Take a 3-hour MASTER CLASS- TAKE AN AFFORDABLE MASTER CLASS IN WRITING AND START YOUR YEAR OFF WRITE! By Laurie McLean, Director, San Francisco Writers Conference If you’ve ever wanted to concentrate on one problematic area of your writing career—be it brand building, pacing/tension, character development, article writing, memoir, pitching, self-publishing, website building, or visualizing
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How to make this your Best Writers Conference Ever, “The End is Where You Begin”
By Lissa Provost The Heroes Journey through the San Francisco Writers Conference You’ve just typed “The End” on your Magnum Opus, the manuscript you’ve been working on for years. Your heart and soul and thousands of hours of work are backed up on a flash drive that fits on a keychain, and on the cloud,
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Valentines Day in San Francisco, at the SFWC
Valentines Day in San Francisco is extra special, but when it falls on a Friday you’d better have a reservation if you want to eat out anywhere. Besides calling now to make a reservation at that place you’ve always wanted to try while you’re in The City, there are three great options we recommend:
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The Poetry Summit at SFWC is for Publishing (And you should be publishing your poetry!)
By Lissa Provost California, and the San Francisco Bay Area especially, is a hotbed for poetry activity. Every town has a Poet Laureate and every county and region, too. There are workshops, festivals, readings, and open mics in communities from border to border. We are amazed and proud of what Litquake does for poets in
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Are you a VISUAL writer? Hollywood Summit
By Cali Gilbert Do you write with images in your head? Do you see your characters playing out roles in your story? Have your friends told you your story or book would make a great movie? Well then you’re in the right place. Back in 2011 I experienced the most devastating year of my life.
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The Word Count Conundrum- A Guide to Word Count for Writers
by Jill Marr, Agent, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency If you are just learning a new craft, such as knitting, you’d certainly study up on the basic skills and tools you would need in order to knit well–for instance the difference between knitting and purling, getting to know patterned stitches, you’ll want to become familiar with
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Using Self-Hypnosis as a Writing Tool!
Happy New Year from 2020 SFWC presenter Suzette Martinez Standring! I look forward to presenting a new tool at the San Francisco Writers Conference to enliven and make writing more vivid: self-hypnosis. Wait. What? Yes, self-hypnosis can be a powerful tool for writing creativity. (This program is separate from my Master’s Class on Column Writing.) Writers
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Happy New Year! Treat yourself to the San Francisco Writers Conference 2020
Happy Holiday Season! From the SFWC Team
Time to Polish your Prose and Enter the San Francisco Writing Contest!
Time to Polish your Prose and Enter the San Francisco Writing Contest! Each year hundreds of writers spend a bit of extra effort over the holidays to polish the first 1,500 words of a short story, article, novel, nonfiction book, flash fiction, or other piece of writing and enter it into the prestigious San Francisco
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