WisRWA Calendar
2019
Mark your calendars for the 2019 Write Touch Conference April 5-7, 2019 at the Milwaukee Hyatt in beautiful downtown Milwaukee. The conference will feature Maya Rodale as keynote speaker, and Lisa Cron as one of the headliners.
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Meeting Times
2019
10-12:30 at Deb's Cafe, 1120 122nd St, Chippewa Falls, WI
Diversity in Writing
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2019
10 – 12:30 at Red Oak Writing Studio 11709 W Cleveland Ave. West Allis
Scene and Summary: The Balancing Act with Kim Suhr
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2019
11:30-3 at 1951 Restaurant, 1951 Bond Street, Green Bay, WI
How the Library Purchases Books and Other Interesting Librarian Info
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WisRWA Newsletter
Welcome
Founded in 1984, WisRWA is the Wisconsin chapter of the Romance Writers of America. We are a professional organization of romance authors, supporting both published and aspiring writers. Learn more…
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Combat Writer’s Block with an Idea Factory
If you’ve ever experienced the heaviness of writer’s block, you know you’ll never want to stare at a blank page, without an idea, ever again, period.
Let’s learn from the bad times and turn them into something good. Here are a few tips I use to build an idea factory, when writer’s block may hit again.
New Release Tuesday – January 2019
Congratulations to the following WisRWA members on their new releases this month.
Book Review Etiquette
It’s happened to every reader. You have the weekend off. Rain is pouring down. The coffee pot is sputtering, and those tantalizing smells seduce you to crawl under a blanket and pick out your next great read. So, you hop online, go to your favorite bookstore and start scanning those covers. One calls out to you, so you click, excited to see what it’s about. The blurb looks exciting, you’re ready to buy, but you decide to glance at all those reviews just a short scroll away. Five stars. Not bad! You read a few sentences in and… gasp! They just revealed the plot twist! Ruined the ending! Stole the joy you would have gotten from uncovering it yourself. The horror! Now that the plot is revealed before you even opened the first page, you back out and buy another book.
The Discipline of Writing and the Fear of Failure
As the new year begins, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. One of the toughest things about becoming a writer is discipline. We all know a book doesn’t write itself and no matter how much praying we do, the words don’t always come.
WisRWA author Olivia Rae shares her top 5 tips on how to finally finish a book.
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Entering the Fabulous Five Contest
From the prominent New York Times Best Selling author to the newbie who’s just begun their writing career, one of the scariest things you can tell a writer is that someone is going to judge their work. Sometimes just telling a writer that their work is going to be read sends them into conniption fits.
Write Touch Conference Speaker Profile: Maya Rodale
I’m tickled pink to meet Maya Rodale next April. So you can meet her too, get out your redsharpie and mark it on your calendar –
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How To Successfully Co-Write
Co-writing is not for everyone. Char Chaffin and I have been friends since 2011, when we both came on board Soul Mate Publishing with our debut novels. We got to know each other virtually, and by the time we met in person at our first romance conference—Atlanta in 2013—it was as if we’d known each other forever. Soon, we both became acquiring editors with Soul Mate, cementing an already strong friendship.
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