Pursue your personal publishing happily-ever-after
DARA Welcomes Lara Zielinsky onJanuary 25th
Developing Skills as a Beta Reader as a Way to Better Your Own Writing
All writers want to improve our craft, but formal classes, seminars, and courseware will only get us so far. The biggest strides forward for developing quality writing can be made if you develop skills as an analytical reader. Reading published books is one way, but to really understand how even the smallest tweak can vastly improve how a story engages readers, beta reading is da bomb. In this presentation, long-time author and editor Lara Zielinsky will show you how to Beta read your way to better writing.
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Bio:
Lara Zielinsky has been writing stories for 20+ years. She started in fanfiction and moved to writing original fiction in 2005. All her shorts, novellas, and novels feature leading women who find romance and adventure, (self) acceptance, and loving, supportive partners. She’s written contemporary, historical, adventure, and fantasy LGBTQ stories.
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She lives for word games and gloats just a bit when she finds seven-letter words. Her day just doesn’t start right without her NY Times and morning writing sprints. Her favorite way to close the day is watching Jeopardy! and then enjoying a good book in her home library. In between she can be found writing, editing other people’s books, exercising her dog, bicycling with her spouse, exploring Florida’s beach towns, and sleeping on the beach.
You can find out more about her at https://linktr.ee/aularazielinsky
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At DARA, you will find...
DARA's Purpose & People
We are a non-profit, voluntary association of writers dedicated to raising and maintaining quality in the romance genre and its sub-genres. DARA works to accomplish this through advocating high professional standards and through the dissemination of information on writing and the publishing industry. DARA is chapter 56 of the Romance Writers of America.
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We welcome all writers serious about pursuing a personal publishing happily-ever-after.
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We invite you to come to a meeting or two, get to know us, and find out if you'd like to join our writing family.
DARA is a local chapter of RWA. Click to learn more.
