3D STORYTELLING: Drama, Dialogue and Direction Whether you’re writing a memoir or a novel, your story will be have more color with Drama, Dialogue and Direction. Find out details about Jo’s latest writing workshop here.
Author Archives: Jo Kadlecek
Jo’s Memoir “Woman Overboard” Now Available on AudioBook!
Looking for a book to listen to on that long road trip? Or just while you’re cooking dinner? Check out Jo’s memoir, “Woman Overboard: How Passion Saved My Life” now available on audio book to down load! Read by the author!
Click here and start listening!
NEW: Memoir & Fiction Writing Workshops
It’s always a good time to invest in your writing. Sign up now for one of two new writing workshops: “Writing A Memoir that Moves, Sings & Inspires” (in July) or “Fiction Writing: Heroes, Wars & Sunsets” (in September).
Click here to register today!
New! Sunshine Coast Writers’ Cafe
From Memoir and Fiction Writing to Masterclasses and Screenwriting, several new writing workshops are available now for storytellers and wordsmiths at all levels. What a great way to celebrate—and build—our writing community on the Sunshine Coast! Registration is now open for January 2017 FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP, held in Noosaville. More to come!
July Writing Workshop
Writers need writerly friends and mentors to grow their work. With the May workshop successfully launched, Jo will teach the next memoir writing workshop in July, again in partnership with local Hearts and Minds Art Gallery in Noosa and Tewantin at the Marina. The second of our “Hearts & Minds Writing Workshops” will be “Writing Your Memoir – 1” in JULY. Space is limited to 10. For more information on the workshop and our July class, click here! Write on!
New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
Make 2016 the year you finally:
- start writing that memoir;
- finish that novel;
- revisit that screenplay!
Jo is now offering:
Individual or group writing instruction, editorial coaching, and story consultation for writers at all stages. Online or locally (as in Noosa, Australia). Find out more about her reasonable rates and professional support. Make it a creative resolution to keep!
Just Released: WHEN GIRLS BECAME LIONS, A NOVEL
The incredible championship of the U.S.A. Women’s Soccer Team at the June 2015 FIFA World Cup confirmed the sport’s popularity and the growing impact of women athletes as role models. Now comes a novel that continues the celebration of both: WHEN GIRLS BECAME LIONS.
Co-authored by Valerie J. Gin and Jo Kadlecek, both former college athletes and coaches, WHEN GIRLS BECAME LIONS is a tale of two teams, Title IX and the women who became champions—and friends—in the process. It is a unique literary contribution to both women’s fiction and the ordinarily male-dominated sports genre as it celebrates women’s friendships against the backdrop of sport history. Now available in print and e-book through any independent, chain or online book seller.
Watch the book trailer!
Copy That: 4 Writing Clues for Catching (and Keeping) Readers
Whether it’s a novel or a tweet, a script or an op ed, all writing deserves our best thinking and words. All the time. Sure, it’s hard work. But the pay off of catching—and keeping— readers is worth it. Here are 4 writing clues to make your writing as compelling as it can be: Continue reading
Great Writing Advice from Great Writers
Straight from Jo’s bookshelf, here are some time-tested pieces of advice (in no particular order) from great writers on the writing process, and why we should approach it with care:
•”If you don’t think cheaply, then there at least won’t be the quality of cheapness in your writing . . . Any discipline can help your writing: logic, mathematics, theology and of course and particularly drawing. Anything that helps you to see, anything that makes you look. The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that doesn’t require his attention.”—Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” in Mystery and Manners Continue reading
Five Tips for Truly Terrible Story Telling
With so many helpful lists out there, LampPost Media wanted to contribute one of its own for anyone interested in telling spectacularly bad stories:
1. KEEP IT RANDOM: Create a super complicated plot with lots of characters and conflicts, settings and dialogues so no one knows what’s going on. Or better yet, have no plot at all. If you can’t answer the question, “What’s your story?” in one simple sentence, you’re on your way to a truly terrible one. Congratulations.
2. LET IT GO: Forget about a plan or a structure or an outline of any sort. Telling a story is so easy, whether in print or on camera, it just happens organically anyway. No need to think it through. Continue reading