Correction:Maumelle Publishing Series will be on Tuesday nights (not Monday as we said last week).
Workshops will be every Tuesday beginning on
October 6 and running through November 17
6:00-8:00 pm.
Topics covered will include: Publishing Options, their Advantages & Disadvantages • How Publishers Choose • Agents • Your Right Market • Self-Publishing • Subsidy/Co-op • Run-on-Demand • Small Presses • "Traditional" Publishing • How to use Catalogues & Published Market Reports to Your Advantage • Writer's Resume • Query Letters • Manuscript Preparation • Understanding Your Contract • Legal & Aesthetic Negotiations • Legal & Publishing Vocabulary • Networking in the Industry & More. . .
If you live in Central Arkansas, this is your opportunity to
learn how to get that book into the world!
Thursday, October 7 5:00 p.m. Village Writing School (177 Huntsville Road)
Bring what you are working on for Open Mic Night at Writers' Night Out.
Rogers/Bentonville
TUESDAY, October 6 6:30 p.m.
Panera Bread
1320 SE Walton Blvd, Bentonville
We are excited to welcome Brad Volz, a professional marketer turned writer and communication consultant. His passion for helping others has grown into a thriving blog and new business.
The common themes are learning, helping people, sharing good ideas and earth stewardship. Visit his blog, Writing to Freedom, for the latest in stories that inspire and connect.
Brad's topic for his evening with us will be
Don't Hesitate, Just Start!
From the Director . . .
What We Have
Often, we seem to look at our writing with an emphasis on deprivation. I don't have any training, I'm too old, I don't have enough time.
So to counteract those negative feelings, let's focus today on what we do have.
We have a story. Every one of us has a story he would like to tell. What a great beginning that is!
We have passion for our story. Admit it. You love your characters, you're having a great time mapping the twists of that plot, you love the romance, adventure, and depth of your story, you're fascinated with the meaning of your own life that you've discovered through memoir.
We have opportunity. We do. We really do. Yes, we have to juggle some things and sacrifice some entertainment and ask our families to pitch in. But we can make time for our writing.
We have resources. Anyone can learn to write today. Of course, Village Writing School workshops are awesome and affordable, and our program is organized and complete. But there are books at your local library on writing craft. There are countless blogs and websites on the internet discussing every aspect of writing craft. You have no excuse not to be getting better as a writer.
We have community. We don't have to write for years in a vacuum. Through Writers' Night Out, we can come together to network, commiserate, and as my grandpa used to say, "air off." We can share our work and get ideas of what other writers are doing with their writing, platforms, and promotion. We can form small groups and individual friendships from the encounters we make at WNO.
Time, Passion, Opportunity, Resources, Community
We have it all!
Village Writers ~~ Stronger & Better Together
Gail Pierce Larimer
When You Come to the End of the Line,
Don’t Do This!
All done! You’ve just finished up the next Great American Novel, Short Story, Poem, Memoir (you fill in the blank). Your manuscript is proofed, copyedited and ready to go. Just one more once-over and you’ll be submitting online.
But wait a minute! What’s that thing at the end of the line on page 2? Is that a hyphen you’ve used to divide a word that was too long to fit on the line? Well, if it is, it’s a definite no-no!
When you are preparing a manuscript for submission, never divide a word by hyphenation simply because it doesn’t fit well at the end of your line. In fact, it’s best to disable the automatic hyphenation function in your word processing software. Also, you must not manually insert a hyphen to break up a long word, even if that word is a lengthy website or email address!
Avoiding word division by hyphenation can result in an awkwardly long line of type and sometimes this will yield an extreme ragged right margin. Doesn’t matter. Do not hyphenate the word that causes the problem.
In your manuscript, the only hyphens that should appear are those contained in certain compound words such as writer-editor, mass-produced, moth-eaten and so on. In such cases it is permissible to end a line with the hyphen.
See CMS: Formatting, Paragraph 2.12. For more general rules relating to word division and hyphenation (excluding preparation of a manuscript for submission), see Word Division, Paragraphs 7.31-43.
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
- Anton Chekhov
Eureka Springs
Maumelle/Little Rock
Rogers/Bentonville
Fayetteville
Save the Date!
Dana Reynolds
There is no reason to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to
get your book in print.
You can do it all yourself for $0. Really.
The first half of this workshop shows you how. During the second half, you’ll do it yourself, or assist other participants, and see how do-able it is to be your own publisher.
November 7 10 am - 4 pm Eureka Springs: The Village Writing School
The MISSION of the Village Writing School is to foster a vibrant literary community in Arkansas and
to provide resources for ALL writers who seek to improve their craft.
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WE GROW THROUGH YOUR SUPPORT
THANK YOU TO OUR 2015 FRIENDS: David Auernheimer, Tandy Belt, Wendy and David Carlisle, Jean Elderwind,Crow Evans, Alice French, Valerie Fondetti, Linda Harrison-Gracia, John & Nancy Grosella, Gary Guinn,Nancy Harris, Kate Lacy, Shirley Lamberson, Gail Pierce Larimer, Judith McCartan, Richard Schoe, Shiva Shanti, Greg Sherar, Cris Senseman, Ken and Debbie Smith,
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