Instructor: Beth Daniels. Been staring at the blank page a lot lately, be it paper or computer screen? Stalled out on your current project or longing for the next brilliant idea to strike, yet feeling that the lightning is passing you by?

Minds are like computers…or is that computers are like minds? Whichever, both need to be rebooted at times. Whether you are picturing that as meaning a steel-toed size 13 being aimed at…well, the thing you sit upon – and we’re not talking about the sofa or desk chair – or that bolt of lightning striking the old cerebellum, there is something less drastic you can do to entice ideas from the nooks in which they hide. 

You can join the five day workshop, REBOOT YOUR IMAGINATION.

What we’ll be doing is forcing you to write something unlike anything you’d write otherwise. We’re going to go with what I call the BLIND LIBRARIAN ploy, picking elements at random from other works and melding them into a short piece that will hopefully get your mind back on whatever track you want it on…but hopefully not that siding where it’s been parked.

This isn’t something that should be done alone though, so everyone involved will be expected (coerced) into making suggestions…and the wilder the better. 

We’re trying to break out of a mold here! Or brushing the mold that’s been growing over our old ideas away by infusing them with…well, something else!

Frequent SavvyAuthors’ workshop presenter and multi-published author Beth Daniels is constantly needing to reboot her imagination because she writes in more than a single genre…and the SavvyAuthors folks keep asking for new workshop ideas!...so she’s been where you are and has jolted out of the anesthetic of writing the same thing over and over more than once. 

Please join her for five days of writing weirdness.

Beth Daniels currently writes as Beth Henderson and J.B. Dane, though she answered to Lisa Dane and Beth Cruise in the past as well. She has worked with editors at Berkley, Zebra, Leisure, Harlequin/Silhouette, and Simon and Schuster's Aladdin Paperbacks, done e-books for a now defunct company (not her fault, she says), and began her writing life with hardcover books slated for library use with a publisher that got out of the romance business (again, not her fault). More recently she’s had a number of articles about writing picked up by e-zines, saw a short story published in a mystery and suspense magazine that turned up its toes the next year (really, really not her fault), and has a story in the MOTHER GOOSE IS DEAD anthology from Dragon Moon Press.

For over a dozen years Beth taught college level composition, both in the classroom and online, and a credit course on Novel Writing. Five of her former Novel class students are now published.

Twenty-six of Beth’s manuscripts have appeared in print or e-book format. These have been historical romantic adventures (6), romantic comedies (10), romantic-suspense (3), and young adult romantic comedy (7). Her titles have appeared in 12 different languages in over 20 countries. At the moment she is working on various manuscripts and collaborated with another RWA member on a contemporary/fantasy/romantic adventure. She also ventured into self-publishing to keep her out-of-print backlist in print.