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Redwood Writers is the largest of 19 California Writers Club branches. Early members included Jack London and John Muir. Our motto: “Writers helping writers.”
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Redwood Writers News & Events
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Redwood Writers News & Events / Member meetings, event fliers, author events, writing conferences, workshops and more Redwood Writer news.
Writing Historical Fiction
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Writing Historical Fiction / Whether you need to research for your historical fiction stories or you're just looking for a little inspiration to get started, check out the pins here and on the "Odd Bits of Info" board.
Crime Fiction Writing Prompts & Tips
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Crime Fiction Writing Prompts & Tips / Are you writing a mystery, thriller, suspense, or horror story? Here are some useful tools to help.
Motivating Memoirs
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Motivating Memoirs / Looking for inspiration for your next memoir? Even if you aren't entering the Redwood Writers 2015 Memoir contest, here are some pins to inspire your story.
Choosing words
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Choosing words / Choose the perfect words to tell your story.
Grammar Cheat Sheet
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Grammar Cheat Sheet / Brush up on grammar to avoid common issues
Creating Characters
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Creating Characters / Hair color, hobbies, clothes...Here are some ideas to help you build your characters. Visit the "Choosing Words" page for more descriptive words.
Active Characters
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Active Characters / Need some active inspiration to round out your character's profile? Check out these activities.
Writing Scenes
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Writing Scenes / Here are some prompts to use when 'showing' a scene in your writing.
Steampunk
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Steampunk / Victorian style in a future that has yet to arrive. Natural fibers; screws, steam and gears; brass, lace and leather and an eclectic mixture of the past and future worlds melded into a spectacle of fantasy.
Cautionary Tales & Writing Advice
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Cautionary Tales & Writing Advice / Gems of advice from your fellow writers.
Writers...Stop Procrastinating!
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Writers...Stop Procrastinating! / Writers, do you need some inspiration to stop procrastinating? Sometimes you just need a bit of inspiration.
Writers Being Social & Building a Platform
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Writers Being Social & Building a Platform / You’ve written your book, but who is going to read it? How do readers find your book, and why is it important for them to read your work? At the outset, building your author platform may appear a daunting, tedious and ambiguous task, but Redwood Writers is here to help.
Gotcha Covered
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Gotcha Covered / Be inspired by clever, beautiful, creative, unusual designs for book covers and interior illustrations.
A writer's prescription
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A writer's prescription / Need a dose of "show" when your ailing story bleeds too much "tell?" Regardless of whether you write suspenseful crime stories or dramatic romance, look here to discover medicinal remedies and descriptive cures.
NaNoWriMo
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NaNoWriMo / Don't give up! You can do it! It's that time of year again when it really IS time to avoid all the unnecessary distractions and get down to writing that book in 30 days.
Facing the page
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Facing the page / The act of "people watching" (not the creepy kind) is a common practice for writers to develop stories. What stories would these people inspire? Spark your next story by describing their features, expression, mood, setting, motivation, friends, enemies, lovers, home, family, journey, past, goals, success, failure, trials, falls, secrets, weakness, lies, frailty, awakening, interactions. Write a sentence, a scene, a chapter, a book. #StartWritingNow!
Writer humor
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Writer humor / A little subtle, a dash of odd and a bit of sarcasm.
Room and word
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Room and word / Every character needs a setting. A tiny hovel, an urban apartment, a lodge in the mountains, a cottage by the sea, a castle on the edge of a cliff... Here are some rooms to inspire settings in your stories.
Path to Publishing
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Path to Publishing / Tips on publishing your book.
Mingling By Design
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Mingling By Design / Do you know where your characters are tonight? Are they in a big city bar meeting the love of their life or conspiring murder? Are they on a cruise ship dancing the night away? Are they having a pint at the oldest pub in London? Here are some images to inspire socializing settings in your story that can help your reader feel like they are sitting on the next stool in the scene.
Prompting stories
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Prompting stories / If a picture is worth a thousand words, try creating 1,000 words from these images. #WritingPrompts #writing #stories #StartWritingNow!
For the Love of Books
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For the Love of Books
Favorite Reading Nooks
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Favorite Reading Nooks / Find a cozy spot and curl up with good book...especially books authored by members of the Redwood Writers.
Jack London
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Jack London / The Redwood Writers
Odd Info Bits
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Odd Info Bits / Writing prompts and miscellaneous information