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Online Corvallis: Reviewing Books with Karen Eisenbrey
Online Corvallis: Reviewing Books with Karen Eisenbrey
Willamette Writers on the River present Why Review Other Authors’ Books? This meeting is online only. Author Karen Eisenbrey aims to review every book she reads, though she is not a professional reviewer. She will share what goes into a review and the benefits of this practice, not only for the authors reviewed but for…
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Hybrid Eugene and Southern Oregon: Diverse Characters with Diana Nadeau
Hybrid Eugene and Southern Oregon: Diverse Characters with Diana Nadeau
Creating Diverse Characters with Integrity with Diana Nadeau Character development is key to great writing. And honoring diversity is key to life. So, how do we put the two together and enter into creating characters that represent diverse communities with integrity and without causing harm to those very same community members? We do it with…
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Salem: Self-Publishing Basics with Chris Patchell
Salem: Self-Publishing Basics with Chris Patchell
Willamette Writers Salem Presents: Book Publishing Basics: How to Navigate the Amazon Jungle This meeting is in-person in Salem. No Zoom. Ever wonder what it takes to publish your book on Amazon? Join USA Today Best Selling Author, Chris Patchell, for a step-by-step look through the process. Learn what you’ll need to prepare in advance…
Hybrid YWW North: Speed Story
Hybrid YWW North: Speed Story
Young Willamette Writers Presents Speed Story with Eric Witchey Mastering the craft of fiction requires study and practice in the same way that mastering the game of Chess requires study and practice. Practicing cognitive study and intuitive development enhances skill. To develop cognitive understanding, Chess masters play thousands of games, study repeating patterns on the…
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Hybrid Portland: Character and Landscape with Rachel King
Hybrid Portland: Character and Landscape with Rachel King
Willamette Writers Portland Presents Character and Landscape with Rachel King Event starts at 7PM. Doors open at 6:45PM. Join us Tuesday, March 7th at 1336 NW Flanders at 7:00 pm to hear Rachel King discuss how landscape and character are inseparable and intertwined in her novel People Along the Sand and her linked short story…
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Online: FilmLab Screenwriter’s Happy Hour
Online: FilmLab Screenwriter’s Happy Hour
Join us for FilmLab Screenwriter's Happy Hour! Welcome to the month of March—a good time to consider what might be next for that completed script and your career. Please join us at the next FilmLab Screenwriter's Happy Hour on March 8, 2023 from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. Zoom Room opens at 5PM. The link is below.…
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Hybrid YWW South: Place as Character with LeeAnn McLennan
Hybrid YWW South: Place as Character with LeeAnn McLennan
Young Willamette Writers - Southern Chapter Urban Fantasy: Place as Character with LeeAnn McLennan Would Batman be the same if it wasn’t set in Gotham? We’ll explore place as character through the lens of The Supernormal Legacy trilogy set in Portland, Oregon. How does the setting inform the narrative? And how would the story be…
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Hybrid Hillsboro: Memoir with Valerie Ihsan
Hybrid Hillsboro: Memoir with Valerie Ihsan
Willamette Writers Hillsboro Presents Finding the Core Message of Your Memoir with Valerie Ihsan Theme is arguably more important in memoir than in any other genre. You need a compelling takeaway for the reader because you aren’t a celebrity coasting on your platform. You are an ordinary person who lived an extraordinary segment of your…
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Coast: Book Banning and Censorship with Laura Kimberly
Coast: Book Banning and Censorship with Laura Kimberly
Willamette Writers Coast Presents Book Banning and Censorship with Laura Kimberly Join us in-person (only) on Saturday, March 18 from 2:00 pm-3:30 pm in the McEntee Meeting Room of the Newport Public Library, Many books are banned and challenged today. A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based on the objections of…
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Hybrid Vancouver: Memoir – A Different Approach with Alan Rose
Hybrid Vancouver: Memoir – A Different Approach with Alan Rose
Willamette Writers Vancouver presents Memoir: A Different Approach with Alan Rose People often find writing a memoir to be daunting—Where to begin? How to tell my story? What is my story? This one-hour interactive workshop offers an alternative to the memoir as a chronological narrative, presenting an approach that identifies and distills significant moments that helped define…
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Online Corvallis & Southern: Creating While Aging with Priscilla Long
Online Corvallis & Southern: Creating While Aging with Priscilla Long
Willamette Writers on the River in Corvallis Presents Creating While Aging with Priscilla Long This meeting is online only. Join us on Monday, March 27 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM (Zoom Room Opens at 6:20PM) for author Priscilla Long's online presentation "Creating While Aging: How Knowledge of New Science and Role Models Can Spur us to…
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Hybrid Eugene: Writing and Rewriting with Dante Zúñiga-West
Hybrid Eugene: Writing and Rewriting with Dante Zúñiga-West
Willamette Writers Eugene Presents Writing and Rewriting with Dante Zúñiga-West Good writing is rewriting. While it’s romantic to think the first draft of a writer’s work can be a perfect rendition, purely sourced from a fresh imaginative state, this simply isn’t the case. Good writing is rewriting because effective storytelling requires acute attention to detail.…