From the President,
I suddenly got inspired at RWA’s 2011 Leadership Retreat. I sat at a table with the presidents of chapters in Texas, Florida, and Ohio. With memberships in the dozens or even hundreds, their chapters are much larger than STAR–and that’s when it hit me.
Our relatively small size allows us to provide more services to all our members. We can take the time at every meeting to hear what each STAR writer is working on, whether it’s a first draft of a first novel, or the latest revisions for a multi-published author. With that level of personal involvement, STAR can do more to help its members accomplish their dreams as writers.
And as writers, we all dream. Even the most successful authors think, “It would be nice to…,” only to lose themselves in the resulting reverie.
So dream your biggest dreams. Tell us what we can do to help them come true. That’s the true value of RWA, and it’s the silver lining to having a small chapter. We may be few in number, but we all pull together to bring each others’ goals into reach.
Magdalen Braden
President, STAR