November 14th Meeting
Virginia Romance Writers Proudly Welcomes
Bestselling Author Mary Buckham
Saturday, November 14, 2015
9am to 4:30pm
Featherstone Professional Center
1807 Huguenot Road, Suite 108
Midlothian, VA 23113
Please note the following times as they are different from our normal monthly schedule!
The doors will open at 8:00 AM. The standard business meeting starts at 8:30 AM. The workshop will be being promptly at 9:00 AM. Advanced registration is required for everyone. It’s free for current members of Virginia Romance Writers and $10 for non-members. Click the button below.
All attendees click here to register for the event
There are several local restaurants in the area that serve lunch. Due to the size of the group and time constraints, individuals will be on their own for lunch. Please feel free to click this link to restaurants in the immediate vicinity to plan ahead: Google Map for Restaurants Nearby
Here are the four amazing workshops she’ll provide information on the following topics:
ACTIVE SETTINGS: For All Fiction Genres
Give your setting an active role in your story. Use Deep POV to spin boring descriptions into engaging prose. Find out if you’re writing passive – or active setting and if you are maximizing the setting possibilities in YOUR story. Also discover:
• How does setting impact your story?
• What is the difference between active and passive setting?
• What exactly is setting in a story?
• How can setting show characterization?
• How can setting impact your conflict…both internal and external?
• What does a reader need from a setting vs. what they don’t need?
PRIMAL BRANDING: 8 Elements That Take YOUR Brand to a whole new level
What Makes You Buy One Book [or Product] Over Another and What this means for Authors -Examining the 7 codes of primal branding and how they impact how we all choose a book, where we eat or what we buy. You’ll never look at branding the same way. You’ll also learn:
• What Nora Roberts, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Stephen King have in common.
• How to set target YOUR brand for your readers.
• What is meant by pagans or unbelievers.
• How key words can differentiate YOUR brand in a good way.
WRITING ACTIVE HOOKS or How Many Hooks Are Enough?
Whether you’re a plotter or a pantster (seat-of-pants writer), the simplest way to avoid a sagging middle is to understand how to continually build hooks into your story. So how many hooks are enough and where should you use them? Knowing the answer to that question can be the difference between a compelling story and one that drags. Based on Mary’s best-selling book series: WRITING ACTIVE HOOKS Book 1 and 2.
• Which types of hooks work best in different genres?
• Which are the 5 most universal hooks and why.
• What exactly is a hook and how do they work?
• Where should you place your hooks in a manuscript?
DOWN AND DIRTY WAYS TO CREATE STRONGER CHARACTERS:
Knowing certain things before the character steps into the story provides Checks and Balance on the characters as you write to assure your character stays “in character” and does in fact grow internally by the end.
• Understand how to create the same but different characters
• How to fashion characters in conflict
• How to move beyond your own stereotypes
• Why some characters resonate while others fall flat
USA Today bestselling author Mary Buckham learned to get into and out of trouble at a very early age. Time has added to her opportunities—detained by Israeli intelligence; strip-searched by a Greek border patrol while traveling with a priest, sneaking into Laos. When not personally avoiding nuisances caused by her insatiable curiosity she creates lots of disorder in her two Urban Fantasy series—Alex Noziak and Kelly McAllister. In her spare time Mary writes Writing Craft books including, Writing Active Setting, Writing Active Hooks and Break Into Fiction®co-authored with Dianna Love.
If Mary’s not hiding, find out more about her and her writing projects below.
You can visit Mary at any or all of these online locations:
Visit her website at – http://marybuckham.com
Subscribe to her newsletter at – http://marybuckham.com/email-sign-up/
Friend her on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/mary.buckham.author
Tweet her – @MaryBuckham
Join her street team at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MaryBuckhamBookNinjas/
Find her on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/Mary_Buckham
Again, everyone MUST register in advance for this meeting. To register, click here: