Upcoming Redwood Writer Events For a full listing of Redwood Writers' events, please see Our events.
Reserve January 23, January 30 and February 6, 2010 for the Redwood Writers Editing Workshops!
Saturday, January 23, 2010 - Write Tight(ly)
10-10:50 Overview: What is tight writing? Why is it important? How can we achieve this? Examples.
Presenter: Jeanne Miller
11:10-12:30 Write Tight(ly) workshop - Brief review of tight writing and how to achieve it.
Workshop/exercises. Presenter: Jean Hegland
Saturday, January 30, 2010 Create Tension
10:00-10:50 Overview: Examples of tension. Why is it important? How can we achieve tension?
Presenter: Ransom Stephens
11:10-12:30 Create tension workshop
Brief review of tension and how to create.
Workshop/exercises on creating tension.
Presenter: Stefanie Freele
Saturday, February 6, 2010
End it Right
10:00-10:50
Overview: What is the right place to end? Not too soon or
too late. Why is this important? Examples of
of endings.
Presenter: Ana Manwaring
11:10-12:30
End it Right workshop -
Brief review of right places/ways to end
Workshop/exercises on ending a story.
Presenter: Becca Lawton
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February 15 Poetry Contest Submission Deadline
February 21 Redwood Writers Meeting 2:30-5 PM at the Flamingo Conference Resort & Spa • Courtyard Room #1 • 2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405 • Phone: (707) 545-8530 For a map, click here.
We ask for a small fee of $5 from members and $8 from non-members to cover the costs of speaker fees and light refreshments.
Our speaker will be Joe Quirk. In high school, Joe Quirk was known for four things: getting detention for being a smart-ass, getting A’s in biology, being horny, and having a name like Quirk. He decided to combine these four talents in his second book, which has something to do with sperm. Now he gets paid to be a smart-ass biologist, and nobody gives him a wedgie.
Joe Quirk is launching a campaign to get the science of relationships out of the science aisle and into the relationships aisle of the book store. He lectures about the biology of relationships to anyone who can’t give him detention. In some photographs it looks like he has a sperm burrowing into his head.
Quirk is also a bestselling novelist. He is the author of The Ultimate Rush, an action thriller about rollerblading. He just finished his second novel, Exult, about hang gliders who live out the Icarus myth.
Ever prolific, Joe also completed his second smart-ass science book, Tools Are From Men, Talk Is From Women; Why Your Partner’s Brain is Weird.
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