WELCOME MEMBERS And VISITORS! 🌠🎆💥👍.

Welcome to FAW 2024!!!

 

Welcome to 2024! It will be a year of great FAW events, and fascinating speakers. If you are a member, watch your mail. 

Want to join FAW? You can also do it on-line, at our Join Us page. Fill out the form and then pay using PayPal or your credit card.

New!:  The FAW Bookshelf is now available. See the books FAW writers have published. If you are a member and your book is not there, send a jpeg of your cover, a link to where the book can be bought and a one sentence summary to Scott Davidson.

FAW Needs You!!!

We need volunteers for the following unelected FAW Board Positions:

Hospitality Chair

welcomes, introduces, contacts, & encourages newcomers to join FAW

Service Coordinator

finds & assigns helpers to assist FAW committee heads

Membership Chair

collects new member info & updates CWC data base, co-ordinates w/ FAW Treasurer

If you are interested in any of these roles, please contact any FAW Board Member or come to our General Meeting the fourth Saturday of every month except July and December. Details about our next General Meeting are below.

New!: The full CWC Users Manual is available here. It’s a 190 page pdf, so be warned.

The March 2024 Ink Spots Newsletter is now available on the Newsletter Page.

You can submit your Shout Out to Ink Spots on the Newsletter page also, using a handy form.

All FAW members will receive a Zoom information the Tuesday or Wednesday before the next meeting in March, which is March 23 and will feature Julie Artz. Details are below. Not a member? You can join FAW today on our Join Us page.  But anyone can attend by requesting Zoom information from Scott Davidson. 

Come to the Zoom Write-in, second Saturday of Each Month.

Our  next write-in will be March 9.  Get Zoom information from Scott Davidson

Here are some pictures from the 2023 Holiday Party

Myles Garcia & Pat Doyne at the Sign In Table, Knuti & Jan  Small observe, &

Jo Ann Frisch signs in

                                

 

Anita Tosh, Sajal Ghosh & Cher Chin eat & chat

lower left cw: Marie Blanchard, Dave Strom & Steve Yuen

center: Paul Davis

standing: Knuti cw: Leticia Escalera, Jan & Jo Ann

Paul reads from his published work.

Scott gets ready to pub quiz

 

Evelyn LaTorre gets ready to  read from 

her book Between Inca Walls

foreground left ccw: Evelyn, Tish Davidson & Scott Davidson

mid-ground right: Myles & Dave

background right: Cher, Sajal, Pat, Marie, Jan, & Paul

 

 

 The March President’s Message from Terry Tosh is now available. See below.

See all the Shelter in Place (SIP) notes here. Click on the one you want, or scroll down to see them in reverse order.

We are now up to SIP Note 55!!!

Send questions and comments about the FAW Website to Scott Davidson  

New!!!! See all our upcoming events on the FAW Calendar

 

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Terry Tosh, FAW President

President’s Message  – March 2024

In like a LION?
MARCH tends to remind me of just how quickly time passes and how intensely things move along in our quest to provide information and opportunities to our faithful and talented  community of writers and their support persons. The very sound of the name of this month ushers into mind an image of strength, ability and determination. After all, who doesn’t picture the various mental impressions of fellow beings gathering and banding together to MARCH for a cause to bring awareness to the world of whatever passion they share?
Let’s MARCH into this month with confidence that we, as individuals and a group of dedicated fellow learners and teachers, are going to contribute our time, energy, knowledge, and a willingness to stretch ourselves mentally and physically towards our hopes and visions for achieving new heights of success in all we endeavor.
Thank you all, once again, for making it a joy and pleasure to be a part of this dynamic team known as Fremont Area Writers. It’s an honor to be your president.
Be sure to familiarize yourself with the opportunities local and statewide that are presented in this month’s issue of Ink Spots.
Be thinking about what you can do to share your personal talent and abilities with others by joining our leadership team in the upcoming election cycle that will be held in June! We would love to have you join the FAW leadership team to help us strategize and implement plans for our future endeavors. We will show you the ropes if you decide to join the Board in any capacity.
Here’s to your continuing journey into excellence with
your writing and all your creative pursuits!
 
Here’s to living your best writing life!
Terry

Now Held Online

 

 

micWriter’s Salon
7-9 p.m.

 fourth Monday of the month.

 

 

 

 

 
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Get Involved with FAW

Fremont Area Writers has lots of great volunteer opportunities! 

If you’d like to to make a positive contribution to these projects please, contact Sue Curtzwiler smcurtzwiler@comcast.net

 

 

 

News! 

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Elevator-Speech-Polishing Event frequently

Frequently, visitors and new members get an opportunity to practice their 30-second “elevator speech”, introducing themselves and their projects. 

An elevator speech isn’t social chit chat or  a biography.  It’s a quick teaser to use at professional events, like conferences, where agents and publishers are looking for product to sell.  Each of them is looking for specific types of product that they have a market for.  If they don’t need what you have to sell, you need to move on and keep moving until you find your possible connections. 

Once you’ve each introduced yourself with your name and role (Author, Agent, Publisher) you have 30 seconds to let them know what you have to offer: Your book’s genre, target audience, plus a couple of interesting details  and what support you’re seeking.

IF that’s what they’re looking for, you exchange more information.  If not, you exchange quick pleasantries and move on until you find a more suitable match.

You may need to present to many, many people before you meet one who’s after exactly your project.  with the right needs.  While it’s important to be congenial, it’s not time for normal socializing .

After thirty seconds, if you haven’t already moved on, your contact will either be interested or be scanning the room for their next prospect.

THIRTY SECONDS!  You can polish and refine this vital skill and get feedback afterward, at  break.  Going over that time at a conference  risks losing your new contact’s interest or creating a situation where they feel like they can’t get away from you. 

Going over that time at an FAW meeting will only get you buzzed, because, though we love you,  we have other agenda items and only if everyone sticks to thirty second introductions, afterwards we’ll only have 30 minutes of meeting time left! 

So start planning your next elevator speech now.  Time it out, and we’ll see you at the next meeting!

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Anyone have a productive Agent that would be a good speaker for an FAW meeting?  We need someone who’s current and can give productive tips to our members about how to choose the right agent, then how to work with them.  Please email Knuti

Kudos! 

Fremont CWC Bay Area Writers

 

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