Learn The Craft of Writing
C.J. Carmichael will be discussing how to Write a Christmas Story USA Today Bestselling author C. J. Carmichael has written over 45 novels in her favourite genres of romance and mystery. She has been nominated twice for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, as well as RT Bookclub’s Career Achievement in Romantic Suspense award, and the Bookseller’s Best honour.
Speaker: Diana Cranstoun I’m giving up eating chocolate for a month. Sorry, bad punctuation. I’m giving up. Eating chocolate for a month! Join Diana for a discussion to figure out some school grammar and punctuation we seem to have forgotten about. Oh… and the Oxford comma. What’s that all about? In-Person Option Thursday’s presentation will be live … Read more
For the first time since March of 2020, ARWA will be meeting in person at St. Mark’s Manor, 2612 14A Street, Calgary Alberta. It will be a hybrid meeting, with a Zoom element for our out-of-town members. Starting at 10:30 am, we will begin with a workshop. Speaker: Wendy Griffiths WENDY SAYS – Nonfiction is one … Read more
WWC is coming up fast. Learn how to navigate the online Festival and gain excellent lessons in writing.
There will be no workshop on Saturday as we don’t have one scheduled. The board meeting will discuss the coming year in programming and the upcoming WWC/35th anniversary celebration online. Come and participate in the inner workings of ARWA.
Speaker: Jessica Jackson Join Jessica L. Jackson in a presentation and discussion of what we can learn from reading other authors’ works. Kindly come prepared with the titles and authors’ names of books that have influenced your writing, or that you admire, whether fiction or non-fiction. A door prize will be won by a lucky attendee!
Speaker: Shaa Dickson Exercising the brain can help creativity. Join Shaa to learn a few brain exercises to help your writing.
Speaker: Bret Cousins (previously recorded on September 12, 2020) When a character does something totally outside of his/her motivations, it confuses the reader and weakens the narrative. Characters must be kept consistent with the skills and personalities you start them with. They can evolve and grow like real people, learning as they grow, but not sudden … Read more
Speaker: Liz Grotowski Pacing is often identified as an issue in writing, but how do you actually fix it? This presentation will give you the tools you need to up your pacing game by drilling down into pacing issues at the story structure, scene, paragraph, sentence, and even word choice level. You will leave with … Read more
Speaker: Allison Gorner Great stories have characters the reader feels connected to. But how, as writers, do we do that? To create an emotional response in the reader, the author must create characters with strong emotions. In this workshop we will be discussing two ways to effectively write emotion in your characters: emotional conflict (or … Read more