JEAN'S NON-FICTION and DIARY DATES
JEAN SAUNDERS non-fiction books
THE CRAFT OF WRITING ROMANCE
WRITING STEP BY STEP
HOW TO CREATE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
HOW TO WRITE REALISTIC DIALOGUE
HOW TO RESEARCH YOUR NOVEL
SUCCESSFUL NOVEL PLOTTING
Most of my fiction and non-fiction books can be found on Amazon. Although my main love is writing novels, I enjoy writing non-fiction, including my monthly column on writing short stories for Writing Magazine. Giving talks and encouragement to would-be writers is one way of giving back some of the enjoyment that writing has brought to me. Contrary to the way some people refer to writing as torture I have always found great pleasure in writing and I try to convey that pleasure and enthusiasm to other people.
STARTING SMALL
I have always dabbled in non-fiction, especially during my 'apprentice days' of getting published in the short story market. I wrote for kids' magazines, creating crosswords and riddle-me-mes and word puzzles. Then came small articles that would appeal to kids' imaginations. Before I wrote any 'How-To' books for other writers, I was writing articles in writers' and other magazines. I always found this a very useful task, since it made me analyse what I did myself in order to show the mechanics of putting stories together and creating characters etc, to other people. During my working life before marriage and children, I worked for the Medical Research Council in the Assay laboratory, where analysis was a way of life. At that time, we were analysing the components of early antibiotics such as penicillin and stretomycin. As a great believer in fate, I think everything we do has a relevance in our lives, and for me, this is one small example of it.
DIARY DATES 2010
March 5 - Talk - Speakeasy - Milton Keynes Writers' Group, 7.30pm onwards.
The Quaker Centre, 1 Oakley Gardens, Downhead Park, Milton Keynes MK15 9BH
March 26-28 - Course Tutor at Earnley Concourse, Earnley, nr Chichester (Short Story Writing)
March 29-April 15 - Guest Lecturer on P&O Arcadia, last leg of World Cruise - Dubai/ Aqaba/ Sharm el Sheikh/ Transit Suez Canal/ Port Said/ Athens/ Rome/ Southampton.
April 16-18 - Course Tutor - 'Write Romantic Sagas', The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire (Details: www.Malaga Workshops.co.uk)
August 7-13 - Writers' Summer School, The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. Workshop - 'Wartime Sagas'
2011
April 15-17 - West Country Writers Association, 60th anniversary, Elfordleigh Hotel, Plymouth - Speaker - 'The Magic of Storytelling'
April 27-May 18 - Guest Lecturer on 'Black Watch' Adriatic cruise - Dover/Lisbon/La Goulette/Dubrovnik/Zadar/Venice/Koper/Rijeka/Catania/Gibraltar/Dover
August 13-19 - Swanwick, Writers' Summer School
Coming in 2011
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CONTACT:
Email: jeanrowena@aol.com
Tel: 01934 518643
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