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In This Edition
WC Events
WCYR & WCDR List of Meetings
Upcoming Member Seminars, Partner Events, & Workshops
WC News
WCYR Feature Writer
Intro to Creative Writing Workshop
How to Pace Writing Workshop
Page Turners
Privacy
WCYR Opportunities
Opportunities at Large
Volunteer Opportunities
Celebrating Your Success
Announcements
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Holiday Social
Please join us on December 6 for a special Write-in event as we loosen the mental cobwebs through freewriting, use story prompts to poke the muse, and establish goals for the coming year.
Registration is free. Click the link below to register.
Workshop will take place Sunday, December 6th, 2020, from 1:30 - 4:30 pm via Zoom.
CLICK HERE to register
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The Power of Practice
Writing practice, like practising the piano, brings our skill levels up and teaches us attention to detail but it also gives us confidence, gets rid of writer’s block, and makes our writing richer by accessing areas of our brain that are often locked down.
Registration is free, but space is limited! Click the link below to register.
Workshop will take place Thursday, November 26th, 2020, from 7:00 - 9:00 pm via Zoom.
CLICK HERE to register
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- Your Poetry Toolbox with James Dewar - January 10th, 2021
- 20 Social Media Superchargers with Anne MacLachlan - March 14th, 2021
- Marketing Yourself and Your Work with MJ Moores - March 25th, 2021
For more information or to register, please see our website.
- 2020: MNM December - Graphic Novels with Kathleen Gros - December 12th, 2020
- Master Class: Making a Scene - January 1st, 2021
- 2021: MNM January - Details coming soon - January 9th, 2021
For more information, please see their website.
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Intro to Creative Writing Workshop Webinar – “Courting the Muse”
Are you interested in trying writing? Need a way back into your writing that’s been stalled?
Whether you are an experienced writer or just starting this workshop will create an atmosphere of exploration and validation in bringing your words to the page.
A writer is someone who writes and the Intro to Creative Writing workshop, based on the Amherst Writers and Artists method, ensures all writers are valued and affirmed in a supportive community. Come put your voice on the page and share the joy of writing with others! We will write together to prompts, share our fresh writing aloud (always optional) and receive supportive feedback on what was strong.
Facilitated by WCYR member Carol Teal.
InkLinks.ca for the East Gwillimbury Public Library. Tuesday, November 24, 6 -7 pm
Email rbach@egpl.ca to register.
 Facilitated by WCYR member Kim McDougall for
the Richmond Hill Public Library.
Saturday, November 21, 12 – 2 pm
Register on the Richmond Hill Public Library website:
https://www.rhpl.ca/whats-on/calendar-of-events/creative-writing-workshop-pacing-your-story
Pacing is the number one element that affects how your reader reacts to your story. It’s the way you, the author, manipulate the reader’s emotions. Even scene-by-scene you can learn to make choices that speed up or slow down the reading. Learn to leave your readers breathless in action scenes or emotionally wrung out in sensitive romantic scenes by judicious use of dialogue, description, transitions, showing vs. telling, and deep POV.
Blog series by Val Tobin
Check out an anonymous, yet famous, first page and vote on whether you'd turn the page!
It's an opportunity to check out a new author you don't know, a book by a favourite author you haven't read yet, or a whole new experience!
Click HERE to read the page turner.
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WCYR Member Workshop Proposals:
The WCYR Board is seeking proposals from Members to present a 1-2 hour workshop during our 2020-2021 season.
Please contact Allison Hannah at meetings@wcyork.ca
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Looking for a Critique Group?
WCYR’s Critique Group Organizer, Rae Keen, can help you connect with other writers in York Region.
Contact Rae at rae.keen@sympatico.ca
Help Build WCYR’s Partnership with Libraries
We’re looking for WCYR members to lead online seminars in partnership with libraries in York Region.
For this volunteer option, you’ll get the word out about the WCYR and yourself, gain experience in presenting online, and land a solid resume credit. If you’re published, you can tell participants about your books.
If you’d like to share your insights about the craft or journey of writing, please consider this opportunity.
You don’t need to be published to participate.
For details, please contact Rae Keen, Library Liaison, at rae.keen@sympatico.ca .
Workshop Webinar for Children (ages 8-11): A Storytelling and an Exploration of How We Arrive at Creativity
Kindle your creativity. Light a fire within your imagination. Look at all things with an open mind and see from a different perspective.
How do you that? Let your mind and your ideas flow -- and you practice. Every day you write a story about something you have discovered.
To make new discoveries, you look deeper and when you do you will see hidden there a treasure trove of ideas.
WCYR member, Paul Yanuziello, facilitates this children’s workshop for the East Gwillimbury Public Library. Thursday, November 19, 4:30 – 5:30 pm.
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Contact chair@wcyork.ca to discuss your new role by clicking the button below!
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Who's had some success lately? The WCYR wants to know.
CLICK HERE and use the form to submit any and all of your successes so that we can celebrate them together.
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Do you have a writing-related event, publication, award, book launch, contest or workshop that you'd like to tell us about? Or perhaps you have a great idea for a workshop or a neat suggestion?
We'd love to hear from you.
Please send us your ideas to info@wcyork.ca.
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Upcoming Meeting
WCYR Writing Practice
with Vicki Pinkerton
How to Improve Your Writing and Your Creativity by Practicing Writing.
November 26th, 2020.
7:00-9:00pm
FREE Webinar
Location: Zoom
Reminder: Instructions for logging into Zoom will be sent the week before a meeting.
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Ray Twinney Recreation Complex
100 Eagle St W, Newmarket
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