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Lie to Me!

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Thursday, October 25th, 7-9pm.  St Mark’s. Members only. Richard Patzer spent over ten years as a polygraph detective for the Calgary Police Service.  His exciting presentation will address lies, body language and statement analysis. Richard’s talk will begin promptly at 7pm.

Saturday Workshop

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Just back from attending Suzanne and Sherile’s FABULOUS workshop on a character’s Inner Journey.  Great presentation, examples and handouts. You’ve given us lots to think about and great tools to use.  Many thanks, guys.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH. THE INNER JOURNEY

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Join Suzanne Stengl and Sherile Reilly for a fascinating examination of your character’s inner journey – what changes does s/he go through as your story unfolds. Instead of referencing particular books, they will be discussing character development in three popular films: 1) Hitch 2) Sleepless in Seattle 3)When Harry Met Sally. If you only have … Read more

Website Woes

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Please bear with us as we work out some issue with our web host. In the meantime the ARWA blog will be updated with information for upcoming events, membership and location information.

Better late than never?

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It’s been a while, I know, fortunately Jude remembered this blog existed and emailed a contribution. Sorry for the lateness, Jude. Her entire email is below (copy and pasted because I’m lazy – although I’ll take credit for the italics). Please note Ray Bradbury didn’t die today it’s just been a long time since I checked the email. … Read more

Some Stuff You Probably Need to Know

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Two posts in less than 3 months, whaaaaaat?! **** Sexual Tension (is sexy and tense): Last month Sarah gave a presentation on creating, and maintaining, sexual tension between your characters. She was awesome and posted a summary for those of us who couldn’t make it to that meeting. Click on the link below to check out … Read more

The Importance of Research

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I recently read a novel by a very, very big name writer in which her character makes reference to a member of her family tree who was burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials. I don’t think so. In doing my Elizabethan research for a time travel novel, I inadvertently read about these … Read more

Why? Because I said so, dammit!

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If you struggle with creating believable characters or wrestle with authorial plot manipulation than you should have been at the last meeting. If not, well congrats – you’re awesome, but for the rest of us it was chock full o’ handy info on developing believable, realistic characters who will drive your plot. Jude Wilner not only let … Read more

I Guess It’s January or Something.

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I sometimes lose track. Whatever. Christmas, New Year’s, and my birthday (34 and still getting ID’d) have all come and gone and now I’m out of legitimate excuses for delaying the launch of this blog. So, TADA! Here it is… Today was the first meeting of the new year. Diana Scott led the rest of the … Read more