RWA 2009 Conference Day 1

The Romance Writers of Australia is holding its 2009 National Conference in Brisbane. We’re not writers, but we’re sticky beaks, so we’re relying on live tweets to keep us up to date on the goings on (no incriminating photos, yet).

If you have a Twitter account, the hashtag is #RWAus09, and you might also want to follow @RWAus.

This is an archive of the Twitter stream for Day 1. You can also view the tweets on ScribbleLive.

Unfortunately, I think there was an issue with the wireless connection at the venue, so the tweets drop off in the afternoon. Also, the Harlequin cocktail party must’ve rocked because no one was tweeting!

• 9:34 PM: BookThingo Tweets from the @RWAus conference in Brisbane via #RWAus09. Cross-posted to bookthingo.com.au
• 9:33 AM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 The room is starting to fill, noise levels are growing, coffee’s flowing. Mary Jo Putney & Anne Gracie on the art of Storytelling.
• 9:33 AM: kikilon Someone at my table has frock karma! #rwaus09
• 9:35 AM: BookThingo Romance conferences today: @IASPR & #romcon at Intern’l Assoc for the Study of Popular Romance; @RWAus & #RWAus09 for writers conference
• 9:45 AM: kikilon #rwaus09 quote: MJP- Motivation is everything. Think about it and everything is possible in a story.
• 10:01 AM: kikilon #rwaus09 What’s your core story, your theme? Redemption, healing, fish out of water…?
• 10:26 AM: AustLiterature Romance conferences today: @IASPR & #romcon for the Study of Popular Romance; @RWAus & #RWAus09 for writers conference (via @BookThingo)
• 11:06 AM: kikilon Have you ever run out of steam by chapter 5? Anne Gracie on conflict right now. #rwaus09
• 11:18 AM: sandiehudson @kikilon oh Anne Gracie is great on conflict #RWAus09
• 11:23 AM: traceyohara @EstefanieL @SueBT Arrived safe and well at Brissie – now locked away doing edits while everyone attends fab workshop #RWAus09
• 11:32 AM: kikilon “we’re all stalkers at heart.” – Anne Gracie #rwaus09 quotes
• 1:06 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 Lunch buffet looks like locusts have been through…
• 1:08 PM: sandiehudson @ReadNikkiLogan you mean you get time to eat @ #RWAus09 ?
• 1:24 PM: kikilon “I could never make an alien baby. And I’m the same with my writing.” Imelda Evans #rwaus09 quotes
• 1:29 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus #Anne Gracie. Conflict is better named ‘source of tension’. If readers aren’t barracking for the h& H then the outcome is a …(cont)
• 1:39 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 #AnneGracie. The hero sets the tone for the book (warrior, bad boy, charmer, whiteknight). The heroine…
• 1:40 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 #AnneGracie. …The heroine is the placeholder in the book (she takes ‘our’ place)….
• 1:53 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 #MJPutney. Irritating alpha tortures the heroine. Poet Alpha tortures himself. Make him vulnerable show his pain make him sacrifice
• 2:19 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 #AnneGracie.”Release your inner mother-in-law…” Is this heroine WORTHY of this gorgeous hero? It’s why a heroine can tank a book.
• 5:08 PM: anniereads #RWAus09 Getting ready for the Harlequin Cocktail Party!
• 6:00 PM: RWAus What’s happening at #RWAus09 right now: It’s cocktail party time!
• 6:57 PM: anniereads #Rwaus09 Off to the cocktail party!
• 7:15 PM: kikilon Lots of super jingly bellydancing belts at the #rwaus09 Arabian Nights cocktail party!
• 9:11 PM: kikilon The #rwaus09 cocktail party was heaps of fun. People were so elaborate with their costumes! Also, there was belly dancing and hula hooping.
• 9:12 PM: chickollage @kikilon was Nat hula hooping? #rwaus09
• 9:13 PM: kikilon @chickollage She’s a hula legend! She was teaching everyone. Got lots of pics to share for the upcoming #rwaus09 Flickr set!
• 9:22 PM: chickollage @kikilon excellent! look forward to seeing the pics #rwaus09
• 9:46 PM: kikilon Apparently, some people had problems with the wifi at #rwaus09. So if you’re expecting more tweets from people, this might be why.
• 10:15 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 #Cocktail party. Back from Arabian Nights, settling in for G&T and Daniel Day Lewis in a loincloth… “I will find you!”
• 10:19 PM: ReadNikkiLogan #RWAus09 #Cocktailparty. Last of the Mohicans, that is. New RWAus post-conference tradition ….
• 10:21 PM: Anita_Joy #RWAus09 Having technical problems at conference, thanks Kiki for sending updates.
• 11:11 PM: BookThingo Soooo…does anyone have any incriminating–I mean, interesting pics from the Harlequin cocktail party at #RWAus09 #romcon?