Writing Practice Prescription

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the Saturday, January 10, 2009, NSA/NC Chapter Meeting at the Sheraton Gateway hotel near the San Francisco airport. The program will start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 3:00 p.m. This informative day will help you move beyond a speaking platform to products and publications that reach [...]

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Save the Date
 
Who: National Speakers Association/Northern CA chapter meeting featuring writer Linda Vanderwold, CSP
Where: SFO Sheraton Gateway Hotel, 600 Airport Road, Burlingame, CA
What: A one-day conference (lunch included in your registration fee)
Do you have a turning-point-in-my-life story to tell? Speakers and writers often refer to these as “signature stories.” This type of story is what [...]

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This morning’s work started where last evening’s work left off. I recently created a slide presentation in Keynote on my iMac computer. When it came time to export the presentation to Powerpoint so that I could show it on a PC computer, I could not successfully export the presentation to Powerpoint in MS Office.
This morning, [...]

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Consider creating a social network to support your current writing efforts. Or, if you don’t want to start and maintain one, find and join one that focuses on your area of interest.
The benefits of a social network include:

A built-in community of people with your same concerns and interests
Personalized forums
Active discussion groups
A place to post your [...]

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In case you don’t believe that a few words can make a big difference, click on the link to view a short, creative, and very beautiful documentary that was the winner of the Short Film category in Cannes. I promise that this will not be a waste of your time.
Click here to see the “Story [...]

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OK, deadlines loom and work piles up. But everyone needs a break now and then. 
Today I saw a former neighbor in the Safeway parking lot in Half Moon Bay. 
“Remember our friend Kathryn who came over to see your PleasureWay RV when you still lived next door to us? Well, she bought a PleasureWay and is [...]

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No upfront investment funds? Not to worry. Check out this new Hewlett-Packard offering to explore news and information about MagCloud, a print-on-demand magazine publisher. Our chapter of Northern California, National Speakers Association has started to use this service for a membership benefit and we anticipate we might even net some pocket change along the way.

To [...]

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San Francisco agents Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada have a good sense of humor. On their website, you can find some of it packaged for your review. Take a few minutes to drop by their website and try on a few smiles:
Clicking for chuckles

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I have just returned from two days in San Francisco where I attended the Writing for Change Conference put on by the San Francisco Writers Conferences group headed up by agents Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada. Without a doubt, this was one of the best writing conferences I have ever attended.
What made this conference [...]

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Italy was wonderful and quite a change from work-a-day life. It has taken a week, but catch up from being away is almost done. Now it’s time to return to biz as usual.
So let’s start with the business at hand. One of my roles in life this year consists of being the program chair for [...]

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