Plotting All The Right Moves Our meeting is on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday. Heather Ames will be speaking to the Salem Chapter at the Scottish Rite Center on Thursday, January 9th, from 6:30 to 8:30. She will present ideas for using plot structure effectively to make your story flow and appeal…
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Eugene: Playing the Long Game: How to keep going, no matter what with Jeff Geiger
Playing the Long Game: How to keep going, no matter what Because of the holiday, the Eugene Chapter’s meeting will be on the SECOND Thursday of the month. January 9, 2020. J.C. Geiger has eaten the beating heart of a snake, been deported from a full-moon party, and spent a short time locked in a…
YWW Portland: A Young Willamette Writers Gathering
A Young Willamette Writers Gathering This is our new location and time! In December, the YWW’s gather to enjoy the friendships that have formed around a love of writing. We bring our latest work-in-progress to read aloud if we want. We listen and encourage and celebrate. If we have time, we do a writing exercise…
Corvallis: Poetry of Place, and Handling Submissions with John Sibley Williams
Poetry of Place, and Handling Submissions Please join us on November 25th, from 6:30-8:30PM at our Willamette Writers on the River Chapter Meeting! In the first part of the program, Williams will address poetry of place with a discussion of how natural and constructed landscapes affect our identities and shape our writing. This workshop will…
Vancouver: Writing Your Passion with Stephanie Feldstein
Writing Your Passion Don’t just write what you know – write what you love. We all have hobbies, curiosities, and passions beyond the page. These things are more than just what we do when we’re not writing. They’re the pieces that create the puzzle of who we are and what motivates us. Instead of seeing…
Newport: How to Write a Mystery with Ron Lovell
How to Write a Mystery Gleneden Beach author Ron Lovell, author of the Thomas Martindale and Lorenzo Madrid mystery series, will take time off from “who done it” to show “how he does it” at the Nov. 17 meeting of Willamette Writers coast chapter. The free workshop takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. at…
YWW Southern Oregon: Jadie Jones
It’s Not Just the Hero’s Journey: How to Craft a Villain to Believe In Our next meeting at the Library in Grants Pass (200 NW C St, Grants Pass, OR 97526) from 10:30 am – noon will be held on Saturday, Nov. 16th. We’ll continue meeting there on the third Saturday of the month at…
Eugene: Monsters Are Needy: How to Feed and Nurture Your Bad Guys with Erick Mertz
Monsters Are Needy: How to Feed and Nurture Your Bad Guys LOCATION: Tsunami Books in Eugene, Doors open at 6:30PM Well-crafted villains are an integral part of writing across all genres. What most writers miss, however, is just how needy their story’s antagonist really is. In this presentation we will explore bad guys and villains…
Salem: Maren Bradley Anderson
Alternative Writing Tools We are now meeting at the Scottish Rite Center on the First Wednesday of the month. So a change in place and date! Writing is a physical activity that can present challenges to people with different abilities ranging from those who develop Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI), to those who have visual differences,…
Portland: Jennifer Lauck
Plot: not everything needs a happily-ever-after Let’s go back to basics with an immersive conversation about plot on Tuesday, November 5th at the United Church of Christ in downtown Portland (doors open at 6:30PM). As we watch the news in our own country, right now, do we know what plot we’re in? Who is the…