WRITER'S WORKSHOP
Topics covered will include:
Creating Characters: Who Are These Creatures
Anyway?
There's
more to characters than meets the eye.
Explore the myriad aspects of creating credible,
well-rounded
characters readers will care about.
Fantasy World Building: Not Just a Copy
of Medieval Europe.
Creating
a setting that lives and breaths and is believably
consistant is much more than physical surroundings
and non-tech trappings.
SF World Building: More Than Planet Building.
Earthbound?
Space faring? Aliens? Generation ships?
The variables are endless and then you have to make
it real.
Conflict & Plot -or- How to Torture Your
Characters With Style
No matter
how much you like your characters, you must
make really bad things happen to them, or there is
no story.
Revision: The Necessary Surgery of Prose
Deciding
when to add and when to cut, even when it hurts.
Novels vs. Short Stories: More Than Just
Word Count
Two entirely
different animals. Which should you write?
Basic Mechanics:
What You Don't Know Can Kill Your Story's Chances
Manuscript
format, cover letters, market research,
contracts, rights grabs and all those other pesky
little details you do have to bother with.
The Anything-We-Didn't-Cover Panel
Any questions
you'd like to ask that weren't covered by the
workshop? Now's your chance.
Members
of the convention should sign up for the workshop
at registration when they arrive. There is
no additional charge for
the workshop other than your con membership, but
you must sign-up for the
workshop if you wish to attend it. Space
will be limited.
Participants will receive 2 copies of the Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writer's of
America magazine The Bulletin, as well as an assortment
of other useful goodies still being negotiated.
Professional authors currently slated to teach at
the workshop:
Rob Chilson; Lloyd Kropp; Sandra Morrese
Marella Sands; Stephanie Shaver & Thomas Stratman.
(author list subject to change without notice)
Inquires about the workshop may be sent to: smorrese@intertek.net
or snail mailed to:
Sandra C. Morrese
P.O. Box 555
O'Fallon, IL 62269-0555
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