IWWG - Workshop Directors 2007

ANNE FRAZIER WALRADT is a freelance teacher, writer, and editor. Her articles and essays have appeared in such diverse publications as Maine in Print and Romance Forever. She has taught literature and writing on secondary and college levels, where she enjoyed prodding students into editing their own work toward perfection. She now lures prospective authors into workshops and urges them toward publication. Past president of New Jersey Romance Writers, she leads workshops at writers meetings and conferences. She edited Romance Recipes for the Soul, which includes one of her short stories. When not freelance editing or writing articles, she is at work on a collection of ABombeckian@ essays, a Aused mother@ book, and a beauty and the beast novel.

Upping the Humor Ante: Laughing All the Way to the Bank. Saturday and Sunday: Story and Comic Premise (repeats). Monday: AThe Gap@ (most important idea in Astory,@ not the chain store) and Women in Community. Tuesday: Techniques that Work. Wednesday: Simile and Metaphor. Thursday: Open Readings. Some movie scenes will illustrate our ideas and spark our imaginations. Yes, we=ll do some writing. Plenty of laughter.

NANCY WEBER is one of the nation’s handful of psychic detectives who closes high crime cases with law enforcement agents. Some of these true stories are shown on Court TV’s “Psychic Detectives” shows, A & E, TLC, W Network in Canada, UK, Mexico, and other countries. Nancy is a publisher, writer, psychic, medical intuitive, animal communicator, healer, minister, ex-police officer, President and co-founder of the Holistic Alliance International, a nonprofit educational organization. Nancy is also a published songwriter (with folk-singer Elaine Silver), poet, illustrator and author of Psychic Detective, a nonfiction account of her work with crime and The Gift of Interspecies Communication, True Stories and Exercises For The Soul. One of Nancy’s current projects is performing animal communication workshops as fundraisers for animal shelters. Nancy believes the greatest accomplishment she strives for is friendship with all sentient life. Nancy’s website is www. nancyorlenweber.com.

Heart and Soul: The Wisdom Path. Writing is either words strung together or a magic carpet floating through the air. The visions we create will have a universal tone if we bring them out from the light of our souls. Whether nonfiction or fiction, treatments for film or songs, the feeling we put into our work is what makes it alive.

MINGMEI YIP wrote and illustrated Chinese Children=s Favorite Stories, published by Tuttle, 2004. She began writing and painting during her childhood in Hong Kong. A one‑person exhibition of her paintings of Guanyin, the Chinese Goddess of Compassion, was held in SoHo (New York City) during 2002. Mingmei has been practicing and teaching the ancient Chinese spiritual discipline of Tai Chi for more than a decade and credits it with helping maintain the energy she needs to keep up with her diverse activities.

Tai Chi for Energy and Creativity. Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese spiritual practice which stimulates the flow of qi (subtle energy) within the body. Chinese believe that art is energized by the dynamic presence of qi. Westerners can facilitate their creativity by experiencing their own qi. We=ll begin with simple but powerful exercises which enhance energy while inducing a pleasant state of relaxation. After participating in this workshop, you will have acquired a lifelong resource for enhanced well‑being.