The Muse Online Writers Conference

The ONLY online conference of its kind!

Affiliated with the award-winning sites and Writer's Digest Top 101 Writing Sites of 2005 & 2006 The MuseItUp Club & Apollo's Lyre



     
 
Our conference is FREE but ask if you can donate to help support this site and our cause (to continue offering you FREE workshops each year).  Your generosity is appreciated.
This year we are proud to offer a portion of the Conference donations to the Shaking the System - Autism Awareness Foundation. For more information on this foundation,
please visit the website.
 
OUR 2009 CONFERENCE WAS A WHOPPING SUCCESS!!!!


Next year's conference will be held
October 11 - 17, 2010
BIG THANK YOU goes out to these gals for moderating and taking the transcripts:

Debra Dunlap

Kari Wolfe Linda Morelli

Marie Davies

Melinda Crump

Pamela Reese

Penny Ehrenkranz

Sinai Enantia

Sharon Pickrel

Sharon Schaffer

Joyce Anthony

Julia

 

And finally a HUGE thank you to Michele Graf as Head Moderator and having a larger whip than me.

And to all who secretly went behind my back to prepare this presentation: THANK YOU!

Lea's Thank You Video by Staff and Attendees.



 

Now available on MobiPocket:

The Muse On Writing $5.99

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contributing author and editor
 
Lea Schizas (The MuseItUp Club)

and

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's (Authors Coalition)

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The books above are a MUST to have in your home library. The Muse On Writing helps you complete a book from start to finish. The Frugal Book Promoter will guide you to promote and market your book.
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Please come back in November when we reopen registrations for our 2010 Conference.
 
We now have a Conference Cooler where you can go, relax, and pose writing questions amongst fellow writers. We also have a conference blog to keep you abreast on our conference.
 
We'd like to thank the following people for helping us promote the conference:

To Children's Books by Karen and Robyn

To Allena Tapia

To Cheryl Rainfield

To Helen H. David

To Tambra Kendall

To Linda Jo Martin

To Jozette Aaron
- while there sign up for her DeSilva newsletter

 

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Lea Schizas' Ten Writing Tips to Live By:
 
1- Say to yourself: "I AM a writer!" repeat this as often as necesary and more so when you're feeling down in the dumps. Writers go through spells of uncertainty. All you have to remember is the 'why you write' reason and that original passion will come back.
 
2- Avoid the naysayers. Do not allow them to take time away from your writing. You are in charge, remember this.
 
3- Challenge yourself at times. Committing and writing 500 words a day needs a cheer but challenging yourself to write that extra word will help you complete a project that much faster.
 
4- Have fun! If you begin to feel strangled, sitting by the computer staring at a blank screen, or blocked at a certain passage then step away for a spell. Allow your mind a rest. Perhaps work on something totally different than your present genre project. After some time has passed only then go back.
 
5- Buy yourself a special writing pen, one that grips firmly in your hand, one that pens smoothly. You'll be surprised what a new pen can do for your writing mood.
 
6- Don't allow rejections to stymie your mood. Remember, a rejection means you have subbed and that is more than a wannabe writer can say. Be proud you took the step of submitting a project. Now turn around and sub it somewhere else if you believe this project needs no further work.
 
7- Have someone else critique and edit your project. No matter how good we believe we are, a second pair of eyes will always catch those minute details our own eyes missed.
 
8- Begin branding yourself as a writer. It is never too early to begin announcing to the whole world that "I AM a writer!"
 
9- Network with other writers and join writing groups. Exchange links and help one another.
 
10- Try something out of the box. You might surprise yourself. If you always write mystery, then try your hand at romance. Allow your creativity to expand itself by not forcing it in one closed box. Afterall, you ARE a writer!

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