Bundaberg Writers' Club

Already Writefest 2011 is looking fantastic with three speakers and Deonie Fiford returning to hold master classes. From the feedback I got last year Deonie will very much be in demand and I know that for the first time I will be submitting a ms for this great opportunity.
Once again Sandy has shown her dedication to this event by securing three speakers already.
Leanne Taylor teaches story writing for video and computer games, an industry that has become a juggernaut.

Heads up everyone! Mentoring the Muse is coming October 15-18 2010. What does this mean you ask? Two things:
1. Use the August 20th deadline for submissions as a motivational tool, get some work done. Polish that story of novel up and send it in. Regardless of the outcome you will have achieved something, writing.
2. A brilliant opportunity to get some serious mentoring in before Writefest 2011! Get that manuscript workshop ready or even better pull an editors interview. Nothing negative comes from trying to improve yourself.

Hi again,
is it okay to mention that a copy of my book, Rose: A True Lady, is up for grabs in a competition?
If you click here:
http://cyndes-got-the-write-stuff.blogspot.com/
you'll find out how to enter.

Good luck
Diane

Hi everyone,
it's wonderful to join the Bundy Writer's. I look forward to meeting more of you. Wasn't the Writefest fantastic? as usual. Sandy and the others do a mighty job.
Bye for now
Diane

Whoo hoo! And that’s all I can say until next week. See you there this weekend.
Dean
(Yeah I'm just a bit excited, will be easy to pick me out on Friday night.)

This time next week I will be on the road heading down for the annual Writefest in Bundaberg.
Friday night being the offical social night at the Bargara Golf Club and then a full day Saturday at the uni with the guest speakers. What's more, it is even more exciting this year because I know how much fun it will be. Let alone the educational positives it wll have! ( Was going to use the word edumacational but would cop to much flak.)
Saturday night might have some unoffical soicalising, I know I will be keen . Otherwise I will end up on the laptop working on my ms in a darkened motel room.

Back again, just a quick note. We have a valuable tool here with this website and the more people who use it the more we will get from it.
So give it a go, blog away or post a snippet of that great idea you have for a story in the forums!
Dino.

Writing routines are important if you are working on a manuscript. Everyone is different, lifestyles and the volume of work you can create in the time you have. So here is where time management comes to the fore, yes management.

The first thing I worked out about this addictive creative pastime is to control the hours that get invested into the red hot ideas and manuscripts under construction. Otherwise you suffer a lot, burnout, lack of sleep or that very depressing side effect, frustration. The last being from not writing!

As our president, Lorraine, said recently the bum glue that Bryce Courtney recommended is difficult to get hold of, and after 8 hours on a computer at work the last thing I want to do is sit at one for another 2 hours (even if it involves a much more interesting topic). But I've just heard another great idea from a writing friend... if you write 1000 words a week you'll have over 50,000 by the end of a year. That makes the 70,000 novel-length target sound a bit more achievable to me. I'll try to give it a go. Keep writing all!
Jenny

Went down to the Nigel Brennan workshop on Saturday 20.03.10 and gained a valuable insight into how a commercial writer operates. Even more interesting was the good turnout of people who came along to listen to Nigel. Doing the writing exercises and reading them out meant I had to overcome my shy nature but it was good fun.

Dean