Comments on: RWA http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/ Weblog of National Bestselling, Award-Winning Novelist Sylvia Day Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:27:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Sylvia http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/comment-page-2/#comment-762 Sylvia Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:21:54 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/#comment-762 Yes, Cece is right about the multiple online chapters. I didn't join Outreach. I joined <a href="http://www.rwaonlinechapter.org" rel="external">RWAOnline</a>. And Alison, that is too cool about the MICA Award. :mrgreen: Yes, Cece is right about the multiple online chapters. I didn’t join Outreach. I joined RWAOnline.

And Alison, that is too cool about the MICA Award. :mrgreen:

]]> By: Cece http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/comment-page-2/#comment-760 Cece Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:15:48 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/#comment-760 Alison I never thought you were badmouthing and I can definitely see where you are coming from :razz: Even I can see the push/pull of cliques and it makes me not want to get involved. :???: Kate I agree about Pro :roll: Sasha there is more than one online chapter :smile: Alison I never thought you were badmouthing and I can definitely see where you are coming from :razz: Even I can see the push/pull of cliques and it makes me not want to get involved. :???:

Kate I agree about Pro :roll:

Sasha there is more than one online chapter :smile:

]]> By: Kate Rothwell http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Kate Rothwell Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:55:30 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/#comment-758 oops . . ."bound to have some good repercussions" I mean ALL of these discussions about the RWA running around the blog world!! oops . . .”bound to have some good repercussions” I mean ALL of these discussions about the RWA running around the blog world!!

]]> By: Kate Rothwell http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Kate Rothwell Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:53:29 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/#comment-757 so what would be the ideal organization for pubbed authors? something more along the lines of the authors' guild? I have a similar discussion going on in my blog. It's bound to have some good repercussions -- food for thought and perhaps someday growth (says the optimist.) I know my crit partners, the ones who're all-but-pubbed, don't get a lot out of RWA meetings now. They don't need to work on craft (heck, they're better than a lot of people who hold the workshops). They can't join PAN, PRO might be good someday but it's not really informative YET. I wonder what the organization could do for them. . .I guess PRO was that answer. so what would be the ideal organization for pubbed authors? something more along the lines of the authors’ guild?

I have a similar discussion going on in my blog. It’s bound to have some good repercussions — food for thought and perhaps someday growth (says the optimist.)

I know my crit partners, the ones who’re all-but-pubbed, don’t get a lot out of RWA meetings now. They don’t need to work on craft (heck, they’re better than a lot of people who hold the workshops). They can’t join PAN, PRO might be good someday but it’s not really informative YET.

I wonder what the organization could do for them. . .I guess PRO was that answer.

]]> By: Annette http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/comment-page-1/#comment-750 Annette Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:24:45 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/#comment-750 Hear, hear, Alison! Sorry, if I came across too preachy! My intent was only 'different strokes for different folks', which you graciously echoed. Hear, hear, Alison!

Sorry, if I came across too preachy! My intent was only ‘different strokes for different folks’, which you graciously echoed.

]]> By: Teresa http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Teresa Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:12:57 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/#comment-747 I've been seriously considering joining a few of the RWA special interest chapters and finally made the decision to go for it recently. Right after the first of the year I plan to join RWA online and the Paranormal chapter. I really want to join the KOD chapter also. But we'll see. I've been a member of GRW, my local chapter, for two years (well it'll be two in March 2005) and have learned so much. I get so much out of going to the meetings it amazes me. I’ve been seriously considering joining a few of the RWA special interest chapters and finally made the decision to go for it recently. Right after the first of the year I plan to join RWA online and the Paranormal chapter. I really want to join the KOD chapter also. But we’ll see.

I’ve been a member of GRW, my local chapter, for two years (well it’ll be two in March 2005) and have learned so much. I get so much out of going to the meetings it amazes me.

]]> By: Alison Kent http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Alison Kent Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:30:51 +0000 http://www.sylviaday.com/blog/2004/12/28/248/#comment-740 You know, we all have reasons for joining or not joining, for giving or not giving. And that changes over the years. I first found out about RWA when I moved from Dallas to Houston in 1989 and met author Nikki Benjamin who writes for Silhouette and lived in the same area of town I did. I joined, loved it. Met Christina Dodd and Susan Wiggs and Kimberly Raye and Nina Bangs and my very best friend in the writing world, Jan Freed. At the time I joined, the chapter advisor was author Jan Hudson. She asked me to take over as secretary when the current officer had to vacate. I did. Loved it. I wrote newsletter articles. I organized the chapter's first big conference in years. (BTW, this is the NorthWest Houston chapter of RWA - the original chapter! This is where I first met Evan Fogelman, Erica Spindler, Marsha Zinberg, etc. Many many industry professionals who inspired me.) I also started the first chapter contest. In fact, they still give the "MICA Award" today, named after me. But all of this was before I was published. And it was before a lot of life altering things happened. A divorce, a move, kids in therapy, being the only monetary support for many many years. Then I sold. And I was still active. But I also found the online community of GEnie RomEx in 1993 - and that changed my life! So, you have to consider that I have FIFTEEN years of experience in RWA. I'm not coming at this like I've never done anything and badmouthing the organization because I don't like it. I've loved it for years. I've given and given and given. I've hugged and inspired and all those touchy feely things. *ggg* But a funny thing happened on the way to the farm . . . what I gave did NOT come back to me tenfold. I couldn't get answers I needed because of so many cliques that only shared their knowledge with their members. Because I was published, aspiring authors were intimidated (which is dumb as a rock *gg*). And because I was newly published, other published authors were wary in their welcome. Was I good enough? Was I going to take their slots? Maybe as a new member today, the organization is different. But as a LONG time member, I don't get anything out of it except socialization. Which is fine. I love going to the conference each year and knowing I'll see my friends, I'll get to be wined and dined by editors, and go to faboo parties! You know, we all have reasons for joining or not joining, for giving or not giving. And that changes over the years. I first found out about RWA when I moved from Dallas to Houston in 1989 and met author Nikki Benjamin who writes for Silhouette and lived in the same area of town I did. I joined, loved it. Met Christina Dodd and Susan Wiggs and Kimberly Raye and Nina Bangs and my very best friend in the writing world, Jan Freed.

At the time I joined, the chapter advisor was author Jan Hudson. She asked me to take over as secretary when the current officer had to vacate. I did. Loved it. I wrote newsletter articles. I organized the chapter’s first big conference in years. (BTW, this is the NorthWest Houston chapter of RWA - the original chapter! This is where I first met Evan Fogelman, Erica Spindler, Marsha Zinberg, etc. Many many industry professionals who inspired me.)

I also started the first chapter contest. In fact, they still give the “MICA Award” today, named after me.

But all of this was before I was published. And it was before a lot of life altering things happened. A divorce, a move, kids in therapy, being the only monetary support for many many years. Then I sold. And I was still active. But I also found the online community of GEnie RomEx in 1993 - and that changed my life!

So, you have to consider that I have FIFTEEN years of experience in RWA. I’m not coming at this like I’ve never done anything and badmouthing the organization because I don’t like it. I’ve loved it for years. I’ve given and given and given. I’ve hugged and inspired and all those touchy feely things. *ggg* But a funny thing happened on the way to the farm . . . what I gave did NOT come back to me tenfold. I couldn’t get answers I needed because of so many cliques that only shared their knowledge with their members. Because I was published, aspiring authors were intimidated (which is dumb as a rock *gg*). And because I was newly published, other published authors were wary in their welcome. Was I good enough? Was I going to take their slots?

Maybe as a new member today, the organization is different. But as a LONG time member, I don’t get anything out of it except socialization. Which is fine. I love going to the conference each year and knowing I’ll see my friends, I’ll get to be wined and dined by editors, and go to faboo parties!

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