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SUMMARY:WAG's Writers in the Woods
DESCRIPTION:Forty writers attended WAG’s first workshop/retreat\, held at Skipper Hammond’s rural homestead on the Gainesville side of Williston. \nWorkshop topics included publishing\, e-books\, poetry\, marketing\, blogging\, freelance writing\, and submitting to the 2016 Bacopa Literary Review. \nThe cost to WAG members was $15. Attendees enjoyed morning coffee\, donut holes\, and a boxed lunch. Art Crummer and Jeff Shapiro provided entertainment. \nFollowing the day-long program\, Skipper led attendees on a walking tour of her  110-acre spread in old Florida country. What a fun educational day! \n 
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CATEGORIES:Retreat
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SUMMARY:Targeting Your Pitch
DESCRIPTION:by Felicia Lee\nPattie Glenn\, published author\, screenplay writer and broker/manager spoke on “Targeting Your Pitch” at WAG’s Speakers Series meeting on April 26\, 2015. She is a prolific author of books and screenplays in a range of genres. She’s also a talented singer (a soloist with the Gainesville Big Band) and realtor and founder of the GreenSmart team at Keller Williams Realty. \nAfter her lively and informative talk on how to perfect your pitch to agents and publishers\, she answered a few more questions: \nQ: What first inspired you to write? \nA: My grandmother was my biggest inspiration – she instilled in me a love of storytelling. Most importantly\, she told me I could be whatever I wanted to be; that’s a really important thing for a child to hear. She taught me how to tell stories – she’d have me read aloud on a reel-to-reel tape. \nI’m not going to say what year that was (I was four) but I still have that tape! I always enjoyed writing poetry in school\, but I didn’t really start writing creatively until around 2003. \nQ: What’s the secret ingredient to a great pitch? If there’s one thing you’d like everyone here to take away today\, what would it be? \nA: Definitely preparation. I prepare – I’m a narrative speaker by nature\, so it’s hard for me to be concise. So I edit and edit and edit! I’m good at editing\, but it’s not easy for me to do\, so I put a lot of work into it. \nQ: You’ve got a lot on your plate with a full-time career as a realtor\, your singing\, your writing – and promoting your writing must also take a lot of time. How do you make time for everything? \nA: Well\, I have to tell you\, I’m really out of balance at times – real estate is that crazy. I rely a lot on prayer and meditation. I’d love my writing to be more of a full-time job – but still\, I don’t want to do just one thing. \nBackground:\nPattie Glenn\, published author\, screenplay writer and broker/manager combines her creative and analytical talents to serve today’s entertainment markets\, and seeks to empower audiences through stories for the heart and soul in her screenplays\, novels\, short stories\, transmedia storytelling\, and instructional materials for a variety of media. Glenn graduated Valedictorian from Full Sail University’s 2013 Creative Writing for Entertainment Bachelor’s of Fine Arts program. \nVisit her website at Pondhawk Productions.
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/targeting-your-pitch/
CATEGORIES:Retreat,Speaker
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SUMMARY:A Land Remembered
DESCRIPTION:by Wendy Thornton\nA large crowd of writers and environmentally concerned attendees heard speaker Rick Smith talk about his father\, Patrick Smith\, and the many historical books he wrote about Florida. The most famous is A Land Remembered\, but it was his fist Florida book\, Forever Island\, which garnered a Pulitzer nomination. Angel City\, about the plight of migrant workers\, resulted in demands for reform for these oppressed employees. He passed away in January 2014. \nRick and his wife are from Cambria\, California. Using videos of his father’s actual presentations over the years\, Rick Smith created a multimedia program with “Florida sounds.” \nSome of the stories told by Rick Smith originated from his father and some were actually presented by Patrick Smith through accompanying videos\, a unique method of lecturing. According to Patrick Smith\, “All good writing comes from a sense of place.” \nWhen Forever Island was published\, the Soviet Writers’ Union invited him to the Soviet Union. Smith also told about how a hippie somehow helped him break his writer’s block\, arriving in his office with a story of a pond drying up and fish flopping around in the mud. A cottonmouth came began carrying fish one-by-one to another\, deeper pond setting them free. Smith was sure that the hippie had actually seen this\, and the tale inspired him to begin telling his environmental astute stories. \nFor Angel City\, Smith went to a Goodwill store\, bought an old outfit\, and passed himself off as a migrant worker. He said he almost quit that research because of the pure physical torture of such a life. “No one can imagine what life is like for a migrant worker unless they live it.” The book led to editorials demanding that this tragic abuse of workers end. As a result\, laws were passed to protect migrant workers. \nSmith said that his father’s most famous book\, A Land Remembered\, required more than two years of research. Smith researched the Battle of Olustee\, the birth of the cattle and citrus industry\, the great freeze of 1895\, the land boom in Miami in 1920s\,  the 1926 hurricane\, and the 1928 hurricane that drowned more than 2000 people in Okeechobee in 2 hours. What he wanted to know was\, how did this affect people\, how did they survive\, why did they come to Florida in the first place? “What were their hopes\, their dreams\, … the sort of thing you cannot find in a history book.” \nHis book was so realistic he says people often called and thanked him for writing about their families. But what he wrote was a composite of all the families he had learned about. Over the years\, many schools have used the book\, now considered a classic of Florida literature. Patrick Smith was definitely ahead of his time.  As one of his characters said\, “Progress ain’t reversible.” \nRick Smith refers to his style of presentation as “visual storytelling.”  From the enthusiasm of the crowd gathered at the WAG special event\, it appears this style was a tremendous hit. \nIn his presentation\, Smith defined where the term Florida cracker originated. It came from the cracking sound of whips used by Florida cowboys when they herded cattle. It was also used as a method of communication — crackers could let other cowboys know where they were or whether there was danger by the number of cracks. (If you do it just right\, the tip of the whip exceeds the speed of sound.) \nWAG’s own Art Crummer opened with some Florida folk songs. And thank you to our  program coordinator\, Carol Ray Skipper\, for setting up this great presentation. Also\, a thank you to the Unitarian Universalist church for the use of their beautiful facility.
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/a-land-remembered/
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville\, 4225 NW 34th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32615\, United States
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SUMMARY:Holiday Spirit: Celebrating a Year of Writing and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Although WAG’s annual member shindig on Sunday\, Dec. 14\, 2014 was a holiday party\, there was little doubt that the evening was more about a changing of the guard. Outgoing WAG president Art Crummer handed over the reins to Susie Baxter in the symbolic form of a 9-pound hammer and a large bucket of gravel (Susie had suggested by eMail a ceromony where Art passed the gavel\, but spell check had changed it to “gravel”). \nIn return\, Art received an Amazon gift card and a six-pack of a brew whose identity was kept secret\, for he cleverly left it part way in the lighted gift bag\, which blinked merrily away. \nThe potluck dinner allowed WAG members to showcase their favorite dishes and desserts. Food tables overflowed with baked ham\, chicken salad\, black-eyed peas\, casseroles\, corn pudding\, green salad\, fruit salads\, key lime pie\, apple pie\, brownies\, fudge\, tea and water. Some members even contributed bottles of wine. \nThe diversity of the food offerings contributed to the success of the party\, said WAG member Joan Carter.”Worked out better than having a caterer\, though it was a puzzle for those like me who don’t cook!” \nArt serenaded those in attendance with his unique brand of folk\, blues\, and swing music\, beginning with Don Groom’s ode to Payne’s Prairie\, “Vitachoocho\,” followed by Will McLean’s “Wild Hog” (in keeping with some of the organic\, free-range pork Mary Crummer provided). A number of original compositions followed (“I Never Ever Sing Old Lost Love Songs”\, “I’d Rather be Your Number Three”\, “Interstate I-75 Rag”\, and “Lovebug Blues”). He closed with “Elmer’s Tune” and “My Blue Heaven”. He was accompanied by WAG members Patsy Murray on fiddle (or was it violin?) and Jeffrey Shapiro\, his clarinet adding wind under Art’s lyrics. \nWAG members also took time to reflect on the loss of co-founder Kal Rosenberg\, who passed away on Nov. 11 after a battle with kidney disease. Kal would have enjoyed the camaraderie that he helped establish. He is missed.
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/holiday-spirit-celebrating-a-year-of-writing-reading/
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville\, 4225 NW 34th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32615\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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