After
having to cancel our January meeting due to weather, we are delighted
that our January speaker was willing to reschedule for our March
meeting. Join us in welcoming award-winning author and speaker Donna Smith at this month's Lancaster Christian Writers workshop Saturday, March 21, 2020, at Lancaster Alliance Church, 210 Pitney Rd (off Hwy 30 across from Costco) from 9:30AM-12 noon (registration opens at 9).
WORKSHOP: Dealing with Rejection.
Rejection can feel like a paper cut or a knife in the heart. Are you
oversensitive when someone criticizes you? Do you get extremely upset
when someone corrects you? Does rejection of any kind derail you for a
significant amount of time? This workshop is developed especially for
writers, especially since rejection is something we all go through,
above all, at the beginning of our journey to publication. Learning to
handle rejection at any stage of our writing journey is important. Keys
to healing and freedom will be shared, plus two unusual stories of
rejection and how they were processed to healing.
SPEAKER: Donna L.H.
Smith is a Kansas prairie girl transplanted to Lancaster County, PA.
She is a graduate of Christian Writer’s Guild Craftsman program and
holds two college degrees, both B.S. and M.A. in Mass Communication. Her
debut novel, Meghan’s Choice, made the finals of both the Selah and Will Rogers Medallion Awards in 2018. Rose’s Redemption,
second in the series, placed third in Western Fiction at the 2019 Selah
Awards. She has served as ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers)
Mid-Atlantic Zone Director and is a member of AWSA’s Protégé program
(Advanced Writers & Speaker’s Association). Donna has been healed
and delivered from a lifetime of suffering rejection, and has a heart to
help others find healing and freedom. Visit her at https://donnalhsmith.com/
SUPER SATURDAY 2020: And a reminder it is time to get your registration in for this year's one-day conference Saturday, April 18th, at Lancaster Bible College. See Registration and other info in right column.
Remember that the success and continuation of our one-day conference
depends on YOU helping us get the word out, so please consider sharing
conference info with your church, Christian school, homeschool coop,
library, or friends and family who love to write.
CRITIQUE GROUPS: We
will be making time as well for our usual peer critique groups, so if
you have a piece you'd like critiqued, bring 10 copies of up to 1500
words.
As always, email questions or concerns to jeanette@jeanettewindle.com
Blessings,
Jeanette Windle
President, Lancaster Christian Writers
Have you
ever struggled with your call to write? Received a rejection letter?
Wondered if your writing was a worthwhile investment of your time? Then
you won't want to miss this month's Lancaster Christian Writers workshop
Saturday, January 18, 2020, at Lancaster Alliance Church, 210 Pitney Rd (off Hwy 30 across from Costco) from 9:30AM-12 noon (registration opens at 9) with award-winning author and speaker Donna Smith.
WORKSHOP: Dealing with Rejection.
Rejection can feel like a paper cut or a knife in the heart. Are you
oversensitive when someone criticizes you? Do you get extremely upset
when someone corrects you? Does rejection of any kind derail you for a
significant amount of time? This workshop is developed especially for
writers, especially since rejection is something we all go through,
above all, at the beginning of our journey to publication. Learning to
handle rejection at any stage of our writing journey is important. Keys
to healing and freedom will be shared, plus two unusual stories of
rejection and how they were processed to healing.
SPEAKER: Donna L.H.
Smith is a Kansas prairie girl transplanted to Lancaster County, PA.
She is a graduate of Christian Writer’s Guild Craftsman program and
holds two college degrees, both B.S. and M.A. in Mass Communication. Her
debut novel, Meghan’s Choice, made the finals of both the Selah and Will Rogers Medallion Awards in 2018. Rose’s Redemption,
second in the series, placed third in Western Fiction at the 2019 Selah
Awards. She has served as ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers)
Mid-Atlantic Zone Director and is a member of AWSA’s Protégé program
(Advanced Writers & Speaker’s Association). Donna has been healed
and delivered from a lifetime of suffering rejection, and has a heart to
help others find healing and freedom. Visit her at https://donnalhsmith.com/
SUPER SATURDAY 2020!!!
We have our date for this year's LCW one-day conference, Saturday,
April 18th, at Lancaster Bible College. Flyer and web data will be
available soon. Meanwhile, here is an initial Press Release.
Remember that the success and continuation of our one-day conference
depends on YOU helping us get the word out, so please consider sharing
conference info with your church, Christian school, homeschool coop,
library, or friends and family who love to write.
CRITIQUE GROUPS: We
will be making time as well for our usual peer critique groups, so if
you have a piece you'd like critiqued, bring 10 copies of up to 1500
words.
As always, email questions or concerns to jeanette@jeanettewindle.com
Blessings,
Jeanette Windle
President, Lancaster Christian Writers
Can
you believe summer is already over? It was good to see a great turnout
of LCW writers at both the Montrose and Greater Philly Christian Writers
Conference end of July. Whether you attended or enjoyed some quiet free
time this summer to write, I hope you are ready to crawl from your
metaphorical cave and join fellow writers again for our Lancaster
Christian Writers fall kickoff Saturday, 9/15/18, at Lancaster Alliance Church, 210
Pitney Rd (off Hwy 30 across from Costco) from 9:30AM-12 noon
(registration opens at 9). Whether you are a plotter or a
seat-of-the-pantser in your writing, you'll want to learn from novelist
and writing coach Donna Smith's practical workshop on making the most of
your writing style.
WORKSHOP: "Plotting for Pantsers." People
who write “organically” or by the seat of their pants are called
“pantsers.” They let their stories evolve but are sometimes criticized
for poor structure and not enough planning. This workshop will help
plotters of all sorts with their writing by giving tools for creating
stunning plot twists, making not breaking promises to the reader, using
struggles and conflict to drive the story along, and creating, raising,
and using public stakes to make your story unforgettable.
SPEAKER: Donna
L.H. Smith is a graduate of Christian Writer’s Guild Craftsman program
and holds two college degrees, both B.S. and M.A. in Mass Communication.
Her debut novel, Meghan’s Choice,
made the finals of both the Selah and Will Rogers Medallion Awards. She
blogs and speaks at workshops and retreats. Recently, she took on the
role of Managing Editor of Almost an Author.com, and serves as
ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Mid-Atlantic Zone Director.
She is also a member of AWSA’s Protégé program (Advanced Writers &
Speaker’s Association). Find out more at: http://donnalhsmith.com
WRITING TO INSPIRE CHRISTIAN WRITERS WORKSHOP: And
LCW has also received an invitation from author and writers conference
director Rita Gerlach to their fall one-Christian writers workshop, also
on Saturday, September 15, 2018, on top of Gambrill Mountain in
Frederick, MD. Registration cost: $40.
Bestselling author Roseanna White will be guest speaker. Seating is
limited. Contact Rita Gerlach at rpkg@comcast.net for more information
or check out Writing to Inspire's Facebook Page
CRITIQUE GROUPS: And don't forget to bring your latest work-in-progress (ten copies up to 1500 words).
As always, for more info email questions or concerns to jeanette@jeanettewindle.com
Blessings,
Jeanette Windle
President, Lancaster Christian Writers
Take time out of your Thanksgiving rush to join Lancaster Christian Writers Saturday, November 18th, at Lancaster Alliance Church, 210 Pitney Rd (off Hwy 30 across from Costco) from 9:30AM-12 noon (registration opens at 9). Writer and journalist Donna L. H. Smith will be teaching you you can turn your story idea into publishing gold.
SPEAKER: Donna
L. H. Smith’s extensive writing experience over the past forty years
includes everything from radio journalism to newspaper to magazine
articles, script-writing of slide sets and filmstrips, public
relations and marketing, and promotional pieces. Her first novel Meghan’s Choice was a semi-finalist for Operation First Novel in 2015 and is being published in late 2017. Her novella Remember Honor
was a semi-finalist in the 2016 ACFW Genesis contest. Donna currently
serves as Mid-Atlantic Zone Director for ACFW (American Christian
Fiction Writers). You can find more about her at http://donnalhsmith.com.
WORKSHOP: Mining for Stories: Discovering Their Worth: Where
can you get a unique story idea that hasn’t been done before? How can
you know if a story idea is worth pursuing? Using the O2EU (Obscure,
Opposite, Extreme, Unusual) formula, this workshop will teach you how to
use every resource available to you to find to a unique angle for your
story. Once you’ve discovered your idea, how do you know if it’s worth
telling? A scoresheet will be included as a handout, but you’ll have to
be brutally honest with yourself when scoring your story idea.
WRITERS ONE-DAY INTENSIVE INVITE FROM MIKE DELLOSSO: Mike
Dellosso, a suspense novelist and writing coach well-known to our LCW
group, invites all writers to a one-day intensive writers conference, Creative Writing for Everyone, Saturday,
November 11, 2017, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, at Calvary Bible Church, 603
Wilson Avenue, Hanover, PA 17331. Whether writing fiction or
non-fiction, experienced or novice, this conference is for you. Cost for
the day is $40 ($30 for students, ACFW, LCW members; simply mention
that you are LCW when you register). Registration and other information
can be found at: Creative Writing Instruction
SUPER SATURDAY 2018!!: And
it's never too late to get LCW's own one-day conference down on your
calendar. Next year's conference is confirmed for Saturday, April 7th,
at Lancaster Bible College. We are excited to have already confirmed a
stellar faculty lineup, including New York bestselling author Loree
Lough, author and conference speaker Pierre Eade, novelists Shawn
Smucker and Rita Gerlach, journalist and Tyndale author Lynn Eib,
conference director, editor, and author Marlene Bagnull, and more. Look for more info after the holidays.
CRITIQUE GROUPS: As
usual, we will be making time as well for our usual peer critique
groups, so if you have a piece you'd like critiqued, bring 10 copies of
up to 1500 words.
As always, email questions or concerns to jeanette@jeanettewindle.com
Blessings,
Jeanette Windle
President, Lancaster Christian Writers
