FOMO – it’s not a swear – though the frustration it causes may make us swear. The Fear Of Missing Out is a very real, very detrimental state of depression, caused by everyone seeming to have more success than you. Especially living on social media, it can be devastating to a writer’s morale in this business that involves so much rejection.
Join us with your questions and your fears – see you tonight at 4pm PST/ 7pm EST!
Next week we’ll talk about using that weird trait of yours, the one that you hate…I mean, love. The thing that makes your writing yours and makes your story unlike anyone else’s. How to identify it and how to use it, not just in your writing, but dare we say it, in…branding!
Come to chat, come to ask. Join us Sunday 7pm EST/ 4pm PST!
Next week on RWchat we’ll discuss how to infuse ambiance and atmosphere into our writing – especially in love scenes. We’ll talk about tone, language, and pacing, and how to write love scenes that capture mood and still advance the story.
Join us on Sunday at 7pmEST/4pmPST on the #RWchat hashtag.
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Hook, hook, hook! Not as in Captain Hook but not too far from it. We have to hook readers with our story, but how do we do it? From the blurb to page one to page fifty, our job is to hook the romance reader into opening the book and then turning the page again and again.
Come talk with us about what hooks have worked for you or what trouble you’re having with hooks. Maybe we’ll uncover the secret of luring the reader hook, line and sinker.
See you Sunday!
Thanks for an awesome chat on Voice tonight. Everyone had lots to say! (Pun intended :))
Next week we’re delving into something dark and terrible, something that every writer has experienced: What do you do when you’re totally hating on what you’re writing? Or are you the kind of writer this never happens to? (If so, please come tell us your secret!)
But if you’re like so many of us there are days, hours, weeks, months, where what’s happening in your current WIP just…looks like something you’d rather send to the scrap pile than let someone else read it. What do you do? How do you get through it?
Come with your questions, come with your woes, but most importantly, come to chat.
See you next Sunday!
Today, we talked about our characters, how we develop them, how we relate to them, and how we keep them unique.
Next week, we’re going to tackle the illusive topic of VOICE. What is it? Why is it so important? We hear endlessly from editors and agents how they look for it, but how do we do it? Come share your unique “voice” on your process, and bring your questions too!
Which isn’t really a process at all, or…is it? This week on #RWChat we’ll discuss pantsing, or writing a novel “by the seat of your pants” without plotting or outlining.
Have you ever done “pantsing”? Are you a strict plotter? Are there any benefits to pantsing, or is plotting the better way to go? Does romance writing lend itself to one more than the other? Join us with your comments and questions, or just come to lurk.
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See you on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. EST.
#RWchat is a weekly Twitter chat for romance and women’s fiction writers. We gather every Sunday evening to discuss writing process, craft, promo, and industry. It’s a fun, informal environment, and a great way to meet other writers in the genre.
Our next chat is March 27th, 4pm PST | 7pm EST. We’ll discuss writing Act 3 – black moment, climax, and resolution.
If you’ve spent time researching how to craft a compelling query, you may have noticed most of the good examples end on a cliff-hanger to generate hook. Will he overcome his past? Will she finally learn to trust? Unfortunately, we already know they will. That is the nature of the Happily Ever After. This #RWChat focused on how best to catch the interest of agents and editors when everyone already knows how it’s going to end.
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Kim Lionetti@BookEndsKimAfter starting her career at Berkley Publishing, Kim Lionetti left her position as Senior Editor to join BookEnds in March 2004. As an agent, she still enjoys using her editorial skills to help authors shape their work into more marketable products and guiding them to see their writing as part of the “bigger picture. Kim’s obsession with books began in middle school when she was introduced to her grandmother’s collection of gothic romances by Phyllis Whitney, Victoria Holt, and Mary Stewart. To this day, Kim harbors a soft spot for dark, tortured heroes, but also enjoys a good romantic comedy. A member of AAR, Kim is looking for fresh voices and compelling storytelling. Her areas of interest are historical and contemporary romance, women’s fiction, cozy mysteries, and contemporary new adult fiction and young adult fiction (except fantasy or sci-fi). Originally from Pennsylvania, Kim currently resides in New Jersey with her son, daughter, cat, two guinea pigs, and very patient husband, who puts up with her crushes on Mr. Darcy, Eric Northman, blind dukes, and Ryan Gosling. You can contact her directly at KLsubmissions@bookends-inc.com and see her in person at the 2015 RWA National Conference in New York or the 2015 Malice Domestic Convention in Bethesda. |
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Ava Jae@Ava_JaeAva Jae is a YA and NA writer, an Assistant Editor at Entangled Publishing, and is represented by Louise Fury of The Bent Agency. Her YA Sci-Fi debut, BEYOND THE RED, is releasing Spring 2016 from Sky Pony Press. When she’s not writing about kissing, superpowers, explosions, and aliens, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, nerding out over the latest X-Men news, or hanging out on her blog, twitter, Facebook, tumblr, Goodreads, Instagram, or YouTube channel. |
Twitter is a great big open platform. Knowing what you should, shouldn’t, and can be doing on it can be daunting. Rachel Miller and Brenda Drake — two twitter powerhouses who have taken the sales and publishing worlds by storm — answered questions on how to leverage twitter for your career without feeling like a book-link megaphone.
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Rachel Miller@rachelloumillerHost of #SBizHour, Excellence Officer at Broadsuite Media Group, Chief Listener at Nimble. Rachel is an industry leader in influence marketing with close to a decade of experience building strong brand communities through social media. |
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Brenda Drake@brendadrakeBrenda Drake grew up the youngest of three children, an Air Force brat, and the continual new kid at school. She hosts workshops and contests such as Pitch Wars and Pitch Madness on her blog, and holds Twitter pitch parties on the hashtag, #PitMad. When she’s not writing or hanging out with her family, she haunts libraries, bookstores, and coffee shops, or reads someplace quiet and not at all exotic (much to her disappointment). She’s represented by Peter Knapp at Park Literary. Look for her upcoming novel from Entangled Teen LIBRARY JUMPERS, releasing January, 2016. |
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