Madeline Hunter, CRW, and Changing My Blog

Today is the first Saturday of the month so I went to the CRW (Carolina Romance Writers) meeting in Charlotte. The guest speaker was Madeline Hunter and I must say that she was absolutely fabulous. The title of the workshop was "The Book That Writes Itself." It was mostly about conflict and it was EXTREMELY helpful. Leila and Van from my Nocturne Bite are getting a complete rewrite.

Some soundbites from the workshop

-"think like an editor"
-"the conflict is the engine that moves the book"
-"a good story must have compelling characters and a plot"
-"attraction is the pull. conflict is the push"

If you ever get a chance to hear her give a workshop, you should do it. She's a good speaker and her speeches have content. That is very hard to find.

On my blog...Google is a truly wonderful tool. I've been trying to figure out how to edit my HTML to give me a 3 column template for three weeks. I gave up and googled it. It guided me to any number of sites that gave me step by step instructions. I used them and now I have a three column template!! Yea!!