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NOTE: These positions are available to members in good
standing. InScribe Representatives
Positions are open in BC, QC and the YUKON. If you are a member living
in one of these provinces and would like to be our contact there, please
contact us.
Fall Conference Committee
This is a wonderful opportunity to get involved in the Fall Conference. Even
if you can only play a small part, your help will be appreciated. The
committee meets a couple times a year to plan and discuss ideas.
Contact us for more information.
Web Design
This could be a team effort. Our webmaster would like some help, perhaps
assigning the care/upkeep of certain pages to one or more team members.
Right now, this site is designed and posted with MS FrontPage 2003, so you
need to have that software and know something about using it.
Contact for more information.
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- Many of the writer’s e-newsletters I subscribe to contain, besides
market listings and articles on writing, a brief quote about writing,
such as the John Steinbeck quote on the cover. Several bloggers that I
follow also post writing quotes—brief tidbits from the writers who’ve
“been there, done that” and have some advice to pass back to those of us
trying to follow them.
- One doesn’t often think of John Steinbeck needing to rewrite
anything. Surely such a great writer simply had to “throw the whole
thing on paper” and hand it to his publisher. And surely words come to
him like water to a tap—for didn’t he write long books like East of
Eden?
- And yet, this quote implies that even the great writers struggle
with words, with excuses not to write, with rewriting and correcting and
rewriting again, and with going on. How else could Steinbeck pass on
such sage advice?
- I have to admit to a tendency to rewrite. One of the reasons I use a
computer is that it’s easy to edit as I go. I can hit the backspace key,
rearrange paragraphs, rework sentences. And there’s a time for that.
After “the whole thing is down.”
- At last year’s Fall Conference, one of the best sessions I went to
was Susan Plett’s Freefall Writing. At the time, I was suffering
writer’s block. I have ideas—but too often, I get stuck in the editing.
Susan encouraged us just to write. No editing. To get it all down, as
Steinbeck says.
- As Glynis says in her column, there’s so much that we bring home
from writer’s conferences. The goody bags, the inspiration, the lessons,
the encouragement. The chance to just write.
- So get out your pen. Write freely. And fill out that conference
registration form.
~ Bonnie Way
2009 Fall
Conference: September 25-26 Providence Renewal Centre
Keynote Speakers:
Kathleen Gibson and
Bonnie Grove
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