!