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Now available: The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Connections, a collection of writing from mothers and their adult children, using story-telling as a technique to ignite imagination and to inspire writing. The fiction, poetry, and personal stories in Connections illustrate how we relate through stories. It’s unique for being both entertaining and featuring techniques to jumpstart creativity and ignite the imagination for inspirational writing. Connections includes an extensive resources section for writers. $12.
Amazon, Copperfeld's Books, and Book Passage (Corte Madera).
July 19
Frances Rivetti
Heading Down the Research Rabbit Hole — Layering Fiction and Non-Fiction Without Losing the Plot!
Research is essential and fun. The challenge for most writers is learning how to stay on track with writing goals when investigation detours take up too much of our time. Frances will share her tips and tools for managing research, scene setting and how to avoid overzealous forays into the maze of online procrastination.
Frances Rivetti is a British/American freelance journalist and author of the non-fiction Fog Valley Book Series (Fog Valley Crush, Love at First Bite and Fog Valley Winter), Pioneer Heritage, Backroad Rambles and Vintage Recipes. She began her career as a newspaper reporter in Cambridgeshire, England and after settling in California in the 1990s, began writing for lifestyle publications in the U.S, UK and Australia.
Fog Valley Winter is the 2018 recipient of the Silver Award for best holiday book in the annual Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYS).
Frances writes a monthly Behind The Frame column for Petaluma Arts Center and posts on local arts and culture on her popular blog site Southern Sonoma Country Life. She is currently working on completing her first work of fiction, a contemporary adult fiction novel set in Northern California’s coastal realm and inland behind the Redwood Curtain.
Frances and her husband raised three sons in West Petaluma and she remains actively involved in the community.
Writers Forum has been pivotal in getting me motivated, focused, and published. Thank you for such a wonderful venue. — D. Zelenakova
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein Let your imagination soar. Come on, you can do it. Look at the little box to the right on your screen. Click on “Prompts.” Choose one and Just Write!
