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February 11th – How to Write a Love List: Valentine’s and Galentines Celebration with Sherry Richert Belul!

By Admin

Friday, February 11th, 2022
How to Write a Love List:
Valentine’s and Galentine’s Celebration with Sherry Richert Belul
12 pm / PT

 

 

It’s February and that means you likely need a special gift for the loves in your life.

WNBA Member Sherry Richert Belul, author of Say it Now, has a great gift idea that is simple to make and can stand alone or pair with something you’ve already bought. 

Sherry will be leading us in an interactive, joyful, and connecting activity of creating Love List Gifts. 

What’s a Love List? It is a brainstorm of specific reasons you love someone and what makes them unique. A Love List is sweet, funny, sexy, or serious. It can include any number — from five to fifteen to fifty — of loving attributes, characteristics, or memories about someone. It is one of the most simple —yet profound— ways to show someone what makes them unique and why they matter. 

All too often, people wait until funerals to express their love and appreciation. Sherry encourages you to say it now, while the person can hear it. “I believe that what we all want most in life is to know that we make a difference and that we’re loved for exactly who we are,” Sherry says. 

Sherry will be leading us through the process of creating this one-of-a-kind gift. She’ll offer some prompts as we create our Love Lists. So come to the meeting with some paper and a pen. Or, you can download Sherry’s free printable and bring that to fill in as we go: https://simplycelebrate.net/love/

We promise that this will be a joyful process for YOU — and will make a wonderful gift for someone you love! 

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Sherry Richert Belul, founder of Simply Celebrate, helps people find creative, intentional and impactful ways to celebrate life and to express love for family and friends. As a certified high performance coach, Sherry supports people in living their best lives, full of joy, success, engagement, and meaningful relationships. She is the author of Say it Now. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Town + Country, and The Wall Street Journal.

 

 

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How to Get a Global Readership: SEO

By Kate Farrell

Friday, January ? , 2022
12 pm – 1:00 pm /PDT
Lunch ‘n’ Learn
FREE Virtual Event!
How to Get a Global Readership:
Search Engine Optimization

Readers from Alaska to Australia are waiting to read the blog post you’ve just written, but they don’t know how to find it. Show them how to find your blog and become followers. Join Selma and Anniqua, co-founders of Tillism.com, to cover the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and see how they have increased the readership of their blog.  In this introductory workshop, you will find out how to use focused keywords and other SEO strategies to your advantage.

Dr. Anniqua Rana’s debut novel, Wild Boar in the Cane Field was shortlisted for Pakistan’s UBL Literary Award 2020. She co-founded the blog Tillism – Magical Words from around the World with Selma Tufail. She blogs for The Express Tribune. Her writings on gender, education, and books have appeared in TNS, Naya Daur TV, International Education, Ravi Magazine, Bangalore Review, Fourteen Hills, The Noyo River Review, Delay Fiction, Listening to the Voices: Multi-ethnic Women in Education, and other publications. She travels, writes, and lives between California and Pakistan.

 

Selma Tufail, an artist, has always navigated through the worlds of literature, art, and education. Life’s journeys have taken her around the world where she has taught, written, and created art — in Spain, Qatar, the U.A.E. the U.S, and Pakistan. She was awarded the Order of Civil Merit, the highest civilian award of Spain. The author and illustrator of Con Yanci: When Chickens Fly and Other Tales, a children’s storybook. An excerpt from a memoir she is co-writing with Anniqua Rana was performed at: Play on Words, San José’s literary performance series at the San José Museum of Art.  Her writing on gender, art and mysticism have appeared in The Dollhouse, Pakistan Daily Times, The Express Tribune, and Article in Shards of Silence – An Anthology, The Arabia Review: TESOL Arabia, UAE among others.

 

January 28 – How to Write About Grief and Loss Related to the Pandemic

By Admin

Friday, January 28th, 2022
How to Write About Grief and Loss Related to the Pandemic
Noon / PT
FREE Virtual Event!

 

Covid 19 brought the world challenges we weren’t prepared for. One of the biggest challenges is dealing with issues of grief and loss. Most people are touched in some way by this loss, and authors have brought forth books, articles, and writing classes to provide comfort and support to our diverse society addressing the immeasurable pain and uncertainties created by the pandemic.

These two authors and experts who deal with grief are gathering to discuss what we are doing and what can be done with writing to provide solace, inspiration, and hope:

 

Allen Klein: 

You may have lost a lot during Covid. Instead of focusing on what you no longer have, or can do, if you must focus what you still have.

Author of:

Embracing Life After Loss

You Can’t Ruin My Day

The Healing Power of Humor

Positive Thoughts for Troubling Times

 

 

Emily Thiroux Threatt: 

We can grieve and be happy at the same time especially when we focus on love.

Author of:

Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief

 

 

 

 

 

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April 30th – Virtual Pitch-O-Rama 2022

By Admin

Pitch-O-Rama

Saturday, April 30, 2022
8:00 am – 1:00 pm PT

Pitch-O-Rama is returning in 2022! After our amazing session last year, we are happy to announce that we will be hosting the next Pitch-O-Rama session on April 30th, where writers will have the chance to pitch their works to agents and editors for publication.

Includes pre-pitch coaching.

$65 WNBA members, $95 Non-members

All genders are welcomed!

 

Register to pitch your book idea to agents and publishers! 

Tips for Pitching 2022, CLICK HERE!

Cancellation Policy: Must receive your cancellation notice by midnight on Saturday, April 16th, 2022. Send your request for a refund to: registrar@wnba-sfchapter.org

And don’t forget, Please sign up for the Pre Pitch-o-Rama April 7 AMA, “Ask Me Anything” HERE.

January 14 – Set Yourself Up for Success in 2022: Goal Setting Simplified for Writers

By Admin

Friday, January 14th, 2022
Set Yourself Up for Success in 2022:
Goal Setting Simplified for Writers
12 pm / PT

Free Virtual Event!

 

 

Are you ready to write the next chapter of your life? 

Whether you are a planner or a pantser, there’s lots to learn from award-winning author Debra Eckerling, Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning, and Achieving Your Goals.

During this Lunch N Learn for the Women’s National Book Association – San Francisco Chapter, on January 14 at 12pm PT, Debra will take you through the D*E*B METHOD®, which is her system of Goal-Setting Simplified. DEB stands for Determine Your Mission, Explore Your Options, Brainstorm Your Path

You will:

  • Visualize a successful 2022
  • Take stock of where you are and what you want
  • Create a mission and motto
  • Set personal, professional, and writing goals 
  • And set your planner or pantser self up for success

Start 2022 right! 

Bring your writing dreams and your enthusiasm … And get ready have some fun!

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Ready to reboot your goals now? Grab your copy of Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals and join the Your Goal Guide Facebook group to ask questions and share your journey.

 

About Deb: Goal-Setting expert Debra Eckerling is the author of the award-winning Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning, and Achieving Your Goals and creator of the D*E*B METHOD® system of goal-setting simplified. Deb is on a mission to change goal-culture! A workshop leader and corporate consultant, she helps entrepreneurs, executives, and individuals figure out what they want and how to get it. 

Debra is also the founder of Write On Online, a website and community for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, as well as host of the #GoalChat Twitter chat (Sundays at 7pm PT @TheDEBMethod), #GoalChat Live on Facebook and LinkedIn (Mondays at 4pm PT), and The DEB Show podcast. Learn more at TheDEBMethod.com, follow @TheDEBMethod on social media, and reach out to Info@TheDEBMethod.com.


About the Book: One of the biggest reasons goals fail is that people often don’t put enough thought into what they really want before diving in. Your Goal Guide by Debra Eckerling starts with that first, crucial step: figuring out your goals and putting a plan in place. Eckerling presents readers with her own tested and proven method: the D*E*B METHOD®, a brainstorming and task-based system, which stands for: Determine Your Mission, Explore Your Options, Brainstorm Your Path. Through a combination of writing exercises and systems, Eckerling provides readers with a process for making and setting goals that is stress-free, easy-to-manage, and even fun.

 

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