Tri-Valley Writers takes a brief summer hiatus during the months of July and August. The Board of Directors will be busy planning for a terrific 2019-2020 term. Monthly meetings will resume in September. Critique groups, social media group, Open Mic, and Pull up a Chair and Write continue to meet during the summer, so please forge …
Barbara Flores‘ memoir, Separated Acting Badly: For the Love of Food, A Man, and Me, is now available on Amazon (Kindle and paperback). Barbara’s funny, and ultimately family-affirming book chronicles the transition from marriage to divorce, and what she learned from herself and her well-meaning friends. Alice Kight‘s poem “Beloved Eyewitness” won first place in …
Nina Schuyler, author of The Translator, will discuss “How to Write Stunning Sentences” as Tri-Valley Writers June speaker. Some of what attendees will learn includes: What sentences do you craft to capture anxiety? Thought? A reminiscent narrator? What kind of sentence creates a feeling of euphoria? Of exhaustion? The style of the sentence—the diction, imagery, …
Nina Schuyler, Author of The Translator, June 15, 2019 Read More »
My husband recently acquired permission to submit articles to Wikipedia. To be able to do this, you have to work your way through Wikipedia’s vetting process (click here to get started), which includes learning to make edits to existing articles. One straightforward and useful way to make edits is to add footnotes to articles where …
Just when I thought my biggest writing issue was making time to sit at the keyboard, I discovered a whole new problem. My latest novel is spiraling out of control so I decided to rework the outline. Mind you, this is the first novel I’ve tried to outline. I allowed the others to wander because …
Anne Manay released Unclean on February 19, 2019. Her new book is a sequel to her fantasy novel Hexborn, which she released in 2018. Vidhima Shetty was featured in The Pleasanton Weekly for her book An Adolescent’s Guide to ME/CFS.
When you write a memoir, you draw layers of challenge and skill: telling your story, having it reach the hearts of others, and managing the labyrinth of doubts and fears about consequences of revealing your personal truths. Linda Joy Myers will discuss key elements to unlocking your story in her topic, “The Magic of Memoir—Weaving Memory …
I attended a workshop dedicated to crafting sentences. We began with a discussion of sentence forms—simple, complex, compound, and complex-compound. Most instructors I’ve heard in the last ten years have focused on the simple sentence as the best solution to all writing problems. This class was led by a woman who rejected the idea of …
The Return of the Participial Phrase by Lani Longshore Read More »
Neva (Janie) Hodges’ first five pages of Against the Wall, her novel in progress, was a semifinalist in the Mount Hermon Writing Conference “Promising Beginnings” contest. Yvonne Carder, writing as Yvonne Brandenburg, published Pet Health Journal: A 6 Month Journal For Medications, Exams, & Healthy Living.
California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch is pleased to announce its third full-day writers conference featuring keynote speaker Robert Dugoni on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Dugoni is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestselling author as well as the winner of 2015 Nancy Pearl Award for fiction. He has twice been a finalist for …
TVW 3rd Writers Conference, Robert Dugoni, April 13, 2019 Read More »
