Showing posts with label Kendra Bonnett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kendra Bonnett. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Tuesday Tidbit: Excellent resources for your memoir’s opening


Many thanks to Pamela Jane Bell, Matilda Butler, and Kendra Bonnett for hosting the First Paragraph Contest over at Women’s Memoirs, and for honoring me with a Silver award.

We all can benefit from studying those paragraphs, so click over to last week's Silver winners, and this week’s Gold winners, just announced today. You’ll learn good tips for crafting your own smashing first paragraph.



P.S. I’ve changed my working title to Winded and Scruffy and Brimming with Tales.




Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Tuesday Tidbit: First Paragraph contest winners

Here’s today’s Tuesday Tidbit,
your 15 seconds of inspiration:

Do you remember the First Paragraph contest over at Women’s Memoirs? Pamela Jane Bell, Kendra Bonnett, and Matilda Butler invited us to submit one paragraph—an opening paragraph—for their contest.

Did you enter the contest? I hope so! I did.

This morning I was pleased to see my entry listed as one of the Silver Winners. (Click on Silver Winners to read it.)

At that link you’ll find a list of the other Silver Winners and their paragraphs, and you’ll see what worked and what didn’t. Studying those entries, and reading Pamela’s feedback, helped me grow as a writer, and you’ll find the reading of them informative, too.


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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Tuesday Tidbit: A writing contest over at Women’s Memoirs

This week’s 15 seconds of inspiration might take you 30 seconds,
but it’ll be worth your time: Here’s a fun opportunity!

At Women’s Memoirs, Pamela Jane Bell, Kendra Bonnett, and Matilda Butler have announced a contest for both women and men(If you’re a man and you doubt whether you can enter, read the comments at that link.)

They invite you to submit one paragraph—your opening paragraph—for their current contest. Entries, due September 3, should be around 150 words. Click here to learn more, and be sure to check out those prizes

If the thought of entering a contest makes you want to run the opposite direction, click here for a pep talk.

A book’s opening is the most important part to write well: From sentence one, your job is catch your readers’ attention, draw them in, and entice them to keep reading. 

Thursday I’ll share tips on editing, rewriting, and making that paragraph sparkle. For now, look over your manuscripts (you have a number of them in rough draft, right?) and select one to polish for the contest.

Be sure to come back Thursday!




Wednesday, January 4, 2012

An opportunity for you: Writing Fast, Writing Deep, starting January 9





2012 is The Year of The Memoir! That’s what Linda Joy Myers* and Kathleen Pooler* have proclaimed, and I enthusiastically join their cause.


Let’s make 2012 the year you seriously tackle writing your memoir!


For some of you, “seriously tackling” means just getting started.


For others, “seriously tackling” means finishing your memoir!


Recently Chris Connolly wrote about completing his memoir:


"Finishing my memoir was one of the coolest things I ever did. The day I wrote 'The end' at the end of a book was up there with my wedding and the births of my sons. Seriously. I joke a lot, but that's not a joke. It was the accomplishment of something I'd literally wanted to do since I first started having sentient thoughts....

"I typed 'The end' at the end of an actual book. The second I wrote those words I knew the whole process had been worth it...."*


Picture this: Some day you, too, can type "The end."


With that in mind, here’s a great opportunity for you: Writing Fast, Writing Deep, an online writing class offered by Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler from Women’s Memoirs blog.*


Offered through Story Circle Network,* the three-week class starts January 9.


Kendra and Matilda write this about Writing Fast, Writing Deep:


"There are no class times for this learning experience so you can work it into your personal schedule.... Create more memorable characters, capture a fuller range of emotion, make dialogue carry part of your story, write with vivid detail . . . do it all AND do it faster than you ever thought possible. Using our 'Writing Alchemy, Quick Start' method you'll have a strategy that will start you on the path to being the best writer you can be."


January 9 is just a few days away! Sign up today using this link: http://storycircleonlineclasses.or/classes/butler_bonnett.winter2012.php


 
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*Resources and links
Chris Connolly,

Writing Fast, Writing Deep,

Women’s Memoirs,

Dr. Linda Joy Myers and National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW),

Kathleen Pooler’s blog,