Please Note
The meetings listed below have already taken place.

Most WRW meetings are recorded.  If you would like to check out the tapes or mp3 discs from a previous meeting or workshop, please contact our Library/Archives Chair, Julie Stewart.

Saturday, May 22, 2010 - Romantic Suspense Day
At the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
Starts at 10 a.m.

Make your bad guys believable!  NY Times Bestselling author and RITA® Winner Karen Rose teams up with her husband, Martin Hafer, to explore the psychology of Chilling Villains.  With his background in psychology, Martin contrasts concepts like “psychopath” and “sociopath” and gives us the facts about behaviors that could enhance your characters.  Learn the terms that can help you pull facts into your fiction.

Lunch - Chat with our guests from approximately noon to 1:30 PM.

Afternoon Session - Immediately after lunch
Karen returns to delve deeply into dialogue and secondary characters with helpful tips for writers of every genre.  Then, Martin takes center stage, outlining human coping mechanisms and how understanding them can help you put conflict on the page.

Friday–Sunday, April 16–18, 2010 - See you at the Retreat!

Saturday, March 13, 2010 - YA Day
At the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
Starts at 10 a.m.

Join two-time RWA® Golden Heart® YA Finalist Amanda Brice as she discusses the growing Young Adult market with published panelists, including WRW’s own Diana Peterfreund, as well as Elizabeth Scott, Pam Bachorz, and Simon Pulse author Rhonda Stapleton.

Lunch - Chat with our guests from approximately noon to 1:30 PM.

Afternoon Session - Immediately after lunch

Wanna learn how to make teens fall in love with your characters and have a good laugh or two (or hopefully more)? Join us for Rhonda Stapleton’s Writing the YA Romantic Comedy Workshop and learn tricks on writing comedy, as well as how to write realistic teen romance in a satisfying manner.  Immediately following, Rhonda switches gears to present The Fiction Writer’s Self-Editing Workshop.  Do you find yourself overwhelmed by confusing grammar, punctuation, and various editing rules? Don’t despair! This workshop is the place for you. Whether you’re a beginning writer or seasoned author, you can discover simple, straightforward tips for self-editing.

Saturday, February 6, 2020 Meeting canceled

Due to the inclement weather forecast for the area, we regretfully cancel WRW’s meeting planned for Saturday, February 6. The Program Committee will work with Catherine Kent to reschedule her program to a later date. Instead, we issue:

***Snow Day Writer’s Challenge***

Think a little snow gets you off the hook? Well think again!

While Saturday’s meeting has been canceled, your chapter president (c’est moi) hereby issues you this opportunity to step up to the plate: I challenge you to have your most productive snow day of writing ever!

The details: Between now and 6 pm Sunday, sit yourself down and write, write, write. Total your word count and send it to me (). Rewriting? No problem – if you’re adding new words, give me those. If you’re editing pages, give me a page count and I’ll total those for a separate count!

From 100 words to 10,000 and anything in between, I will accept all entries, total everyone’s word count, and let our chapter know just how awesome we are at making lemon cake icing out of snowy lemons.

Yum!
Keely

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Location: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Service Center
Starts at 10 a.m.

Our Second Annual Jane-Austen-And-The-Movies Discussion

In her 1995 screenplay for Sense And Sensibility, Emma Thompson had the courage to address—and attempt to resolve—some of the novel’s weaknesses.  Following the success of last year’s discussion of Pride and Prejudice, we will watch key scenes from the movie and discuss what choices Thompson made in her adaptation, not so that we can learn how to write screenplays, but so that we can write better novels.

You do not need to have seen the movie, but to participate in the discussion you will want to read (or reread) the book.

WRW member Kathleen Gilles Seidel will lead the discussion.