Business of Writing: Structuring a Successful Collaborative Project
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Collaboration can be a joy or a nightmare. Fortunately there are some concrete things you can do to make sure your project lands more on the enjoyable side.
No agent? No problem! Learn how to build a successful writing career even if you don't have an agent. Featuring Christopher Morgan, Erin M. Evans, James Minz, Lucy A. Snyder
Business of Writing: The Principles of Good Cover Design
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Learn some principles about what makes a good book cover so that you can design your own or discuss covers intelligently with your publisher.
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Learn some principles about what makes a good book cover so that you can design your own or discuss covers intelligently with your publisher. This class teaches the purpose of a cover, basic principles of design that can help or hurt a cover, and tools you can use to help your cover be what it needs to be. Class will be taught with visual examples so you can see what is being discussed.
Is it true that there is a secret blacklist that writers can end up on if they make a mistake? And how bad do you have to mess up before people start to talk? Featuring James Minz
Discover ways to use social media to advance your writing career while avoiding the pitfalls of the online world. Featuring Cat Rambo, Kameron Hurley, Gail Z. Martin, Eddie Schneider
Business of Writing: Where is the Line Between YA, Middle Grade, and Adult?
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Where do publishers draw the line between YA and middle grade? And at what point does a YA story become a story for adults? Featuring Alaya Dawn Johnson, Geoffrey Girard, Steve Diamond
Technology isn't going anywhere, so why not use it to your advantage? Learn about all the cool sites, programs, & more to make your game mastering life easier.
After 30 years since the first boxed set, the Forgotten Realms continues to grow & change. Join us to discuss another year in the history of the Realms, & what the future might hold.
Come & join us for a lively moderated panel discussion with several well-established game reviewers who still daftly use the written word. Ever wonder what that's *really* like? Now's your chance!
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We'll spend the hour with the help of a guest moderator covering a wide variety of topics unique to the written medium. From its current challenges to inherent advantages, we figured it'd be interesting to hear some insight (or at least witty retorts) from several individuals who have been at it for quite some time, including: Milena Guberinic (Mina's Fresh Cardboard); Ryan LaFlamme (Cardboard Republic); Jonathan Liu (Geekdad); Tony Mastrangeli (BoardGameQuest); and Jonathan Wolf (islaythedragon). Come and join in for some fun Q&A conversation! At the very least, you'll get to find out what they all sound like in person.
Want to learn how to use your RPG experience in your work? We'll make character sheets for your clients & coworkers to help you communicate more effectively & design better software/solutions.
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Imagine that you are a big hulking barbarian and you find and try to use a scroll of Cure Poison to save the king from death. -- Not going to happen. -- You needed a potion or something more aligned to your skills. This is the situation we are presenting to our clients and coworkers when we offer them solutions from our perspective. As gamers, we already know how to approach problems based on class, alignment, or anything else on our character sheets, why not leverage that experience in our jobs. This session will explore the how and why we can use character sheet personas in a meaningful way. We'll center the seminar around a fictitious software project with users as characters in an RPG. We'll have hands-on work and include take-home materials. At then end of the workshop you'll have new tools for how you can relate to clients and coworkers, making you more successful in your work.