Pursue your personal publishing happily-ever-after
DARA Welcomes Candie Moonshower on May 24th
'Time Is On Your Side': How to Use the Events of Our Lives to Plot
Our Stories
​When do I start my story? When do I end it? Sometimes the hardest part of plotting is figuring out the timing. In this interactive workshop, I'll share some of my tried-and-true ways to figure out how and when to start (and end) your story, scaffold your plot, and help you outline using historic or contemporary events, Aristotle, and ticking time clocks. Using both time and events gives you a definitive start and finish, helps you develop your characters, and aids in research. Bring your pen and paper for both group and personal exercises!
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Bio:
Witty banter is Candie Moonshower's favorite aspect of a romance novel. It is also the basis of her thirty-three happy years of marriage with her handsome Hubcap. She enjoys using her wits to teach her students how to write well and to introduce them to reading romances, which she does in the class she designed and passed through committees (with much laughter), a survey of the modern romance genre. Moonshower is the author of two published books and 200+ freelance articles and essays.​
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If you are not a member of the DARA chapter, please register to attend this workshop. The attendance fee is $5.00 and includes the workshop recording. When payment has been received, you'll be sent the Zoom link.
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At DARA, you will find...
DARA's Purpose & People
We are a non-profit, voluntary association of writers dedicated to raising and maintaining quality in the romance genre and its sub-genres. DARA works to accomplish this through advocating high professional standards and through the dissemination of information on writing and the publishing industry. DARA is chapter 56 of the Romance Writers of America.
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We welcome all writers serious about pursuing a personal publishing happily-ever-after.
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We invite you to come to a meeting or two, get to know us, and find out if you'd like to join our writing family.
DARA is a local chapter of RWA. Click to learn more.
