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Alissa Grosso, Chris Redding, GLVWG Program Speakers, Kathryn Craft, Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Tips
Mark your calendars, GLVWG’s Program Chair, Brenda Havens, has lined up excellent speakers for the new fiscal year, following the general meeting at the Palmer Library in Palmer Township.
Chris Redding
September 24, 2016
Chris Redding will present a morning session on “How to Make Money Before You Hit It Big”. Ghostwriting is just one of the ways that a writer can make money while building a career. Chris Redding will take writers through the various types of writing that will make them short- term money, and to websites where they can find those jobs. Included in the session will be tips on obtaining and retaining clients for a steady income.
In the afternoon, Redding will lead a 90-minute workshop on “Layering: Not Just for Cakes”. In this class, students start with two pages of dialogue, and transform it into a fully functioning scene. By adding each element of what needs to go into a story individually, students will see how it all makes the whole, and will be able to add all the elements seamlessly, including description and character emotions. Instead of deconstructing a scene, they will construct a scene from the ground up.
The afternoon workshop is free for GLVWG members, and $15 for non-members. Register at glvwg.org
Chris Redding lives in New Jersey juggling her family, a part time job, and her writing. She has seven books, a short story and a collection of short stories published. Website: http://chrisredddingauthor.blogspot.com/
Alissa Grosso
October 22, 2016
Easton author Alissa Grosso will speak in a morning session on “10 Lessons for Writers from a Former Indie Book Reviewer”.
In the afternoon, Grosso will lead a 90-minute workshop titled “From First Draft to Published Novel (a talk on revisions and edits)”.
The afternoon workshop is free for GLVWG members, and $15 for non-members. Register at glvwg.org
Alissa Grosso is a young adult novelist whose books have been published on four continents. She’s the author of the novels Popular (Flux, 2011), Ferocity Summer (Flux, 2012) and Shallow Pond (Flux, 2013). She frequently speaks about the world of books and publishing, and the ups and downs of being a writer on her YouTube channel Awkward Author. Her writing has appeared in a number of newspapers, magazines and websites, and she is a monthly contributor to YA Outside the Lines. Alissa is represented by Jim McCarthy at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. Her website is alissagrosso.com
Kathryn Craft
November 26, 2016
Pennsylvania author Kathryn Craft will present a morning session titled “Developing a Confident Voice”. Readers respond to the confidence in an author’s tone. It’s that “mysterious something” that elevates prose beyond the ordinary. It inspires trust. The reader may not be able to analyze it, but he knows it when he sees it, and responds by continuing to read. Writers despair that author confidence is an intangible, bestowed by sensibility or absorbed by osmosis. Both may be true, but there’s a third element: craft. In this presentation, writers will pick up tips to infuse their prose with confidence.
In an afternoon workshop, “I Wrote It, Now What?” based on the presenter’s personal experience as well as the types of issues she encounters daily as a developmental editor, attendees will take a hard look at what it really means to “develop” a work of writing. Hint: It isn’t only about dotting “i’s” and crossing “t’s”, and it can’t possibly be addressed in one additional draft. Attendees will leave with a game plan for how to organize a multiple-drafting process that will bring to fruition the full potential of their work. Prerequisite: a near-to-fully drafted novel.
The afternoon workshop is free for GLVWG members, and $15 for non-members. Register at glvwg.org
Kathryn Craft writes stories that seek beauty and meaning at the edge of darkness. Rich with material for further thought or discussion, her novels make a great choice for book clubs. Long a leader in the southeastern Pennsylvania writing scene, Kathryn served for more than a decade in a variety of positions on the boards of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group and the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference, and volunteers as time allows with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Kathryn also hosts writing retreats for women and speaks often about writing. She writes a monthly series, “Turning Whine into Gold,” at the Writers in the Storm blog, and freelances as a developmental editor at Writing-Partner.com. She is a proud member of the Tall Poppies Writers, a marketing cooperative of women’s fiction writers.
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