Willamette Writers Hillsboro Presents

Five Essential Phases of Writing a Novel or Memoir with Abigail Raeke

On February 14, 2023, at 6:30 PM, please join book coach Abigail Raeke for a discussion on five essential phases of writing a novel or memoir. Writing a book can be an overwhelming endeavor, but breaking down the process brings clarity and inspiration. We’ll discuss when to hire a book coach or developmental editor (and the difference between the two) as well as resources and tips for each writing phase.

About Abigail Raeke

Abigail Raeke is a writer, developmental editor, and certified book coach with an MFA from Mills College. As a coach, Abbie empowers writers to tell their unique stories and craft strong books. Her instructive style demystifies the narrative process and provides essential skills that writers need to achieve their publishing goals.

As usual, this will be a hybrid meeting. We meet at the Hillsboro Brookwood Library (2850 NE Brookwood Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124) and online.

After reading Zoom details below, register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrc-quqD8tHdzjcgsdA3_eo-1Geub-08dF

About your chapter meetings

Willamette Writers meetings are open to all writers, 18 and up. Guests are welcome to make a donation to help support the cost of the meeting (we believe in paying our speakers for their time and skills). This meeting is run by volunteers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Young writers are encouraged to join our Young Willamette Writers meetings. Sign Up! Any high school or middle-grade writers are welcome to join us. Sign up for our email list at: http://eepurl.com/hRubBf  A registration link will be sent to our email list before our next meeting.

MASKING: Willamette Writers continues to require mask-wearing at our in-person, indoor meetings. If you are unable to mask, we invite you to join us at one of our online Chapter Meetings. Here is a link to our policies.

Zoom Details

You have to be logged into your own personal Zoom account to attend this meeting (to create a FREE account, go to Zoom.us).

Once you are logged in to your own personal zoom account, register for the meeting in the link provided above.

On the day of the meeting, log into your Zoom account and then click the link zoom sent you in your email when you registered with the link above. If you are logged into your personal zoom account, you can also click the link above and register again if you need to. If you have not done this before, we encourage you to try logging in a half hour before the meeting begins. We had to change our meeting access because of a few inappropriate guests, but we want to continue to keep our meetings open to the public.