The Muse Online Writers Conference

The ONLY online conference of its kind!

Affiliated with the award-winning sites and Writer's Digest Top 101 Writing Sites of 2005 & 2006 The MuseItUp Club & Apollo's Lyre

    
 
Our conference is FREE but ask if you can donate to help support this site and our cause (to continue offering you FREE workshops each year).  Your generosity is appreciated.
 
OUR 2007 CONFERENCE A WHOPPING SUCCESS!!!!
Please take note our domain name is now:
 

 
 
contributing author and editor
 
Lea Schizas (The MuseItUp Club)

and

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's (Authors Coalition)

FRUGAL

          

                                                                                                                            
 
Each of the three books above are a MUST to have in your home library. The Muse On Writing helps you complete a book from start to finish. The Frugal Editor will help you in your editing stage. Frugal Book Promoter will guide you to promote and market your book.
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We now have a Conference Cooler where you can go, relax, and pose writing questions amongst fellow writers. We also have a conference blog to keep you abreast on our conference.
 
 
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Compliments of the Muse Online Writers' Conference 2006 - Two exclusive interviews for conference registrants:
 
Piers Anthony
1) Download an eBook detailing an interview with Piers Anthony. Enjoy this lengthy interview by one of the greatest and most prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of all time. Questions supplied by members of the Museitup Club. Edited by Kathe Gogolewski.
 
Larsen and Pomada Literary Agency
2) Download a Podcast (Audio File) interview with Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, owners of the oldest literary agency in San Francisco. This hour long interview is packed with information for writers. Interview conducted by Joyce Faulkner and Kathe Gogolewski.
 
A Twisted Tale about Twisted Tails
3) The article in that eBook entitled “Tips for Writers: How Did Twisted Tails Become a Best-seller within Days of Publication?” by Marilyn Peake was voted a TOP TEN Finisher in the "Nonfiction Articles" Category of the 2006 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll.

 
 

Comments about

The Muse Online Conference:

From the Larsen and Pomada Literary Agency:

Dear Lea: Congrats! Your website looks great!

From Betty Jo Tucker - Lead Film Critic for ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Dear Lea,
 
Your Muse Online Writer's Conference idea deserves acclaim and applause!

From Author Katie Hines:
"Really awesome idea.  The site looks great and I can't wait to sign up!"

From Author Michael Thai:

Dear Lea, The writer's conference idea is brilliant. I've gone to a few and  always left frustrated, just wanting to give up. Why? Because 12 years  ago I started losing my hearing. Yes, I wear hearing aides, and the new  ones I just bought are very helpful, but I miss so much in a room  filled with people talking. And even when one person speaks, when they  turn their head or worse, talk with their back to the audience while  writing something on the white board, I'm lost. At the Muse's Writing  Conference I'll be on an even playing field. I'm very excited. THANK YOU.

From Naomi Rose-Founder of Essential Writing

"Dear Lea, I just got to your site about the Online Conference through Fran Silverman's Book Promotion newsletter, and it really is a stroke of genius, and looks wonderful. "

From the Deidre Knight Agency:

"Super cool idea!!! I do think it's a fantastic idea."

From Author K. L. Nappier:

"I think it's an absolutely brilliant idea! A real forehead slapper, as in 'Wow! Why hasn't anyone thought of this before!' VERY excited about the whole concept, Lea, and eager to learn more. Once again, many kudos for being the pioneering force behind such a terrific concept."

"Just got the word from Marilyn Peake, Lea, about the presenters' book store. Is there nothing you and Carolyn haven't thought of!? This is gonna be great!"

From S. W. Vaughn - Author - Freelance Writer

Hi Lea,
Wow -- this IS a great idea! You're right; it's amazing no one's thought of doing it before. And you've done such an excellent job putting it all together!

From Barbara Ortscheid - Writer

Lea,

This is an amazing project you proposed. Your energy and enthusiam are enough to get me all excited about it. With your expertise and knowledge, it will be a rousing success. This is certainly unique and promises much. It should go over well. Please sign me up immediately before it gets filled up. More power to you. You are something else! Please send some of your energy my way.

From Erica Miner - Author

Lea Schizas is a writer and editor par excellence.  I’m ready to throw myself into anything she signs her name to.  ‘Muse Online Writers Conference?’  Fabulous idea.  Sign me up!
 



 

Lea Schizas' Ten Writing Tips to Live By:
 
1- Say to yourself: "I AM a writer!" repeat this as often as necesary and more so when you're feeling down in the dumps. Writers go through spells of uncertainty. All you have to remember is the 'why you write' reason and that original passion will come back.
 
2- Avoid the naysayers. Do not allow them to take time away from your writing. You are in charge, remember this.
 
3- Challenge yourself at times. Committing and writing 500 words a day needs a cheer but challenging yourself to write that extra word will help you complete a project that much faster.
 
4- Have fun! If you begin to feel strangled, sitting by the computer staring at a blank screen, or blocked at a certain passage then step away for a spell. Allow your mind a rest. Perhaps work on something totally different than your present genre project. After some time has passed only then go back.
 
5- Buy yourself a special writing pen, one that grips firmly in your hand, one that pens smoothly. You'll be surprised what a new pen can do for your writing mood.
 
6- Don't allow rejections to stymie your mood. Remember, a rejection means you have subbed and that is more than a wannabe writer can say. Be proud you took the step of submitting a project. Now turn around and sub it somewhere else if you believe this project needs no further work.
 
7- Have someone else critique and edit your project. No matter how good we believe we are, a second pair of eyes will always catch those minute details our own eyes missed.
 
8- Begin branding yourself as a writer. It is never too early to begin announcing to the whole world that "I AM a writer!"
 
9- Network with other writers and join writing groups. Exchange links and help one another.
 
10- Try something out of the box. You might surprise yourself. If you always write mystery, then try your hand at romance. Allow your creativity to expand itself by not forcing it in one closed box. Afterall, you ARE a writer!

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