Writers and Editors
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EventsWashington Biography GroupNext regular meeting: Monday January 23, 2012, 7 to 8:45 pm Topic: How is the writing of a biography affected by whether the subject is living or dead? February meeting (date to be decided): we'll be talking about self-publishing: the ins and outs, ups and downs, pros and cons The WBG meets once a month, usually on a Monday from 7 to 8:45 pm at the Washington International School (Goodman Room, at back of main bldg.) 3100 Macomb St., NW Washington DC 20008 We meet in the Goodman Room (new name for the Terrace Room) in the main building. Members often bring a snack or drink to share. I (Pat) send out e-mail notices of the meeting dates and topics, which are also posted under “Events” on both Pat McNees’s website (www.patmcnees.com) and Writers and Editors (www.writersandeditors.com). Check out the website page about the Washington Biography Group (WBG). Go here for fuller instructions on where the WBG meets. In December Washington Biography Group celebrates its twenty-fifth year of monthly gatherings to talk about various aspects of biography and memoir writing. To be added to the e-mail list and receive meeting notices and Pat's e-letter about memoir and biography, send a message to Pat's WBG email: (spelled out to elude spammers: washingtonbookgroup at gmail dot com Convert that to traditional e-mail formula.) Occasionally parking is a slight problem, if the school is also holding an evening event. At one meeting someone came in and said the owner of an SUV had left its lights on. Marc responded, "This is not an SUV kind of group" and sure enough, it wasn't one of us (although there are SUVs among us). Topic for some later date: How do we determine our subject's world view? What are the dominant characteristics that shape what we think of them? Their religion? Where they grew up? What else? Pat McNees's Next Life Stories and Legacy Writing Workshops
Six Wednesday evenings, Jan. 11- Feb. 15, 2012 7:15–10:00 pm What will be written on your headstone? What will your obituary say? How will you be remembered, and what has your life meant? The goal in this nontraditional workshop of short personal writing is to capture your personal and family legacy for the next generation, the friends and family who will survive you. Knowing that you are writing not for publication but to set the record straight—in your own mind, as much as anything—may liberate you, allowing you to examine with candor your important life choices and experiences, achievements and mistakes, beliefs and convictions. Through a series of exercises designed to open a rich vein of personal material, you will begin the exploration and storytelling that may help you either develop a personal or family history or write a personal legacy letter to your survivors. No whining, no boasting, no name dropping: Just an honest examination of what went on in your life or your family, with an emphasis on fleshing out the characters and stories to be found there. This course, which grew out of the warm-up exercises for Pat's workshop on ethical wills, will encourage you to reminisce deeply: to mine your life (and family) experiences for personal stories, myths, themes, and values. Check out Pat's article on The Beneficial Effects of Life Story and Legacy Activities (first published in Geriatric Care Management Journal, Spring 2009). But hey -- young people benefit, too! Six Wednesday evenings, Jan. 11- Feb. 15, 2012 7:15–10:00 pm Instructor Pat McNees The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street Bethesda, MD 20815 Phone: 301 654-8664 Writer's Center online http://www.writer.org postmaster@writer.org $220 for members, $260 for nonmembers You can e-mail postmaster@writer.org and ask to be notified when workshops go on-line for registration. Include your mailing address and ask for a hard copy of their brochure of workshops. Curious about people's lives? Love to listen to (and help shape) stories? Looking for a satisfying line of freelance work that involves interviews, writing, editing, and production?
Learn about helping private clients write their memoirs or family histories (and communities and organizations write their histories). Attend the Fall Conference of Personal HistoriansDo you help others write their memoirs or tell their family (or organizational) stories? Join others doing similar work at this year's conference of the Association of Personal Historians October 16-20, 2011 (Sunday-Thursday) Pre-conference and conference schedule here. A great place to talk shop, talk technique, talk equipment (and how to use it), and talk about the interesting (and varying) directions this fascinating field can take us. I write mostly for print, but love watching the video tributes and video bios that are shown during Media Share. Disclaimer: I am APH's current president. The third annual Compleat Biographer Conference will be held
May 19, 2012, on the campus of the University of Southern California. The second annual Compleat Biographer Conference was held in Washington DC on May 21, 2011. It was great! Here are videos from the Boston Conference (#1). Organized by Biographers International Organization (BIO). To receive the e-newsletter, The Biographer's Craft, apply here for membership. Other writers conferences I try to attend
Health Journalism Conference 2012 April 19-21, 2012 Sheraton Atlanta Hotel 165 Courtland St. NE Atlanta, GA 30303 Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) American Society of Journalists & Authors conference Thursday-Saturday, April 26-28, 2012 Roosevelt Hotel, Midtown Manhattn |
Websites, organizations, and other resourcesA GREAT READ
Blog roll, too
and communities of book lovers
Best reads and most "discussable"
Fact-finding, fact-checking, and news and info resources
Recommended reading
BOOK AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
New, used, and rare books, Amazon.com and elsewhere
Blogs, social media, podcasts, ezines, survey tools and online games
Entrepreneurship for creatives
And finding freelance gigs
Blogs, video promotion, intelligent radio programs
See also Self-Publishing
Indie publishing, digital publishing, POD, how-to sources
Includes original text by Sarah Wernick
WRITERS AND CREATORS
Multimedia
Plus contests, other sources of funds for creators
Copywriting, speechwriting, marketing, training, and the like
Literary and commercial (including genre)
Writing, reporting, multimedia, equipment, software
Translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers
Groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, Webwriting, and wine (etc.)
Writers on writing
ETHICS, RIGHTS, AND OTHER ISSUES
Google Books Settlement (Pro and Con)
Plus media watchdogs, FOIA
EDITORS AND EDITING
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