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RWA Annual Conference
2008 RWA Conference Workshop Handouts
Click on a link below to download the handout for a specific workshop. Please note that a printed handout booklet will not be available onsite at the conference.
Download all the 2008 RWA Conference Workshop Handouts
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| Workshops |
| 10 Things We Love About Writing YA Romance |
| A Place to Hang Your Scenes: Three-Act Structure for Novels |
| A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing the Fiction Synopsis |
| Advanced Tools of the Trade |
| Arc of the Trilogy: Why They Need to Read the Next Book |
| Bad Boys and Naughty Girls |
| Beyond Brainstorming: Stirring Stories in the Creative Cauldron |
| Bigger Than Botox: When Your Book Needs More Than a Face-lift |
| Building Buzz in YA |
| Building Characters From The Head Down |
| Confessions of Series Killers: Weathering Line Closings and Other Career Changes |
| Creating a Web Presence |
| DH101: Or How to Stay Married and Continue Writing |
| Dialogue: Writing Between the Lines |
| Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Rules for Breaking and Making It |
| Doddering Butlers, Pert Housemaids, and Faithful Retainers: Busting the Servant Myths |
| Down and Dirty: Media Training that Works |
| Emotion, Emotion, Emotion: Writing Romance with Global Appeal |
| Fat-Free Writing or How to Eliminate Wordiness in 10 Easy Steps |
| First Year on the Job: From 'The Call' to Publication |
| From the Cinema to The CW: Using Pop Culture in Your Young Adult Novel |
| Genre Bending: Insanity or Marketing Genius? Writing in Multiple Genres in Today's Market |
| Ghosts, Ghouls, and Vampires, and Things That Go Bump in the Night |
| Gossip Girls |
| Got Problems? We’ve Got Solutions! |
| His Brain/Her Brain |
| Honing Your Pitch: Making The Most Of Your 10 Minutes |
| How to Be a Trained Extrovert |
| How to Layer and Texture Your Novel For High Impact |
| How to Make a Living Writing Romance Novels |
| If You Give It They Will Come: Workshops that Wow! |
| Improv Techniques for Writers |
| Instant Seduction: How to Write Great First Chapters |
| It's All About Me, How to Write Successfully in First Person |
| It's My Process and I'll Cry If I Want To |
| Layering the Story Concept |
| Legal Issues for Writers: an Author's Guide to Protecting Your Rights and Avoiding Liability |
| Location, Location, Location: Setting as Character |
| Making a Splash, Even if You're Waiting to Sell - Promotion Secrets from the AT2 Sisterhood |
| Medical Facts & Fallacies in Popular Fiction |
| My Writing May Be Art...But My Kids Need Braces |
| Plotting 101: The Plotting Wheel |
| Power…Ours, Not Theirs! |
| Pump Up Your Productivity |
| Reject Me, Please! How to Be a Warrior Woman Writer |
| Romancing the Internet |
| Scene and Sequel |
| Secondary Characters: the Good, the Bad, and the Quirky |
| Secrets to Writing Better (and Sexier) Love Scenes |
| Self-Promotion: It Isn't Rocket Science |
| Seven Secrets for a Successful Novel |
| Show Me the Money! |
| Show, Don't Tell |
| Sociopaths vs. Psychopaths and the Serial Killer |
| Story Superglue: Make it Stick with Readers |
| Successful Rewriting: Paring Down and Fleshing Out |
| Taking the Mystery Out of Taxes |
| Talk To Yourself...Recognizing and Maintaining Career-making Boundaries in Publishing Relationships |
| The 21st Century Heroine: How Far She's Come And Where She's Heading |
| The Art of Voice |
| The Debutante Ball: How Six Debut Authors Partnered for National Publicity |
| The Down and Dirty Guide to Making Your Own Book Trailer Videos |
| The Great Agent Hunt |
| The Lessons of Firefly: Learning From the Works of Joss Whedon |
| The Power of Teamwork: How Finding the Right Collaborative Partner Can Lead To Career Success |
| The Secret Handshake For Writing a Successful Series |
| The Stairway to Plot Heaven: How Plotting with Other Writers Can Change Your Life Forever! |
| Theft of Creative Property |
| Thinking Outside the Book: Ten Ways to Get Published Now |
| Three Ways to Make Yourself Irresistible to Agents and Publishers |
| Tracking Trends, Fording The Future |
| Voice: What Are They Talking About? |
| Writing for the Historical Market |
| Writing Romantic Suspense: Some Basic Stuff |
| Writing the Best Seller: Six Magic Words |
| Writing the Hot Historical |
| Writing the Unputdownable Novel |
| Writing to a Concept: Taking a Publisher’s Idea and Making It Your Own |
| Writing With Passion! |
| Writing--and Selling--Crossover Fiction |
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© 2009 Romance Writers of America, Inc.
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