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Bardi Rosman Koodrin welcomes audience to Literary Arts stage San Mateo County Fair

Look at the many writing contests offered through the Literary Arts Division of the San Mateo County Fair!  Go to https://sanmateocountyfair.com/pdf/2014/literary_arts_14.pdf  and review rules and guidelines carefully.    All entries due April 1, 2014 by 5pm Pacific Standard Time

Entry Fees: $10.00 per entry       NO MAXIMUM ENTRY FEE

Writing Contests through the Literary Arts Division of the San Mateo County Fair include “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” !

For a list of all writing contests, please go to: https://sanmateocountyfair.com/pdf/2014/literary_arts_14.pdf

Mary E. Knippel and I (Teresa LeYung-Ryan) presented a 45-minute session “Be Your Own Editor: Inject Your Manuscript with the 5 Ws and Core Themes” at last weekend’s San Francisco Writers Conference.

The first W (“Who”) – as in “Who is the Protagonist?”  And, “Who or what is the Antagonist?”

Who or What is the Antagonist in Your Story / Novel / Memoir / Book ?

For every Protagonist, there’s an Antagonist!

Antagonist is a character or a set of circumstances that threatens the Protagonist’s well-being OR the well-being of someone the Protagonist cares about.

Other powerful Antagonists are:

• the Protagonist’s reaction to circumstances
• the Protagonist’s own character flaw
• something that threatens the status quo
• illness or grief (including loss of an aspect of One’s self)

This is how screenwriter/screenwriting teacher Terrel Seltzer defines “what” is a great story.  She says:  “Someone we care about … wants something badly…  and is having a terrible time getting it.”

Coach Teresa here . . . “The Antagonist is the one who/which is causing ‘a terrible time’ for the Protagonist.”

Go through your manuscript; are you showing at least one of the antagonists within the first 5 pages?

Happy re-writing!

Teresa LeYung-Ryan   aka  22-Day Coach Teresa helps clients identify their themes and archetypes; she is the author of:

Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby (novel used in college courses)

Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (workbook for all genres),

“Talking to My Dead Mom” monologues

Coach Teresa’s website http://writingcoachTeresa.com

To subscribe to Coach Teresa’s Blog , please click here.

Dear Teresa,

Thank you for your honest and poignant writing. You have a gift of writing from the heart with a sincerity that is far-reaching. Heart-felt, heart-warming and perfect. Just what I needed to hear right now.

Marlene Cullen

Please click here for “Transforming Depression Into My Writer’s Muse” by Teresa LeYung-Ryan (on Marlene Cullen’s blog)

Love Made of Heart (a mother-daughter love story) by Teresa LeYung-Ryan

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Please click  here for Writing Teacher Marlene Cullen’s Book Review of Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s Love Made of Heart

Love Made of Heart by Teresa LeYung Ryan is excellent. I read it in two sittings. Dinner could wait. I had to find out what would happen to Ruby Lin. Teresa uses her novel to advocate compassion for mental illness and to help survivors of family violence find their own voices. Teresa’s writing is evocative and from the heart. . . she reaches deep and succeeds with her genuine and authentic voice. I want to read Love Made of Heart again. Yes, it’s that good.

Teresa LeYung-Ryan is an advocate for mental health.   Advocacy For Mental Health — Resources for Women, Girls, Boys, Teens, Men, Families

Love Made of Heart Gift Shop

Marlene Cullen

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Thank you, Writing Teacher Marlene Cullen, for reviewing my book Love Made of Heart on your blog, facebook, and Goodreads. Being the author of the book gives me strength to encourage other adult children of mentally ill parents to speak openly about the stigmas. Also, thank you again for letting me guest blog to talk about “Transforming Depression Into My Writer’s Muse”  You have my deep gratitude.

Sincerely,

Teresa LeYung-Ryan

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For more information about Marlene Cullen’s blog, writing workshops and Writers’ Forum of Petaluma, please click here.

Teresa LeYung-Ryan

Teresa’s novel Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby is used in college courses and archived at the San Francisco History Center.

As author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, Coach Teresa helps clients identify their themes and archetypes.

http://writingcoachTeresa.com   Subscribe to  “Coach Teresa’s blog”

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Thank you, dear Marlene Cullen, for asking me to be your guest-blogger this week.

Here’s how I had started the post for Marlene’s blog (The Write Spot Blog–Sharing the Light):

What do I have to be depressed about?

I am blessed with friends, writing colleagues, housemates, spouse, family members, coworkers, a half-time day job, health insurance, my intellectual properties . . .  and what friends call a sense of humor.  But I don’t feel like laughing in my condition, maybe later. I may have inherited the depression gene (or genes) from my loving mother.

While I sympathized with my mother’s illness (my novel Love Made of Heart was inspired by her), it would take experiencing the illness myself before I could gain empathy.

To read more . . .  please visit Marlene Cullen’s blog post by clicking on Transforming Depression Into My Writer’s Muse — by Teresa LeYung-Ryan

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For a list of resources, please visit my blog page Helpful Websites & Resources & Guides for Mental Health / Mental Illness / Depression.

Teresa LeYung-Ryan

Teresa’s novel Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby is used in college courses and archived at the San Francisco History Center.

As author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, Coach Teresa helps clients identify their themes and archetypes.

http://writingcoachTeresa.com   Subscribe to  “Coach Teresa’s blog”

Any project or event that Kim McMillon is involved in is empowering!

I cheer for Kim McMillon and Everyone associated with 50 Years on the Black Arts Movement and Its Influences and the University of California, Merced!

Get tickets:  https://intelforms.ucmerced.edu/Form/Black_Arts_Movement

The conference is free for UC Merced students and Merced County youths, and $40 for the general public. To register or for more information about the conference, email Kim McMillon at kmcmillon@ucmerced.edu or go online.

Press inquiries should be directed to Scott Hernandez-Jason, shernandez-jason@ucmerced.edu

https://www.facebook.com/events/206503536195057/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/African-Diaspora-Graduate-Student-Association/260735274051324

Gala Host Belva Davis! at  50 Years on the Black Arts Movement and Its Influences!

Conference to Explore Black Arts Movement, Influences

The International Conference on the Black Arts Movement and Legacies will be held on March 1-2, 2014 at the University of California, Merced.

An international two-day conference on the Black Arts Movement will draw world-renowned scholars, musicians and artists, and offer new scholarship and perspectives on the 1960s and 1970s movement.

The International Conference on the Black Arts Movement and Legacies, on March 1-2, 2014 at the University of California, Merced, will provide an opportunity to hear and appreciate the elders, activists and artists who proclaimed “Black is beautiful” in their art, music, poetry and writings, while also shedding light on recent assessments of the movement.

“UC Merced is excited to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on the Black Arts Movement,” said Professor Susan Amussen, who’s also the director of the Center for the Humanities. “We look forward both to the presence of so many outstanding artists on campus and to the exploration of the impact of this important movement on mainstream American culture.”

Scholarly panels, poetry, art, theatre presentations and workshops on a wide variety of topics from the state of black studies in America to the impact of the Black Arts Movement past and present will be discussed.

“The Black Arts Movement and this UC Merced Conference comprise one whopping piece long missing from the jigsaw puzzle of cultural America,” said Al Young, California’s Poet Laureate Emeritus.

Askia Toure, Ishmael Reed, Marvin X, Eugene Redmond, Umar Bin Hassan, Nathan Hare, Emory Douglas, Judy Juanita, Avotcja and other key writers, musicians and artists from the Black Arts and Black Power movements will discuss their work and perform at the conference.

“No discussion of the Black Arts Movement or the radical left can take place without mentioning the late Amiri Baraka,” said event organizer and UC Merced graduate student Kim McMillon. “His words and art represent the beginnings of the movement, birthing black identity. Black Americans in the 1960s and 1970s created a new vision of blackness, one that celebrated the uniqueness of black culture.”

“The work of the Black Arts movement served as inspiration for many later artists, especially those from marginalized communities, and thus has shaped the flowering of artistic work over the last 40 years,” McMillon said.

The conference is co-sponsored by Associated Students of UC Merced, African Diaspora Student Association, the Center for the Humanities, Merced County Arts Council, Merced County Office of Education, Office of Student Life and The California Endowment.

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Any project or event that Kim McMillon is involved in is empowering!

I cheer for Kim McMillon and Everyone associated with 50 Years on the Black Arts Movement and Its Influences and the University of California, Merced!

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Dear Claudine,

Thank you for telling me about your benefit storytelling event this Saturday.

I’m cheering for you!  Thank you for raising awareness about mental illness in the Asian community.

Sincerely,

Teresa LeYung-Ryan

Thank You for Being Born

 Speaking the Truth About 

Mental Illness in the Asian Community

Claudine Woo

and

Kenny Yun

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Dec. 5, 2013 Director Emmanuel Itier so happy to show off FEMME: Women Healing the World movie poster enlarged by Producer Margie Yee Webb - photo by Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart: a Daughter's Journey to Self-Forgiveness

Below is the announcement from Director Emmanuel Itier

We are proud to announce that FEMME: Women Healing the World (the movie) has been Awarded  #1 most important film of 2013 among Documentaries  that could change The World. Here is a link:

FEMME Women Healing the World movie's Fab Four - Margie Yee Webb, Celeste Yarnall, Nazim Artist, Director Emmanuel Itier - photo by 22-Day Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan

Part 5 – Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s YouTube videos of FEMME: Women Healing the World the movie’s “Fab Four” with their friends/old fans and new fans

Look for links to videos #27 – #33 in this blog post  (The “Fab Four” of the December 5, 2013 movie screening of FEMME: Women Healing the World )  Look for photos at the bottom half of this post too!

FEMME: Women Healing the World - the movie

VIDEO  #27 FEMME: Women Healing the World the movie’s closing messages

VIDEO  #28 FEMME: Women Healing the World the movie’s closing credits part 1

VIDEO  #29 FEMME: Women Healing the World the movie’s closing credits part 2

Producer Margie Yee Webb presented the exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary FEMME: Women Healing the World on Dec. 5, 2013 at the historic Crest Theatre in Sacramento, CA

VIDEO #30 the morning after FEMME movie screening interview with 3 producers extraordinaire

VIDEO #31 the morning after FEMME: Women Healing the World movie-screening with Producers Nazim Artist, Celeste Yarnall, Margie Yee Webb

The morning after the movie screening of FEMME: Women Healing the World . . . While Director Emmanuel Itier was in the air (overjoyed at audience-reaction and on his way to New York) . . . Producers Nazim Artist, Celeste Yarnall and Margie Yee Webb gave Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan their perspectives on the project of love. These 3 producers and director Itier are proof that women and men sharing their hearts - with art, music, words, love, peace - are healing the world.

 VIDEO  #32 FEMMEs Celeste Yarnall & Margie Yee Webb are women healing the world

VIDEO #33 FEMME producer Margie Yee Webb – aka Cat Mulan author – true to herself

FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb celebrates women, men, children, and animals healing the world; she orchestrated the screening of the remarkable movie FEMME at Crest Theatre, Sacramento, CA - photo by her loyal fan 22- Day Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan

FEMME producer Margie Yee Webb sends thank you messages after movie screening -- photo by 22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan Margie Yee Webb is a.k.a. author/photographer of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life, the gift book http://www.catmulan.com

FEMME: Women Healing the World's "Fab Four" (Producers Margie Yee Webb, Celeste Yarnall, Nazim Artist and Director Emmanuel Itier) overjoyed at audience-reaction to the movie and Q&A session - photo by 22-Day Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan

Click here to see official trailer of FEMME: Women Healing the World

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Part 4 – Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s YouTube videos of FEMME: Women Healing the World the movie’s “Fab Four” with their friends/old fans and new fans!

Look for links to videos #17 – #26 in this blog post  (of what happened on Dec. 5, 2013 at the movie-screening of FEMME: Women Healing the World )  Look for photos at the bottom half of this post too!

VIDEO #17 FEMME Director Emmanuel Itier had interviewed FEMME women in 25 countries over 3 years

VIDEO #18 FEMME  Director Itier had 600-700 hours of footage for editors

VIDEO #19 FEMME Celeste Yarnall encourages us to DO something QUICK

VIDEO #20 FEMME Celeste Yarnall invites comments from 3 men in FEMME audience

FEMME Producer Celeste Yarnall encourages us to DO something QUICK - photo by Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart: a Daughter's Journey to Self-Forgiveness

Producer Margie Yee Webb, Director Emmanuel Itier, Producer/Spokeswoman/Actress Celeste Yarnall answer audience's questions at FEMME: Women Healing the World screening - photo by Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days

VIDEO #22 FEMME: Women Healing the World Producers & Director thank EVERYONE and supporters including Teresa, Arlene, Oscar, Eric

VIDEO #23 FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb praises  Stand Up!: 75 Young Activists Who Rock the World (the book)

VIDEO #24 FEMME – “Did Director Itier ask all the women in FEMME the same questions?”

VIDEO #25 FEMME Celeste Yarnall asks movie audience how we make a difference

VIDEO #26 FEMME Margie Yee Webb encourages our supporting local organizations

FEMME: Women Healing the World - the movie

FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb proudly shows off movie poster at Crest Theatre - photo by 22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan

FEMME Director Emmanuel Itier happy to autograph DVDs as Producer Margie Yee Webb looks on

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FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb proudly shows off FEMME movie poster at Crest Theatre - photo by 22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan

Actress Arlene Barshinger (center) holds up Teresa LeYung-Ryan's book and Margie Yee Webb's book - photo by Oscar Benjamin

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FEMME the movie's Fab Four (Producers Margie Yee Webb, Celeste Yarnall, Nazim Artist and Director Emmanuel Itier) with new fans - photo by Oscar Benjamin-Compassionate Wolf Productions

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FEMME Fab Four last to leave magnificent Crest Theatre. One last look at glass doors and ticket booth -- photo by 22-Day Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan

Professor Sheryl Fairchild, Susan Osborn, Ph.D., author/playwright/writing coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan so happy for FEMME's "Fab Four" (FEMME Producers Margie Yee Webb, Celeste Yarnall, Nazim Artist and Director Emmanuel Itier) - photo by Jeff Wilson

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We are all so proud of and thankful for FEMME's "Fab Four" (FEMME Producers Margie Yee Webb, Celeste Yarnall, Nazim Artist and Director Emmanuel Itier) - photo by 22-Day Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan

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Soon . . . Part 5 – Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s YouTube videos of FEMME: Women Healing the World movie’s “Fab Four”

Click here to see official trailer of FEMME: Women Healing the World

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