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.
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: Darlene Maynard This workshop Darlene will be reviewing the book “Writing Romantic Fiction” by Barbara Samuel. This book shows how to create a rounded and compelling love story. A perfect ‘romance’ themed workshop for our Treasures Along the Fenceline and for the upcoming WWC convention. You’ll also learn how to do some plotting and … Read more
Board Meeting starts at 9 AM. All members are welcome to join the board for the meeting. Zoom link to be emailed to members. Members and invited guests will be sent the Zoom link via email. Meeting begins at 10:30 AM. There will be no access to St. Mark’s Manor for this meeting. Speaker: Diana Cranstoun … Read more