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Stuart White posted an update
Good Morning, WriteMentor Community!
As we begin putting together this year’s WOWCON programme, we’d love to hear from you about what topics/areas you’d like to be covered in our workshops/talks/panels.
Our tentative theme – still a work in progress – is INNOVATE. Not that every session has to be about that, but it might give you a flavour of the direction we’ll focus on with at least some of the sessions.
So reply with anything you’d love to see in the online conference (likely to be first weekend in October – watch out for a Save the Date soon), and we’ll consider as many of them as we can. And if you’re really clued up, you can also suggest a person(s) to lead/participate in the suggested session (but not necessary!).
Helen Addyman, Jenny Batchelor and 3 others-
Maybe something on chapter books, a workshop type thing (Pamela Butchart would be a fab person for this). What about writing children’s poems (Kate Williams, Attie Lime, Sarah Ziman). Something on plotting in PBs?
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Would an idea generation workshop sort of fit with innovating? Some exercises for when we’re stuck in a rut to help us innovate new ideas? (she says having been staring at a blank piece of paper for ages
). I always like having things I can take away and use at a future date as I’m rubbish at coming up with ideas in workshops, but a sort of idea generation toolkit would be great?
Also, it would be brilliant to have something about how to promote ourselves / our books, something which probably doesn’t come very naturally to lots of writers. What is actually a good investment of time and energy and what isn’t? And same sort of thing but for events (schools/libraries/bookshops etc)?
And I know writing to trends is probably a fruitless task due to how slow things are, but are there innovative trends happening across the age groups in the light of low literacy levels (beyond lower word counts) that would be useful for writers to be aware of?
Thank you so much, I’m sure whatever the talks/workshops, wowcon will be as brilliant as always
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