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January 19, 2010, 5:30-7:30pm. Get Published Now! meeting: Topic to be announced . Sign up at the Get Published Now! meetup.com event page. Location: Oakland Public Library, Piedmont Ave. Branch Library, 160 41st St., Oakland, CA 94611. Cost: Free.
January 26, 2010. Happy Hour Blogging with the Breakfast Blogging Club , topics vary each workshop. Meets monthly in San Francisco Bay Area locations. Check the About page for all the sign-up details. Contact Beth to sign up now, or sign up through our Meetup page -- We only have limited seats per workshop. Cost: $15
If you ever wanted to get a blogging program in action in a supportive group environment, then check out this new program in partnership with Marketing Expert, Cheryl Liquori.
January 27, 2010, 7-9pm, "12 Stages of the Writer’s Adventure: Write from the Inside Out." Presentation at Laurel Bookstore, Oakland, CA.
Authors and Aspiring Authors, You're invited to a fun workshop to write more powerfully from the inside out.
Join us for an evening of exploration and adventure as author and book coach, Beth Barany, helps you to:
- deepen your relationship with the book writing process
- connect to creative fire
- increase your creative flow
- find the fun and joy in every stage of the book writing process.
This workshop uses the 12 stages of the Hero's Journey, based on Joseph Campbell’s work, and highlighted in Beth Barany's new book, The Writer's Adventure Guide: 12 Stages to Writing your Book. In this hands-on workshop, learn how to view personal challenges and goals through your hero's journey,
Learn about the 12 stages of book writing - These 12 stages correspond with the start, middle and end of writing your book. Organic and intuitive, you will feel like you've known these stages all your life. Once uncovered, they will prove to be powerful and useful tools all along your book writing adventure. By using and following the wisdom of the 12 stages of the writer's adventure, you will write and complete your book.
In Stage 2, Create a game plan for writing your book - Plan your book before you start it.
In Stages 3, 4, and 12, Organize and receive support for the writing process - Writers may write alone, but we writers write for an audience, and need support throughout our writing process. I will show you how to build support into every step of your adventure, so you are not alone.
In Stage 5, Implement strategies to stay motivated - If we know what gets us stuck, then we can determine how to unstick, and get back to writing.
In Stage 12, Investigate your publishing options - Self-publish? New York publisher? Independent press? E-publishing? Blog-to-book?
In this hands-on workshop, clarify your goals and your vision for you as the writer, and embrace your main writer archetype and learn how it can work for you.
Join us!
Cost: $20, and this includes a signed copy of the book, The Writer's Adventure Guide, from the author, Beth Barany.
Register: Contact Luan Stauss, Laurel Bookstore to register today! Seats are limited.
Prepare for the talk by getting the free report, "12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure" here.
February 4 to March, 25, 2010, Authors: Attract Your Audience Before You Write the Book, 8-week tele-class. Space is limited. Sign up here.
February 9, 2010, 9-11:30am. Breakfast Blogging Club monthly morning workshop, topics vary each workshop. Meets monthly in San Francisco Bay Area locations. Check the About page for all the sign-up details. Contact Beth to sign up now, or sign up through our Meetup page -- We only have limited seats per workshop. Cost: $15
If you ever wanted to get a blogging program in action in a supportive group environment, then check out this new program in partnership with Marketing Expert, Cheryl Liquori.
August 6 through September 6, 2010 Social Networking for Unpublished and Published Authors A Month-long Online Writing Workshop through the Red River Romance Writers, an RWA Chapter. Check the Red River Romance Writers site for all the sign up details. Sign up by August 5, 2010.
You may think that social networking as an author is only for published authors. But actually authors at all stages of their career can use the tools of Twitter, Facebook and blogging (and more!)
If you only learn and implement a few important strategies, you will find that social networking can fit into your busy life, and help grow your career.
In this class, learn how to:
- Get clear on the purpose of your online presence
- Set up your user profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and Plaxo based on your purpose
- Build your base of friends/fans/followers
- Craft useful and effective content aligned with your purpose
- Use your social networking time effectively
- Create a plan for change, as your career changes
September 25, 2010, Presentation at Sacramento Valley Rose Romance Writer's of America chapter.
Topic: Procrastination is the Mother of All Evils: Why You're Blocked and What to do About It. How many times have you stared at the blinking cursor on your computer screen and wanted to tear your hair out? So, instead of writing, you got up and did the dishes, or folded the laundry, or even cleaned the cat box?!
If this is your life, then you just suffered from the Mother of All Evils for a writer: Procrastination. We can forever use the excuse of all those other duties and allow them to come between us and our writing, but in the end we only cheat ourselves, for at the end of the day and at the end our lives, it won't matter that we kept a clean house. What will matter will be the body of work we've left behind and all the lives we touched through our art.
In this hands-on workshop for published and unpublished authors, instructor, Beth Barany, will take the attendees through a series of short exercises designed to 1) trick the internal editor; 2) foil the freezing fear; and 3) face the story and get the writing done.
Attendees will walk out of the workshop with an arsenal of tricks to lob at the evil monster of procrastination, so whenever it shows up they never have to fear the blank page again. Exercises in this two-hour hands on workshop will include: 60-second Writing Bursts, Emotions vs. Facts, Goal vs. Journey, A 15-minute Writing Prompt, Brainstorming Cards, and the Writer's Tarot.
October 2010 2nd Annual Creativity Conference, Lake George, NY, sponsored the Creativity Coaching Association
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> PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
December 14, 2009, 7-9pm. Featured Presenter at Spoken Word event, Word Dancing, a monthly word and music series with open mic. It's A Grind Coffee House, San Francisco, CA. Organizer: Jeanne Powell.
September 26, 2009 Silicon Valley Romance Writer's of America chapter. Topic: Social Networking for Authors. Read the event summary here.
World's Hidden Masters. 3-day event, San Francisco, CA, August 2009. Topic: The 8 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Book.
San Mateo County Fair, Cultural Arts Stage, August 2009. Topic: Fairytales, Tarot and Brainstorming: How to Make Story Plotting Fun.
National Romance Writer's of America, Washington D.C., July 2009. Topic: The 12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure.
Oakland Public Library, Piedmont Ave,. Branch, April 2009. Topic: How to get Published Clinic.
San Francisco IABC Independent Communicators, San Francisco, CA, April 2009. Topic: An Independent Communicator's Playshop: Stage 1 of the Writer Entrepreneurs's Adventure: Start From Where You Are.
Black Diamond RWA Chapter, Antioch, CA, March 2009. Topic: Procrastination: The Mother All Evils.
Gilroy Public Library, Gilroy, CA, January 2009. Topic: Mythic Structure for Writers: Empower Your Heroic, Fantasy,and Adventure Fiction!.
Creativity Coaching Conference, Lake George, NY, October 2008. Topic: A Creative in Business: You are the Hero in this Creative Adventure.
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> PAST ONLINE/TELE-CALL WORKSHOPS
Online Writing Workshop through the Low Country RWA Chapter, October 2009 Topic: Overcome Writer's Block
Presenter at the 2009 Muse Online Writer's Conference. Topic: 12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure.
Online Writing Workshop through the Low Country RWA Chapter, February 2009 Topic: Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction for Young Adults.
Online Class in partnership with The National Networker, November 2008 Topic: Make Money While You Sleep: How to Write E-Books in Four Weeks.
Presenter at the Muse Online Writer's Conference, October 2008 Topic: The 12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure.
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> MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Beth "applies some very interesting techniques to help her clients 'uncover the hidden diamond within.' " -- LitMinds.org, interviewing Beth about her work as a creativity coach.
Read her interview here.
> RADIO
Contact Beth for interviews and as an on-air guest for call-in shows. She thrives in on-the-spot problem solving to your creativity and writing problems.
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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & WORKSHOPS
Beth travels to speaking engagements and workshops at conferences for 20-100+ people. Contact her for schedule availability. She will tailor to the needs of your writing group, writing association or business, and speaks on such topics:
"Call to Action: The Writer's Adventure"
"Creativity Techiques to Fill the Well"
Fairytales, Brainstorming Cards & Tarot: How to Plot Quickly and have Fun too! The handout is available.
Bring Magic into Your Fiction
Book Writing from A to Z for Fiction Writers: Character. Plot and Passion, the Winning Combination
How to Craft a Winning Query Letter
How to Win Over an Agent with Your Elevator Pitch
Prime the Mind: Develop a Writing Discipline
Navigate the Maze of Self-Publishing
So You Want to Write a Nonfiction Book! Now what?
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“Beth's workshop was great. It helped me explore the ideas that had been floating around in my head for years. I learned things about myself and my writing skill.” -- Zana Lugo, Ameriprise
“This is to acknowledge Beth Barany and her workshop. As a writer and publisher of personal growth related human interest stories, and as one with over tweny years' experience attending and facilitating a multitude of personal growth workshops, seminars and conferences, I highly recommend Beth and this workshop. I found the experience to be informative, revealing and even playful. I would encourage anyone wishing to have accurate and meaningful insight on their "inner journey" to participate in this experience.”
-- Don Kirschner, Founding Director at the Society for Return to Honor
“If you're like me and you've always wanted to write a book, but didn't quite understand how, Beth's instruction is an excellent resource.”
-- David Kwong, Berkeley, CA
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