PLEASE SEE LINKS TO SPEAKERS' WEBSITES IN DAY ONE POSTING
Day Two was a workshop designed for us to get our thoughts and pens rolling. Mine began with prolific note taking. Being an event organizer through my company Events Unlimited, I has sympathy when one of the speakers had an old agenda and arrived very late. People were understanding and went with flow, softened by a wonderful lunch and lots of sweets.
Seminars were overlapping and we had to make choices. Very difficult, so I missed Deborah Levine Herman's presentation on Writing For The Spiritual market - How To Get Published.
Jane Friedman fleshed out her presentation of day one. She explained E-Publishing, old ways and the new. ways to self promote, blogging and social media. She said nothing is static. Everything is changing very quickly.
Laura Munson, best selling author of This Is Not the Story You Think It Is ...A Season of Unlikely Happiness, talked about sudden success, the good and the bad. She spoke on The Inner Critic, The success Myth and How We Get In Our Own Way.
Barb Heinlein (BJ Daniels) spoke about Six Sure Fire Ways to Begin Your Book, and then got us writing those opening words to our books. Stimulating, productive and fun!
Katharine Sands gave us Welling Points, Sales Engines, Media Platform and Making that perfect Pitch. She told us that getting a book published the old fashioned way is not dead, and should be combined with some of the "New" ways.
Kathi Appelt spoke about Children and Young Adult Writing - Age Specific, and presented a Publication Overview.
The presentations ended with Lavonne Mueller, noted American Playwright, leading us in writing a 10-minute play. Our plays were then acted by professional actors. I have added another arrow to my quiver of writing genres. We were instructed to write about someone talking an off stage person out of a place the actor I chose did an excellent job and added elements I had not written into the script. The college is having a play contest and we were encouraged to enter.
The official conference was wrapped up with a free-for-all panel discussion and Q & A. My head was spinning as I left the room. All presenters were extremely generous with their time and made themselves available individually. The organizers of the conference invited me to the wrap up pot luck and I was able to spend even more time with the presenters who had not had to catch planes earlier.
This morning BJ Daniels (Barb) met me for breakfast and we said our goodbyes over a discussion of writers workshops. This prolific author had just recently left one she had been a part of for 30 years. I was recently uninvited from one that had been a part of my life for 10 or so years.
I have the habit of writing this blog very late at night. I think I have proofed before publishing. When I return a few days later, I am appalled by the errors. Please forgive me.
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