I have no words for what the last three days were. It’s been an unbelievable ride for all of us behind the scenes here at WriteOnCon.
We thank you for all the retweets, the blog posts, the excitement in the forum, and the participation in the live chats. Shannon’s dancing was epic.
We extend a major thanks to our panelists, workshop presenters, and conference professionals. Remember to click here to buy some amazing books!
First, there’s been a change in the prize drawing. We’ve decided to extend both of them through the weekend. This is mostly because I was late getting them up.
So click here to enter to win a 15-page critique from editor Daniel Nayeri.
And here to enter to win a query critique from one of the five of us WriteOnCon organizers!
Some of you have had questions about what will happen in the forums now that the conference is over. Click here for information.
As always, if you missed anything from this morning or while you were at work, or whatever, here is the schedule, all linked up to the events. And you can always access our archives. We do have transcripts (including video!) of the chats.
Thank you, and good night!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
6:00 AM: Writing With a Real Life by author Lindsey Leavitt
7:00 AM: Writing Advice from PJ Hoover and the Texas Sweethearts
8:00 AM: Writing Realistic, Captivating Dialog by author Tom Leveen
8:30 AM: Author Branding by author Shelli Johannes-Wells
9:00 AM: How to have a Successful Author Event at a Bookstore by Calondra McArthur
10:00 AM: Q&A by literary agent Steven Malk
10:30 AM: Writing a Complete Story Even Though it’s Part of a Trilogy by author Michelle Zink
11:00 AM: From Submission to Acquisition: An Editor’s Choose Your Own Adventure by editor Martha Mihalick
12:00 PM: Transitioning from Adult to YA by author Risa Green
1:00 PM: Rhyme in Picture Books by author Tiffany Strelitz
1:30 PM: Meter, Meter, Sleep Depleter by author Tiffany Strelitz
2:00 PM: The First Five Pages by Kathleen Ortiz (3 part series, part 2, part 3)
3:00 PM: Writing Thrillers for Young Adults by author Kimberly Derting
3:30 PM: Picture Books and Easy Readers by author Shelley Thomas
4:00 PM: Staying positive in the face of rejections by author Crystal Stranaghan
5:00 PM: Avoiding Character Stereotypes by literary agent Mary Kole
6:00 PM: Creating New Mythologies by author Aprilynne Pike
9:00 PM: Panel of Professionals chat LIVE (Michelle Andelman, Molly O’Neill, Kate Testerman)
Ok, ladies. Time for all of you to take a bow and accept your giant bouquets of flowers. Thank you SO MUCH for all the time and effort you put into this conference.
Thank you so much for a truly awesome conference. I so appreciate all your hard work to make it happen. It feels like you are making history or something. I’d love to help you work on the next conference and whatever comes next. Hope you get lots of rest this weekend.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You all are so awesome for doing this! Now go get some rest!
A very good night to you, Elana. You should all sleep well because you pulled off something epic and amazingly generous. Thank you WriteOnCon gang from the bottom of my heart.
You guys are rock stars!! Thank you so much for pulling this together, for your tireless work, and many thanks to all the agents, editors and writers that took time from their busy schedules to share with us. This was an amazing event.
Picture me slowly standing up out of my chair and doing the slow clap with that teary “my child just rocked her recital” look. My clapping increases pace and now I’m whooping and hollering in appreciation. This is how I feel about the amazing ladies of WriteOnCon. You all did a fabulous job!! Heaps of thanks to you and the industry professionals who participated.
Thank you! This was amazing! To the ladies who organized this you did an incredible, fabulous, wonderful job.
*throws flowers and bacon*
To the industry professionals who gave so generously of your time, my heartfelt gratitude. I have learned so much in the past three days!
Thanks to everybody!
Thank you guys for something that was truly amazing!!!
I had a blast. This definitely gave me some wonderful information and help for my own WIP and I’m sure it did for countless others too. I’m also thankful you let me write my own post for the event and hopefully it helped some writers out there wondering how they heck to do promoting!
Thank you Elana, Lisa, Laura, Casey, Shannon, and Jamie for organizing this amazing conference. And thanks to all the editors, agents, and authors for their generosity and advice.
Thank you guys for everything! It’s been awesome!
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
It was a great conference and I learned a ton of new things!
Well done guys, this conference has been FANTASTIC!!! Bring on next year
I thought an online conference would be fun, but I didn’t realize how great it would be. Thank you WriteOnCon ladies for all your tireless work. And thank you presenters for sharing your insight and great tips.
Thank you for your love of writing. Thank you for your love of writers. Thank you for not settling for “how things should be done” and paving your own way. Thank you for offering up something fresh. Thank you for not giving up when things were difficult. Thank you for kicking Forbidden 403 in the tail. Thank you for having a dream. Thank you for “FREE.” Thank you for using your talents. Thank you for all the advice and suggestions you humbly hand out from your tweets, blogs, emails, and forums. Thank you ladies so much. Now go on vacation and don’t worry, we’ll all still be writing.
Thank you for all your time, effort, imagination, and perseverance!
I just can’t thank you all enough for the past three days! It’s been incredible, interesting, informative, exciting, thought-provoking and FUN. I’ve soaked up so much writing stuffs it should be oozing from my pores. heh. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all! *hugs*
Let’s do it again!!
I already went on in my blog about all this, but — You guys are utterly fantastic. All your hard work and dedication is more appreciated than I can put into words! I can’t wait for next year’s!
There aren’t thanks enough to express how wonderful this has been! You ladies all deserve a round of applause and so much more. The presenters and contributors were amazing. So much information to take in and process. It’s been wonderful. Thanks again.
This was the most EPIC, coolest thing on the internet EVER!
In life, there are those people who ask WHY?
The WriteOnCon founders asked WHY NOT?
I thank you ladies from the bottom of my heart for giving so much of yourselves. You created wonder where there once was a void.
WoW.
Shelley
You guys are bringing me to tears. Thank you!!! <33 So glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you ladies so much for this writing convention. I’ve learned so much and if/when I do finally get published I know I will owe some of the credit to you all. And I honestly can’t wait until Write On Con 2!
This was awesome. And speaking as a working stiff with a VERY shifty schedule, I loved being able to come back here and catch up on all the wonderful stuff. In fact, I’m still not done looking at everything!
You guys rock.
Such a brilliant idea and executed with such professionalism. Thanks so much for giving international writers like myself the opportunity to learn from the US pros. It’s an opportunity I otherwise would not have had and I’m very grateful. *sends virtual Tim Tams (yummy Aussie chocolate biscuits)*
Thank you so much to all of the Writeoncon organizers. This was my very 1st kidlit writer’s conference and I was able to tap into so much wisdom – all from the comfort of my sweats and t-shirt! The fact that it was free was a true blessing!
Truely impressed with the work you all put into getting this con together.
Truely impressed with the information available in all the wonderful events.
I never got to see any live events because once I got the message “Waiting for sync.adap.tv…” nothing happened, except for the comments shown in the list. Probably slow Australian network or I am lacking some program to make it happen.Not to worry.
However, even without the live events, I got over 105 pages of notes in a word doc with very narrow margins.
Now to print out the pages, bind, and fall into bed to read through the wonderful information again and sleep until I catch up on what I missed to attend this con.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for all of your hard work! Now I just have to apply what I’ve learned.
Thank you again for all your hard work, dedication and most of all, your valuable time.
Well, every conference is as good as its attendees. You guys have been amazing — so thank you!
I had a great time at your conference! Thank you for a wonderful and informative three days.
I can’t say THANK YOU enough. This was awesome and I know a huge amount of work for so many.
Cyber cheer to you all and a big thanks!!!!
Paula
Words can’t describe how impressed I am by this conference. The people, generosity, and wealth of information has been a dream come true! I couldn’t have hoped for a better experience and some of the posts are going to remain prime resources for me and my writing for a very long time. Congratulations on a job well done you guys!
Congratulations on running a wonderful event. I had a great time and learned a lot. Thank you so much for doing this for us writers.
Thanks, this was really great! I hope you have the stamina to do it all again next year.
Ditto, and ditto, and ditto, and ditto…
This has truly been a great experience. I really, really hope there’s a Writeoncon 2011 in the works! ;D
Thank you for all the incredible time, effort and love you put into this. It was an amazing event.
This was fantastic conference. Thank you for all your efforts. I know it was a lot to pull off, and you guys were fabu-fabu-FABUlous!
THANK YOU Elana, Lisa, Laura, Casey, Shannon, and Jamie for a truly UNBELIEVABLE conference. My hat’s off to of you for all the hard work you put in to make something AMAZING happen.
And a huge THANK YOU to all the agents, editors and authors who took time away from their busy schedules to share their knowledge with us and make WriteOnCon an experience that no one will ever forget.
WRITEONCON ROCKS!!!
Thank you all for your inspiration and education. To many more times together!
Amazing job to you all. Can’t wait till next year. You should be proud of your hard work and efforts.
Many thanks to all the organizers and industry pros who gave their time and talent to make this conference a great success! Now I hope you guys can get some much deserved rest.
I cannot believe how much I learned from writeoncon.
Sure, I knew a few things beforehand. But what I wasn’t prepared for was how personal this event was; and how it made the learning more absorbable. Amazing.
Thank you to all the wonderful authors, agents and editors who helped us learn even more, and made it applicable to our works in progress.
I took notes, made new friends, and can’t wait for next time!
I was so busy yesterday that I didn’t have much time for the conference, but I plan on catching up this weekend. Thanks for putting this on. It was awesome!
Thank you so much for this – despite the technical issues, this was a FABULOUS experience and I look forward to going back and revisiting everything because the amount of relevant information was a bit overwhelming the first time around.
Thank you to the coordinators for your hard work – it is very appreciated! And also a big thank you to the presenters – a top-notch group of industry professionals that all contributed in great ways.
Awesomeness!