Writing inspiration

Does your writing need a boost? Registration is still open

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For Write, Rewrite, Repeat

February 20, 2016

Tabor Space, Portland, Oregon

Boost your writing with a one-day conference designed to take your writing to the next step,  especially if your manuscripts are languishing or you’re stuck on some step in your revisions.

boost
bo͞ost/
verb
  1. 1.
    help or encourage (something) to increase or improve.
    “a range of measures to boost tourism”
    synonyms: improve, raise, uplift, increase, enhance, encourage, heighten, help,promote, foster, stimulate, invigorate, revitalize;

    informalbuck up
    “he phoned to boost her spirits”
    informalhike, bump up
    “they used advertising to boost sales”
noun
  1. 1.
    a source of help or encouragement leading to increase or improvement.
    “the cut in interest rates will give a further boost to the economy”
    synonyms: uplift, lift, spur, encouragement, help, inspiration, stimulus, pick-me-up;

    informalshot in the arm
    “a boost to one’s morale”

 

Registration is now open!

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red colored pencil shaving, flower shapedRegistration is now open for Write, Rewrite, Repeat on February 20.

Place: 5441 S.E. Belmont, Portland, Oregon

Please check out the schedule (9-5)  because I know you’ll love the line-up for 2016.

$99 includes lunch, keynote, and beverages

You’re going to find advice and inspiration for persisting, strategizing, shaping a first draft, fixing a second draft, editing, and thinking like a marketer. All in one day. What an opportunity.

Click on the contact page and get started.

Pre-registration is required.

See you soon!

Fonda Lee keynotes at Write, Rewrite, Repeat

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Fonda Lee author photoThe Strategic Author 

A cursory glance at the number of writing conferences in the country and the number of people who attend them each year will give you an idea of the staggering number of aspiring writers out there. Only a tiny percentage of those people will ever go on to publication. A smaller number will go on to be published multiple times, and an even smaller number yet will ever make a reasonable income as professional writers. Ultimately, the difference lies not in talent, work ethic, or connections, but in mindset, strategies, and habits. Fonda Lee shares observations gleaned and lessons learned in the formative early years of a writing career, leading up and after the publication of a debut novel.

 Fonda Lee spent a decade as a corporate strategist for Fortune 500 companies prior to becoming a science fiction and fantasy author. Her sci-fi novel Zeroboxer (Flux/Llwellyn) came out in 2015; she was named the Willamette Writers Up and Coming Award winner that year. Fonda’s second novel releases from Scholastic in early 2017. Zeroboxer-final-cover-193x300 (1)

Registration opens January 5, 2016

Write, Edit, Repeat on February 20, 2016

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calendar--AztecPlease mark your calendars for another all-day, chock-full-of-inspiration writing conference.

February 20, 2016

Tabor Space, Portland, Oregon

Stay tuned for details because I’ve got a wonderful lineup in the works.

Meanwhile, keep writing, keep dreaming, have heart

Carl Sagan on the magic of books:

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book stack edges“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

Question is: What magic are you sending out into the world?