Learn The Craft of Writing
For members and invited guests Board Meeting starts at 9 AM. All members are welcome to join the board for the meeting. Not Your Average Vision Board Workshop Victoria Smith, local speaker, Stress Reduction Coach and podcast host will lead us in a vision board workshop that will not only give you a clear vision of what … Read more
Time: 7 PM to 9 PM, St. Mark’s Lodge, 2612 14A Street SW, Calgary. For members and invited guests Speaker – M. Jane Colette M. Jane Colette riffs off her Organized Creative workshop (and workbook) to tell you why not being able to find matching socks, your notebook, and the time to write all stem … Read more
Time: 7 PM to 9 PM, St. Mark’s Lodge, 2612 14A Street SW, Calgary Speaker – Tammy Lyn Carbol How important is physical touch to intimacy? “The 12 Stages of Intimacy” was originally presented by Desmond Morris, a behavioural scientist in 1971, and adapted for romance writing by Linda Howard. When writing, these steps help … Read more
For members and invited guests Board Meeting starts at 9 AM. All members are welcome to join the board for the meeting. SUBTEXT – Diana Cranstoun Learn about Subtext through discussion using movie examples. If you have any segments of favourite movie scenes of your own that you would like to share, please bring them … Read more
Time: 7 PM to 9 PM, St. Mark’s Lodge, 2612 14A Street SW, Calgary Speaker – Vi Peace Reading is a spectator sport. The reader needs to have a vested interest in the story action. By raising the emotional stakes it will involve the reader and have them cheering on the protagonists as the athletes … Read more
What are the 7 most common grammatical structures that mark amateur writers and are found in first drafts for most of us? (Especially for first time writers.) Join Mahrie G. Reid as we learn to identify and fix these structures. A fast review of the most common and a closer look at participles and sequencing. Bring pages of … Read more
Mar ch 9, 2019 at 10:30 am at St Mark’s Lodge. For members and invited guests. Board Meeting starts at 9 AM. All members are welcome to join the board for the meeting. Plotting As Process & Productivity/Sanity Too Speaker – MJ Colette March 9, 2019 at 10:30 am at St Mark’s Lodge. For members and invited … Read more
Join Stress Reduction Coach, Victoria Smith, to build the strategies to help you reduce your everyday stress and increase your motivation so that you writers have more time for what matters most – writing! Victoria Smith is a Stress Reduction Coach who is on a mission to help women significantly reduce their stress so that … Read more
January 24th, 2019 at 7:00 PM at St Mark’s Lodge. Members and Invited Guests only. Mark Kolke – presentation for Alberta Romance Writers Association – to assist writers with ‘presentation skills’ for speaking to small or large audiences when: teaching aspiring writers doing a book launch and/or a reading doing public appearance presentations associated with marketing their book … Read more