syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
Three act structure used in movies and books comes from plays has been used for more than 2,000 years also used in novels adapted for movies As authors, or playwrights or screenwriters, we need to follow this structure because readers – our audience – expects it. We deviate from it at our peril. Part of […]
The presenter of the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors Workshop, Alexandra Sokoloff, sent attendees an email last week asking us to prepare some homework prior to the workshop. The questions were as follows: 1. What genre are you writing in? Giving this is a romance convention, what subgenre are you writing in? 2. Make a list […]
Oh yeah the Penguin special event. This was a bit of a mystery, we weren’t sure what kind of event this was. Well, in a very interesting development, Penguin announced it’s new digital imprint, Destiny Romance. It is going to have a strong Australian author focus apparently – there are 5 Australian authors in the […]
Finished packing last night (this morning) at about 1am, and had to be up at 6 so didn’t get a lot of sleep. Left home at 6.30am to get to the airport in time for my check in and 9am flight. Thought that I would have room in my bags for all the books and […]
Next was actually the Panel session: the Next 20 Years, which I posted at the time. And finally there was the last Plenary by Jane Porter. This was fun, and at times quite moving. Jane read excerpts of the rejection letters she got for 14 books over a 17 year period. During this time there […]
Marion Lennox, a former university academic, and writer of more than 90 published romances, gave a very entertaining talk on what she has learned as a writer. – sex is fun – snakes don’t necessarily replace underpants (that was an editor’s suggestion in one of her early novels!) – your editor is not your friend […]
I did switch to this session by Bob Mayer after all, and I’m glad I did as it was very informative, even if I don’t have anything ready to publish right now. At least it has made me more aware of what options are available. There is a lot of information here under the cut, […]
A good crafting session presented by Lisa Heidke. Motivation: If you don’t have any words coming, then research / work on setting. At least that is progressing the story. You might come up with inspiration which helps you to get writing again. Sometimes you might just need to step away from the digital world – […]
What publishers are looking for. This is where all the ‘literary’ publishers had to admit they are chasing after the Romance dollars. Except they didn’t really want to admit they were after anything so unliterary as money, and most could still barely bring themselves to use the word ‘romance’ even on the final day of […]
Presented by Lucy Gilmour, Editor at Mills and Boon UK. This was part of the Sunday plenary session, following on from the Susan Wiggs session. I had intended to post it earlier but due to computer issues and also putting my notes in a ‘safe’ place, I am only just getting around to it Lucy […]