New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole unravels the mysteries of creating compelling plots. This seminar gives you the insider knowledge that will separate you from all of your peers.
Each attendee reads something they've written, & our panel of experienced authors provide on-the-spot feedback. It’s a fantastic opportunity to get personal feedback on your work!
Each attendee reads something they've written, & our panel of experienced authors provide on-the-spot feedback. It’s a fantastic opportunity to get personal feedback on your work!
Each attendee reads something they've written, & our panel of experienced authors provide on-the-spot feedback. It’s a fantastic opportunity to get personal feedback on your work!
New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole teaches you tips and tricks that you'd pick up in the first five years of your writing career, all presented here in an hour.
Finding Work for Your Inner Critic: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
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Join Forgotten Realms author & editor Erin M. Evans, and discover how to spot your story’s weaknesses and whip your prose into shape.
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Before your story goes out into the world, make it the best it can be! We’ll discuss story structure and how to use it to find weak points, what the rules are and how to know when to ignore them, and the best ways to get your words into fighting shape. There will be an extended question and answer section for specifics, and if time permits, a chance to do guided line-editing on your own work.
Mastering Fiction: Brainstorming Your Way to a Breakout Novel
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In this seminar, learn techniques that can help you generate your Big Idea from the start, which will help to guide you to writing a novel that will stand out from the crowd.
Description:
Novels begin with an idea, and the bigger the idea, the more likely you are to attract the notice of agents, editors, and readers. In this seminar, learn techniques that can help you generate your Big Idea from the start, which will help to guide you to writing a novel that will stand out from the crowd.
Mastering Fiction: Connective Tissue—Advanced Techniques to Create Stories that Resonate
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Learn how to use viewpoint to strengthen the story as a whole, taking a story that feels loose and directionless and working with the material that’s already there to make it strong and vibrant.
Description:
In writing, there are many different techniques that are rarely discussed together. Foreshadowing, parallel threads, theme, tone, character building, and more. In this seminar, these topics are discussed from the viewpoint of strengthening the story as a whole, taking a story that feels loose and directionless and working with the material that's already there to make it strong and vibrant.
Mastering Fiction: It's All Entertainment—Crafting Stories that are a Blast to Read
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In this seminar, learn about the entertainment value of writing, and the techniques you can use to maximize each page for a more engrossing, emotional, page-turning read.
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It's easy while writing to focus on the mechanics of writing and forget that fiction is a form of entertainment. Writers can become lost in topics of theme, characterization, plotting, or even the line-by-line writing, while forgetting to accentuate the things that make people want to read books in the first place. This seminar discusses the entertainment value of writing, and the techniques you can use to maximize each page for a more engrossing, emotional, page-turning read.
Mastering Fiction: Pattern Recognition—Challenging Your Readers to Create Stories that Compel
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In this seminar, learn how to draw your reader in by challenging their expectations, and take character building, plot progression, plot twists and setbacks, and world building to the next level.
Description:
The ability to recognize patterns is a basic human trait. We use it over and over again in our fiction. This seminar discusses how to use patterns to your benefit by both setting and breaking expectations. Learn how to draw your reader in by challenging their expectations, and take character building, plot progression, plot twists and setbacks, and world building to the next level.