Please Note
The meetings listed below have already taken place.Most WRW meetings are recorded. If you would like to check out the tapes or mp3 discs from a previous meeting or workshop, please contact our Library/Archives Chair, Julie Stewart.
December 5, 2010 – Holiday Party
Member Jennifer Bock hosts the WRW Holiday Party at her Annandale, VA home.
Check Loop announcement titled WRW Holiday Potluck - December 5 from 2-5pms sent on November 17, 2010 for Jen’s phone number, home address and direction.
WRW Holiday Potluck
Hostess: Jennifer Bock
Where: Please refer to the November 17, 2010 Loop Announcement
When: Sunday, December 5 from 2:00-5:00pm
Lost? Call Jennifer. For phone number refer to Loop announcment from November 17, 2010
November 20, 2010 – Special Guest Simon Shercliff of the British Embassy
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
4805 Edgemoor Lane
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
10:00 AM – Special guest Simon Shercliff discusses his experiences as a diplomat in places such as the United States, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Chat with our guest and his family over lunch.
1:00 PM – Strengthen your writing when Chapter President Keely Thrall preps us to judge the Marlene. Training will cover how to judge contest entries, as well as what judges want when we enter other contests. TRAINING WILL BE INTERACTIVE – Bring your stories, good, bad or indifferent, of judging and being judged!
2:15 PM – William Orr, Financial Advisor to Nora Roberts, gives writers the tools to pursue their passions worry-free. Because it’s never too soon to plan, Orr and partner Cherie Edwards present Lifecycle of a Successful Author, a workshop that dives into the heart of practical financial planning for writers and artists.
October 16, 2010 – Historical Day
American Legion Post 24 adjacent to historic Gadsby’s Tavern in Old Town Alexandria
400 Cameron Street Alexandria, Virginia 22313-0402 directions
10 AM – Historical Day gets off to a swashbuckling start with a fencing workshop.
Enjoy lunch with friends in Old Town Alexandria.
1PM – Slip on your dancing shoes and kick up your heels, just as Jane Austen and George Washington did. Members of Dance Master Corky Palmer’s dance troupe will put us through our paces.
3PM – Storyteller Wellington Watts instructs us in the art of Colonial-era flirting and, with Halloween just days away, regales us with Alexandria-area ghost stories.
September 25, 2010 – A Day with Literary Agent Nephele Tempest
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center directions
4805 Edgemoor Lane
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
10AM – Nephele Tempest of The Knight Agency presents a day of workshops. From tackling a tricky synopsis to finding the agent that’s right for you, Nephele offers an agent’s eye view of publishing.
Lunch – Chat with Nephele and friends new and old.
1PM – Chapter projects, upcoming events, and our budget will be discussed at our Annual General Meeting.
Immediately after the Annual General Meeting, Nephele takes center stage again.
Saturday, June 5, 2010 - Creative Wellness - Fitness that Fits In!™
At the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
Starts at 10 a.m.
February’s weather couldn’t stop WRW’s Catherine Kent. Join us as Catherine presents Creative Wellness - Fitness that Fits In!™ Success as a writer depends upon a ready supply of energy: creative, mental, and physical. Whether you write full-time or juggle your writing with other work, keeping your creative well full and your butt in the chair is challenging. Catherine offers a uniquely fluid, and therefore practical, approach to achieving the common goal of wellness. Dress comfortably and bring and open mind, ready to engage in a variety of enjoyable mental and creative processes, and stimulate mental acuity to increase your energy, writing productivity, and general well being. From focused breathing and making noise, to moving, stretching, and brainstorming, this workshop is useful, effective, and fun!
Lunch - Chat with Catherine from approximately noon to 1:30 PM.
Afternoon Session - Immediately after lunch. Catherine’s workshop (and the fun) continues.
Saturday, May 22, 2010 - Romantic Suspense Day
At the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
Starts at 10 a.m.
Make your bad guys believable! NY Times Bestselling author and RITA® Winner Karen Rose teams up with her husband, Martin Hafer, to explore the psychology of Chilling Villains. With his background in psychology, Martin contrasts concepts like “psychopath” and “sociopath” and gives us the facts about behaviors that could enhance your characters. Learn the terms that can help you pull facts into your fiction.
Lunch - Chat with our guests from approximately noon to 1:30 PM.
Afternoon Session - Immediately after lunch
Karen returns to delve deeply into dialogue and secondary characters with helpful tips for writers of every genre. Then, Martin takes center stage, outlining human coping mechanisms and how understanding them can help you put conflict on the page.
Friday–Sunday, April 16–18, 2010 - See you at the Retreat!
Saturday, March 13, 2010 - YA Day
At the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
Starts at 10 a.m.
Join two-time RWA® Golden Heart® YA Finalist Amanda Brice as she discusses the growing Young Adult market with published panelists, including WRW’s own Diana Peterfreund, as well as Elizabeth Scott, Pam Bachorz, and Simon Pulse author Rhonda Stapleton.
Lunch - Chat with our guests from approximately noon to 1:30 PM.
Afternoon Session - Immediately after lunch
Wanna learn how to make teens fall in love with your characters and have a good laugh or two (or hopefully more)? Join us for Rhonda Stapleton’s Writing the YA Romantic Comedy Workshop and learn tricks on writing comedy, as well as how to write realistic teen romance in a satisfying manner. Immediately following, Rhonda switches gears to present The Fiction Writer’s Self-Editing Workshop. Do you find yourself overwhelmed by confusing grammar, punctuation, and various editing rules? Don’t despair! This workshop is the place for you. Whether you’re a beginning writer or seasoned author, you can discover simple, straightforward tips for self-editing.
Saturday, February 6, 2020 Meeting canceled
Due to the inclement weather forecast for the area, we regretfully cancel WRW’s meeting planned for Saturday, February 6. The Program Committee will work with Catherine Kent to reschedule her program to a later date. Instead, we issue:
***Snow Day Writer’s Challenge***
Think a little snow gets you off the hook? Well think again!
While Saturday’s meeting has been canceled, your chapter president (c’est moi) hereby issues you this opportunity to step up to the plate: I challenge you to have your most productive snow day of writing ever!
The details: Between now and 6 pm Sunday, sit yourself down and write, write, write. Total your word count and send it to me (). Rewriting? No problem – if you’re adding new words, give me those. If you’re editing pages, give me a page count and I’ll total those for a separate count!
From 100 words to 10,000 and anything in between, I will accept all entries, total everyone’s word count, and let our chapter know just how awesome we are at making lemon cake icing out of snowy lemons.
Yum!
Keely
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Location: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
Starts at 10 a.m.
Our Second Annual Jane-Austen-And-The-Movies Discussion
In her 1995 screenplay for Sense And Sensibility, Emma Thompson had the courage to address—and attempt to resolve—some of the novel’s weaknesses. Following the success of last year’s discussion of Pride and Prejudice, we will watch key scenes from the movie and discuss what choices Thompson made in her adaptation, not so that we can learn how to write screenplays, but so that we can write better novels.
You do not need to have seen the movie, but to participate in the discussion you will want to read (or reread) the book.
WRW member Kathleen Gilles Seidel will lead the discussion.
