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June 8, 2015
 

 


 

Blogging for Business?

 Sharing a Passion?

Building an Author Platform?



Blog Right with Jackie Wolven - June 13, 9-2

Part of our Build a Platform Series

See some of the many bloggers inspired by Jackie's last workshop:
Gary Guinn - Carmen Caldwell - Larry Campbell - Sandra & Carl - Val Gonzalez 
Alison Taylor-Brown
For more information or to register for Blogging
 
 
This Thursday, Eureka treasure
 June Westphal will talk about her long love affair with writing and the power of words to preserve.
 
Writers' Night Out welcomes anyone with an interest in writing.
Dinner begins at 5. Jessie will serve tacos.
From the Director . . .


 Stories that Might have Been


They pop into my head at the oddest times, like 2:30 a.m., when I hardly realize that I'm awake but suddenly, there's the story floating around. And the odd thing is, it's not my story. It's a story someone else needed to tell.

They're like ghosts, these unborn spirits of stories that should have been told, that needed to be told, that clambered in someone's head and heart for decades to be told.

  • There was the Dallas TV reporter who got the call from the man who had murdered his family. It should have been a powerful novel about a hot day in Dallas when the lives of three men intersected to change them all forever. It should have been a movie. "I've carried this around with me ever since," the reporter told me. "I need to write it to get it out."
  • There's the old man who pulled into our parking lot saying, "I need a writer." Verifiably, through his work with two U.S. presidents, he changed world history. But it's too late to get that story out of his head. If only he had written it down thirty years ago.
  • Or what about Isabella D'Este, one of the leading women of the Renaissance, a major cultural and political figure referred to as the "first lady of the world?" Why should an innkeeper in Eureka Springs feel so drawn to her and long to write about her? 

When I write, it always helps me to believe that the story exists before me. Even if it's fiction, I try not to think of it as something I am creating, but rather as a past event that I am reporting. I believe that our stories exist in the ether, waiting for us to reach up and grab them.

When we don't, because we're scared, or we're distracted by the Kardashians, our untold stories become sad, wan spirits, floating about to wake people up at 2:30.

Are you carrying a story? Make it live. Turn it from a wispy ghost to a vivid, high-def creature that will outlive you. Give it fangs to rip out a reader's heart. Give it wings to sweep across history.

Your story matters. Write it. Make it readable. That's why the Village Writing School exists.

 Finish a BOOK. Build a PLATFORM. Live the LIFE.

Village Writers ~~ Stronger & Better Together

Click Here for the Complete Schedule & More Info on Any Workshop
   Pub Ops On Writing     
 
In a cool project to reproduce 19th-century Sixpenny Shockers,

Gothic Blue Books is looking for 

short horror set in monasteries, castles, hotels, or B&B's.
 
 
   B o o k s On Writing        In Our Library
 
The Plot Whisperer Workbook by Martha Alderson
Need help with plotting?
Character development, action, beginning, ending, this book takes you step-by-step with exercises that will help you develop a winning story.
-- Nancy Harris, VWS Librarian
   W e b  On Writing    

What to get paid for sharing what you know?
   Q u o t e s On Writing     

YOU MIGHT BE A WRITER IF . . .
 

You're on such a roll with the WIP that you've forgotten a "real" world exists (including laundry). You're down to wearing your husband's socks and he's either going commando or is forced to wear that thong given to him on his 40th birthday as a joke gift. The kids? Hell, they went feral a week ago.          

 --Kristen Lamb

Meet a Village Writer
Cris Senseman

Cris Senseman sent us this picture from Alaska. A retired attorney and one of our first VWS board members, Cris has a lot of serious writing in the works, but lately she's hatched a plot for murder on a cruise ship. That would be as much fun as a husky puppy.

Eureka Springs.
Maumellel/Little Rock
Rogers/Bentonville
Fayetteville
 


Our Awesome 
Newly Reformatted Workbooks 


Thanks to
Alice French for the layout and
Kate Wicker for the cool covers.




 
Jackie Wolven will speak at Cornerstone Bank on Wednesday, June 10 at 9 am about Instagram. This is a free event.

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Save the Date!

Organizations need resources to survive or grow. New ideas take money.

People in organizations know that there are resources "out there" they might be able to get - but how? " 
 


Mike McIntyre, a veteran proposal writer, will teach his POWER proposal system on Tuesday, August 11, 9-4. 
The Little Free Library could use some children's books.
 
 

Email Alison to leave them in Rogers/Bentonville.
 
Email Jessie to drop them at the Village Writing School in Eureka Springs.
On the Radio this Week


Nancy Grosella
Mackenzie Doss
Shirley Lamberson
Gail Larimer


Click HERE to listen.

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June 10, Wed - Instagram with Jackie Wolven - 9 am (Eureka           Springs/Cornerstone Bank) Free Event

June 11, Thur - Writers' Night Out - 5-7 (Eureka Springs)

June 13, Sat - Blogging - 9-2 (Rogers/Bentonville)

July 11, SatThe Word and The Sentence (Rogers/Bentonville)

July 25, Sat - Social Media (Rogers/Bentonville)

August 1, SatSubtext, High Events, Closing  (Rogers/Bentonville)

August 11, Tue - POWER Proposals with Mike McIntyre (Eureka Springs)

August 22, Sat - Branding (Rogers/Bentonville)

September 5, Sat - Self-Editing (Rogers/Bentonville)


Workshops are from 10-4 with an hour for lunch.
Fee $45 each with a 10% discount if the whole program is paid in advance. 

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