Workshops
Copy Editing 101 — Members Only Workshop with Erika MacNeil
Taylor Funeral Home Newmarket 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, CanadaThis workshop provides hands-on experience doing copy edit on a potential manuscript submission. Participants will bring in 3-5 pieces that are ready for editing. The workshop leader will demonstrate copy edit on their own work using an LCD projector and Google Docs. Writers will bring their own laptops and are invited to have their work projected on the screen to be edited collaboratively with the group. We will examine submission guidelines and formatting options.
Find Your Voice — Members Only Workshop with Erika MacNeil
Taylor Funeral Home Newmarket 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, CanadaYou asked for it, you got it! WCYR is offering this special members-only workshop in real life at Taylor's in Newmarket facilitated by WCYR's own, Erika MacNeil. This interactive workshop is designed for writers who wish to develop their public speaking and oratory skills in order to bring dynamic and expressive value to their writing when reading it aloud.
Upping the Ante: Increasing Tension and Suspense with Bruce A. Hanson (a.k.a. Robert Rime)
Newmarket - location TBAIs it time to up your ante? In this workshop, Bruce will help us to discover why we need tension and suspense in all genres of fiction. We will learn about twenty techniques for pulling the reader into our pages and will use some of these techniques in writing activities.
The Image/Moment with Sue Reynolds- Members Only Event
Taylor Funeral Home Newmarket 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, CanadaThe Image/Moment is a sure-fire technique to calibrate readerly anxiety and tension in fiction, creative non-fiction or even poetry. The Image Moment (a single element of Jack Grapes’ METHOD WRITING) is a stunningly effective and reliable way to manage the pacing of psychological tension for your reader. Experiment with and experience the effects of this incredible technique in this 2 hour workshop.
Return of the Plot Bunny with MJ Moores- A Members Only Workshop
Taylor Funeral Home Newmarket 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, CanadaDid you miss the Following Rabbit Holes and Chasing Plot Bunnies workshop? Did you attend the workshop and had hoped to join MJ Moores for another session? Is this the first you’re hearing of a chance to work your own story issues? Do you recall us saying that membership has perks? The plot bunny is back by popular demand.