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		<title>How To Write a Book Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yippee ay aeeee and jumping jehosophat!
I know that Monday is normally my day to send you a useful link but I&#8217;ve been so excited by what happened at the weekend I hoped you won&#8217;t mind if I give you some follow up to the workshop.
I&#8217;m not sure what I expected to happen, since it was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yippee ay aeeee and jumping jehosophat!
I know that Monday is normally my day to send you a useful link but I&#8217;ve been so excited by what happened at the weekend I hoped you won&#8217;t mind if I give you some follow up to the workshop.
I&#8217;m not sure what I expected to happen, since it was the first time I&#8217;d facilitated the workshop and I&#8217;m not sure what the attendees expected.
Whatever our combined expectations, they were exceeded. We all left realising what a powerful process it had been in generating ideas, settling people&#8217;s fears and pointing them in the right direction for them.
We videoed some comments from the attendees who didn&#8217;t mind appearing on film and I&#8217;ll be putting those up on the site later in the week.
But to give you an idea &#8211; one of the attendees came in with two vague-ish ideas and during the first exercise, that&#8217;s less than half an hour into the workshop came up with an idea that had her almost jumping into the air. She couldn&#8217;t understand why she hadn&#8217;t thought of it before!
And of course since the whole workshop was classed as confidential, as laid out in the guidelines the group put together, then she was happy and comfortable to share the idea with us knowing nobody would pinch it.
It&#8217;s given me the impetus to go on and offer what I really want to do &#8211; A TWELVE WEEK PROGRAMME with workshops, support and a group forum. I&#8217;m going to go full steam ahead now to put this together so I can offer it starting September. More details as it comes together.
What a revelation to all of us!
Yours in a state of extreme jubilation!
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		<title>How to write &#8211; the spaces in between</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 10:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a great weekend at two Newark Jazz Festival.  Sultry, funny, engaging concert with Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett and then on Sunday a storming set with Tim Kliphuis a Dutch jazz fiddler.  His fingers worked so fast they almost had smoke coming off them!
I&#8217;ve talked about rhythm in writing before and&#8230;
how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Had a great weekend at two Newark Jazz Festival.  Sultry, funny, engaging concert with Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett and then on Sunday a storming set with Tim Kliphuis a Dutch jazz fiddler.  His fingers worked so fast they almost had smoke coming off them!
I&#8217;ve talked about rhythm in writing before and&#8230;
how important it is.  Listening to Claire Martin I thought about how   a great singer, of whatever kind, can make you think completely differently about a song just by the phrasing they adopt.  Peggy Lee was another singer who could stretch a phrase out till you expected it to break then pull it back just in time to make a different sense of it.
While driving to and from Newark we listened to Radio 3&#8217;s Chopin weekend.  One quote I heard about was from the pianist Artur Schnabel who said of himself, &#8220;I probably don&#8217;t play the notes any better than any other pianist.  But I play the spaces in between better.&#8221;
As I&#8217;m putting the writing workshop together I&#8217;m thinking of all the questions delegates might want answered.  And I&#8217;ve been wondering about touching on punctuation since many people seem confused about it these days.  I don&#8217;t want to teach my grandmother to suck eggs but&#8230;
For a writer I believe that punctuation is there for one reason only.  To make the writing clearer and easier to read.  And it can act as our spaces in between.
Just a reminder about the workshop.  How To Write a Book Workshop, 28/29 June in Nottingham.  Covering punctuation (probably) the five stages of writing (definitely) and how to manage the whole project of writing a book(without it driving you mad!).  For more details see the special web page &#8211;  How To Write a Book Workshop &#8211; and remember the early bird booking discount stops after 31st May.
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		<title>How To Write a Book Workshop &#8211; details</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 11:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi
Finally I&#8217;ve worked out all the subjects I&#8217;ll be covering in the How To Write a Book Workshop.  Details are up on a special page on the website but to give you a quick look here are just 5 of the topics I&#8217;ll be helping you sort out:

Looking at the purpose and market for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi
Finally I&#8217;ve worked out all the subjects I&#8217;ll be covering in the How To Write a Book Workshop.  Details are up on a special page on the website but to give you a quick look here are just 5 of the topics I&#8217;ll be helping you sort out:

Looking at the purpose and market for your book &#8211; I&#8217;d call this vital if you want an easier writing process.
Finding out how you can research what that market might be looking for &#8211; and is it the same as you want to tell them.
Why you must divide your writing stage into 5 separate stages.
Sorting out strategies to start your writing, keep going, (always more difficult once the enthusiasm has worn off) and then knowing when and how to stop.
When to involve other people&#8230; and the type you want to keep away from your project at all costs.

I&#8217;m putting as much into it as I can fit in within the 2 days, 28/29th June in Nottingham.  Oh and I&#8217;ve sorted out  pre and post workshop segments to give you the best possible chance.
So if you know anyone who keeps saying they will write a book, someday, this is probably going to be right up their street.
See the separate page How To Write a Book Workshop for more details.
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		<title>The Five Stages Of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d give you a sneak preview of just one part of the workshop in June.Many of people&#8217;s problems with writing happen because they don&#8217;t distinguish between the different stages in a writing project.
Muddling those stages can slow you down or even worse stop you completely. In the workshop I&#8217;ll be helping people work [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d give you a sneak preview of just one part of the workshop in June.Many of people&#8217;s problems with writing happen because they don&#8217;t distinguish between the different stages in a writing project.
Muddling those stages can slow you down or even worse stop you completely. In the workshop I&#8217;ll be helping people work out the different mindsets you need for each stage.
Let&#8217;s look at the stages:
1. Research:
One of the unmovable bricks in my writing house is research. Now this isn&#8217;t always popular with clients or writers come to that. But the more I work with clients, the more I realise that doing research about your project is key to smoothing the writing process.
Where and how you research depends on your project, your target audience and your understanding of your market.
2. Writing:
This is the fun stage. The stage where you can let your creativity run riot and not censor it. Of course you have to start and that&#8217;s a problem many people I meet tell me about.
Fear of the blank page. Even professional writers have it sometimes. The difference between the professionals and the rest, is that they know how to beat it into submission!
3. Pause:
Can this be said to be a stage? Yes I believe that you have to factor in a time when you&#8217;ve reached the end of a chapter, a section or the whole book and you stop.
Rather than it being simply a time between the bits or the stages, you can learn how to use it to give yourself a flying start with the next stage.
4. Editing:
Ah editing! Writers often hate this stage because they can&#8217;t bear to read over what they&#8217;ve written.
I often think about what the sculptor Michaelangelo said about sculpting. That it was a case of allowing the figure to emerge from a block of marble.
In the same way when you edit you&#8217;re allowing the book to emerge from the words you&#8217;ve written.
As always, when you know how to approach editing then it can be a much easier and more fun stage.
5. Reviewing:
And a scary stage for writers when you have to show other people what you&#8217;ve written.
But as you&#8217;d expect me to say by now, there are ways you can tackle this stage which help reduce the strain on your nervous system.
That&#8217;s it in a nutshell. Doesn&#8217;t mean you don&#8217;t have to put some work in, but using this kind of structure helps reduce the time and gives you a process to work through.
Happy writing!
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		<title>How to write &#8211; how do you choose a subject</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 07:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The longer I&#8217;m a writer and the more clients I talk to the more I think choosing what you write is vital. Why? Because&#8230;
if what you write about is of no interest to the reader then you waste your time writing. But it&#8217;s worse than that because if you&#8217;re in business and you&#8217;re writing to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The longer I&#8217;m a writer and the more clients I talk to the more I think choosing what you write is vital. Why? Because&#8230;
if what you write about is of no interest to the reader then you waste your time writing. But it&#8217;s worse than that because if you&#8217;re in business and you&#8217;re writing to try to sell then if you are choosing the wrong topic you&#8217;re also wasting your money.
Of course at the moment I&#8217;m focused very much on the subjects I&#8217;m covering in the How To Write A Book workshop I&#8217;m holding in June. Having ideas for your writing is important. But having ideas that sell is more important. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ll be spending most of one day talking about researching the market the delegates want to reach.
And the same system will work if you want to find a publisher. Sticking your finger on a list of publishers while your eyes is closed might work occasionally. You&#8217;ll have a better chance of success if you research what the publishers are looking for and if your proposed book matches what they need.
After all they are in business and each publisher has their own criteria for the books they choose.
More research still! Most publishers will have advice and information on their websites. And if you don&#8217;t know where to start then the Writers and Artists Guide will help. Stocked in libraries so you don&#8217;t need to buy it.
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		<title>How to write &#8211; musings about editing and proofreading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 09:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eileen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I promised myself when I started blogging that I&#8217;d keep to a schedule. And so far I have managed it. But this week stuff happened..
 A client contacted me two weeks ago about helping them proof read a book manuscript. It should have reached me last week but because the authors were still working on, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I promised myself when I started blogging that I&#8217;d keep to a schedule. And so far I have managed it. But this week stuff happened..
 A client contacted me two weeks ago about helping them proof read a book manuscript. It should have reached me last week but because the authors were still working on, I didn&#8217;t receive it till Monday this week &#8211; with a Friday deadline to send the manuscript to the publisher.
I understand the time constraints but I thought I&#8217;d write today &#8211; should have been yesterday &#8211; about the importance of what you do at the beginning of a writing project.
It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve written about before and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll write about again but I&#8217;m coming to the conclusion that not only is it important &#8211; it&#8217;s vital to decide on some things up front.

Target audience &#8211; makes it easier to think of someone personal to write to.
Why you&#8217;re writing &#8211; makes it easier to consider response of target audience.
Structure of piece of writing &#8211; makes it easier to write when you can flow the words into a structure.
Length of writing &#8211; makes it easier with disciplining your writing.
Style of writing &#8211; makes it easier to make contact with your target audience.
How long it will take to write it.

What many people who write don&#8217;t take into account is number 6. Especially if they are doing a collaborative project. Any piece of writing no matter how short needs proofreading and editing for a longer piece.
That takes time. More time than most people factor in. It&#8217;s very difficult to proof read and edit your own work. It takes discipline and total objectivity to be able to junk half a chapter of a book or a whole page on a website. As a professional writer I&#8217;ve had to learn it. It can hurt deleting something that took you hours to write.  But if it doesn&#8217;t do the job required it has to go.
With collaborative writing there are all manner of snags you can hit. Different writing styles. Different language. Different approaches.
Time spent on the structure of a project is never wasted. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m emphasising that in the How To Write a Book workshop I&#8217;m facilitating in June in Nottingham. Details will be posted on the website next week.
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