Meeting Archive

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Michele Drier – Adding Tension to Your Work

No recording was done. Notes for the presentation are in the December 2024 newsletter.

Handouts

Shawn Langwell – Demystifying Book Marketing for Self-Published Authors.

Video Recording

Slides of Presentation

James Auld – Lessons from the Grind.

Video Recording

Handout

Lois Buchter – The Perils of Screen Writing.

Video Recording

Handout

Lisa Montanaro – Ready, Set, Launch! Developing a Successful Book Launch Plan.

Video Recording – camera is behind due to technical limitations.

Handout

Brooke Warner – Memoir Mojo, Tips for Writing a Memoir that Sells.

Presentation Slides

Melissa Hart – How to Write & Submit Short Personal Essays to Magazines & Newspapers.

Video recording

Presentation Files.

Kathy Marshall – How to bring research to life in your novels.

Video recording

Presentation Files.

Larry Mandelberg – My first-hand experience with a hybrid publisher and the pitfalls to watch out for.

Video recording

Presentation Files

Karen Phillips – Presentation is Everything, book cover design and formatting.

Video recording

PowerPoint Slides

Norman Plotkin – Writing in the age of artificial intelligence.

Video recording

PowerPoint Slides

Bernard Wozny – delivers the Keynote Speech at the Elk Grove Writers Conference, September 9th, 2023.

Video recording – Introduction by Loy Holder, Elk Grove Writers Guild president. Note that screen is not in view, but questions can be heard at the end.

PowerPoint Slides

A joint presentation:

Bernard Wozny – Build an Author Website. And Alysse Adularia – Market your website.

PowerPoint Slides

Elaine Faber – You Don’t Know what you Don’t Know. See the link below for her talk. Use the other links as they come up in the talk.

Elaine Faber – Do’s & Don’ts of writing

The turquoise Clip is an example of how NOT to write, see if you can count all the bad bits.

The Turquoise Clip

Three elements to construct a scene – See, Think, Act. Any written character who enters a scene should follow these rules.

Scene Characteristics

Eileen Hook – What’s Special About Eliza.

Watch Eileen Talk about Eliza

Anna J Stewart – Tell Me Why: Creating Realistic & Believable Motivation for your Characters.

Judith Starkston – Mastering Deep Point of View.

Pete Cruz – Why emotions are significant to telling a story.

Jordan Bernal – Pitching to agents or publishers.

Brina Patel – Copy Writing.

A recording was not made.
PowerPoint Slides

Stephanie Chandler – Creating a community of followers.

A recording was not made due to technical issues.
PowerPoint Slides

Andrew Laufer – Author, Storyteller, Poet.

Recording
PowerPoint Slides
Soulful Needs, a poem written by Andrew Laufer during the Poetry Summit.

Somadhi Kakwasi – Author, Storyteller, Writing Teacher, explains how to create Braided, Creative Non-Fiction.

Recording
PowerPoint Slides
Example Essay “The Future may be Bleak”.

Michael Brandt – talks about creating a writer’s bible to help develop your character, your plot and your book.

Jill hedgcock – Using the context of travel writing, Jill talks about creating Muse boards to help you to develop your plot and story content while writing your book.

PowerPoint Slides

Gini Grossenbacher M.Ed. – Building characters from the inside out, Gini explains how to build believable characters for your story. Using ideas developed by Lisa Cron, Gini explains how the brain follows characters through simulation.

Claire Booth – Making a Good Mystery: Pacing, Clues & Character.

Claire takes the elements of a good mystery — pacing, dialogue, and character development—and transfer them to any genre of fiction.

Claire’s Recording – Making a Good Mystery

Paul Zeidman – talks about writing screen plays for film and television. Paul is the author of the three GO AHEAD AND ASK screenwriting books. He explains the structure of a screen play, what it is and what it isn’t, importantly how it differs from novel writing.

Cheryl Stapp – The pros & cons of using a pen name plus, the advantages of creative specialization.

Recording – Using a pen name

ML Hamilton – Crossing Genres. In this video, ML Hamilton discusses the pros and cons of writing is different genres using her own experience as background.

Chris Hennessy Story Telling Crossover – How he turned his video story telling abilities into book writing, filmmaking and speaking opportunities.

Recording – Story Telling Crossover

Scott and Tish Davidson, August 2022

Recording – From Fatal to Acceptance in the First Five Pages

Kymberlie Ingalls, July 2022

Recording Note: this meeting has some minor edits to remove an unwelcome intruder to Zoom. You may want to have a copy of her handout while watching her presentation.
Create a Relevant Marketing Plan handout

Susy Flory, July 2022