LA15 (Irvine) Schedule

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Visit Weekend-At-A-Glance for a static view of the working schedule (as 8/12/17). A summary of all sessions can be found on the Workshops and Events page.

Click on any individual workshop title to view its summary. For specific instructions on how to navigate the interactive online schedule, or customize and print your own weekend itinerary, please go to the “Tips” tab above, where we also have a video tutorial. All workshops and events will take place at the conference hotel, the Wyndham Irvine, located at 17941 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, CA 92614.
- Friday, September 22th, 2017
- Saturday, September 23th, 2017
- Sunday, September 24th, 2017
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Friday, September 22nd, 2017

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REGISTRATION DESK

Walk-in Registration

September 22nd 12:00pm - 8:00pm

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WORKSHOP

Read & Critique

Read, Critique & Live to Write Another Day

Melanie Hooks & Laura Perkins

Rogue Read & Critique(s)

Various

Read, Critique & Live to Write Another Day

September 22nd 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Melanie Hooks & Laura Perkins

Staff members and R&C vets Laura Perkins and Melanie Hooks walk you through critique-giving etiquette and their most helpful methods of interpreting ‘craft vs opinion’ notes, all while keeping your ego – and passion for your work – alive and well.

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All-Genre

September 22nd 3:40pm - 5:10pm

Laura Taylor

Troubleshoot potentially problematic aspects of works-in-progress.

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Rogue Read & Critique(s)

Sep 22nd 9:00pm - Sep 23rd 12:00am

Various

All-Genre: Laura Taylor

Pitch Witches: What’s Your Book About?

Sci-Fi and Fantasy: Melanie Hooks & Laura Perkins

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WORKSHOP

Craft & Execution

Applying Tension and Voice to First Pages

Claudia Whitsitt

Storytelling is Murder

Gayle Carline

Applying Tension and Voice to First Pages

September 22nd 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Claudia Whitsitt

Combine what you’ve learned about tension to this workshop on adding that elusive voice to your first pages, so that your readers are gripped to your story from the very start. Please bring your first pages so you can apply the lesson to your manuscript.

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Storytelling is Murder

September 22nd 3:40pm - 5:10pm

Gayle Carline

Like any genre, mysteries need great characters, but they also need a puzzle to be solved within the pages. The same techniques used by screenwriters to create an interesting crime solved by fascinating characters can be used by novelists to write a compelling story. This workshop will take a look at an episode from a popular TV mystery series and what makes it work. Be prepared to dissect, dismember, and disembowel a 50-minute TV show, then be amazed at how much you’ve learned.

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Craft & Execution

Turning Your Real-life Experiences into a Book

Maralys Wills

Nonfiction for Newbies: Is it a Book, Blog, Feature or What?

Marla Miller

Turning Your Real-life Experiences into a Book

September 22nd 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Maralys Wills

Memoir and personal-experience stories continue to do well today. However, three crucial factors are necessary to succeed: a unique and interesting story; superb writing; near-obsessive determination. Where editors were once prejudiced against the first-person viewpoint readers always responded favorably, resulting in a need to meet unusually high standards for the genre. In this workshop, learn what essential decisions must be made before tackling this type of book.

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Nonfiction for Newbies: Is it a Book, Blog, Feature or What?

September 22nd 3:40pm - 5:10pm

Marla Miller

Not every good idea, nor fascinating subject, warrants a book-length effort. In this workshop we’ll take steps to determine whether your subject matter might be better explored as a blog, feature-length article for magazines, newspaper or other periodicals publication.

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Business & Alternative

The Long and Short of Storytelling

Jeffrey J. Michaels

To Be Announced

TBA

How to Make the Most of the Conference

Wes Albers

The Long and Short of Storytelling

September 22nd 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Jeffrey J. Michaels

In this workshop author and editor Jeffrey J. Michaels will share insights and engage in lively discussion on the necessary elements of telling a worthy tale: long or short, fiction or nonfiction and their similarities and differences. Explore ways of connecting to your audience and creating the impact you envision from your story.

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September 22nd 3:40pm - 5:10pm

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How to Make the Most of the Conference

September 22nd 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Wes Albers

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Business & Alternative

To Be Announced

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Rhythm, Pace, and Amusement

Gayle Carline

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September 22nd 3:40pm - 5:10pm

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Rhythm, Pace, and Amusement

September 22nd 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Gayle Carline

Along with a good plot and characters who feel real, a story has to pull the reader from the first page to the last. This requires writing that keeps the reader engaged and wanting more. We’ll discuss how to plump up flat sentences, and how to make sure each scene keeps the reader on the edge of their seat.

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PANELS & SPECIAL EVENTS

No-host Mixer & Booksigning

Welcome & Intros

Michael Steven Gregory

No-host Mixer & Booksigning

September 22nd 5:15pm - 7:15pm

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Welcome & Intros

September 22nd 7:15pm - 8:00pm

Michael Steven Gregory

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SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Saturday, September 23rd, 2017

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REGISTRATION DESK

Walk-in Registration

September 23rd 7:00am - 6:00pm

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Read & Critique

Pitch Witches: Query Letter Critique

Marla Miller & Jennifer Silva Redmond

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TBA

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Darlene Quinn

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Darlene Quinn

Rogue Read & Critique(s)

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Pitch Witches: Query Letter Critique

September 23rd 9:00am - 10:30am

Marla Miller & Jennifer Silva Redmond

An exceptional query letter is what lands a manuscript request from an agent or acquisitions editor. But is the book you’re pitching in it an accurate description of the book you’ve written? Is it too long or filled with superfluous information that actually undermines a reader’s confidence in your potential? Bring in your no-more-than-1-page query letter and let the “Pitch Witches” work their “magic” to make it the best it can be.

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All-Genre

September 23rd 10:40am - 12:10pm

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Troubleshoot potentially problematic aspects of works-in-progress

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All-Genre

September 23rd 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Darlene Quinn

Troubleshoot potentially problematic aspects of works-in-progress.

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All-Genre

September 23rd 2:40pm - 4:10pm

Darlene Quinn

Troubleshoot potentially problematic aspects of works-in-progress.

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Rogue Read & Critique(s)

Sep 23rd 9:00pm - Sep 24th 12:00am

Various

All-Genre: Laura Taylor

Cold Openings: Your First Five Pages: Marla Miller

Sci-Fi and Fantasy: Melanie Hooks & Laura Perkins

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WORKSHOP

Craft & Execution

The Storyteller’s Toolbox

Janis Thomas

Every Story is a Love Story

Ara Grigorian

The Doctor is IN: Using Psychology to Master Character Development

Seth Wagerman

Getting to the Heart of Women’s Fiction

Janis Thomas

The Storyteller’s Toolbox

September 23rd 9:00am - 10:30am

Janis Thomas

Whether you’re writing sci fi, paranormal, coming of age, romance, or memoir, all stories have key elements that make them engaging reads. In this workshop, we will cover structure, character arc, beats, and other tools that will raise your story to the next level.

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Every Story is a Love Story

September 23rd 10:40am - 12:10pm

Ara Grigorian

Every story has an element of love, whether it’s a Romance (Outlander, Notting Hill), a story with a love interest sub-plot (Hunger Games), a buddy love (Jaws, Die Hard), or team love (Harry Potter, Avengers). In this session we’ll cover the various ways love is incorporated into all story types; how the theme of your story drives its heart and is tightly coupled with the lesson your main character(s) will learn during the journey; and explore how both structure and the associated story beats drive the love story.

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The Doctor is IN: Using Psychology to Master Character Development

September 23rd 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Seth Wagerman

Want characters so deep and genuine that your readers will feel as though they’ve known them for years? Develop their quirks, traits, and deeply-buried scars using the Science of Personality Psychology. In this active workshop, participants will come to understand their creations as complex beings, using everything from classic psychoanalysis to modern-day research on the way personality manifests in the way we walk, talk, and even decorate our bedrooms! Learn something new about your characters–and maybe even yourself–and leave with more than one “take-home” method for showing, not telling, what drives them.

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Getting to the Heart of Women’s Fiction

September 23rd 2:40pm - 4:10pm

Janis Thomas

Women’s Lit is a broad genre, but one of the most popular and best-selling forms of fiction today. In this workshop, we’ll explore the overall genre, its sub-genres and the commonalities they share; what makes women’s fiction work; interweaving plot and character to create a compelling story, and more.

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Craft & Execution

Crafting a Compelling Memoir Proposal

Michelle Stevens, PhD

Structure in Memoir: How to Reveal the Universal Story Inside the Personal Narrative

Judy Reeves

Time in Memoir—A Chronology of Its Own

Judy Reeves

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Crafting a Compelling Memoir Proposal

September 23rd 9:00am - 10:30am

Michelle Stevens, PhD

An inordinate number of memoirs today are sold to publishers not upon completion of the manuscript, but prior to its having been written. A painstakingly crafted proposal package is the key to doing so. In this workshop we’ll dissect the requirements and approach to creating a proposal that “tells and sells” to both agents and acquisition editors, with plenty of good examples of those that did just that–many by first-time authors.

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Structure in Memoir: How to Reveal the Universal Story Inside the Personal Narrative

September 23rd 10:40am - 12:10pm

Judy Reeves

Memoir, like any story, needs a structure upon which to build and from which to expand. It needs a construction with its own logic that holds the story together. Memoir isn’t autobiography. Memoir is a “slice of life” that has a beginning, middle and ending, but these aren’t birth and death and everything that happened in-between. In this workshop, we’ll look at some of the many ways a writer can structure her memoir—linear, framed, single-focus issue, collage, braided, circular, plus a few other surprising scaffolds. We’ll explore examples of the various structures and discuss why they work and how a writer can determine the most effective structure for the story that wants to be told.

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Time in Memoir—A Chronology of Its Own

September 23rd 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Judy Reeves

Not every memoir is told in chronological order. In fact, most memoirs move both forward and backward in time, slip-sliding from past to present and back again. The most successful memoirs aren’t simply a recounting of events, but the memoirist’s discovery of the connections among events that were not necessarily sequential and weaving those events into a narrative that reveals a meaning deeper than a mere telling of this happened and then that. Flash back; flash forward; time leaps; “I, then and I, now;” child voice/adult voice; past tense/present tense; reflection/projection; time is fluid in the memoir. In this workshop, we’ll look at the ways a writer controls time to reveal patterns and meaning in telling their story.

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To Be Announced

September 23rd 2:40pm - 4:10pm

TBA

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Path to Publication

Choose Your Adventure: A Publishing Guide for Aspiring Authors

Greta Boris & Megan Haskell

Acorn Publishing: Exploring the Benefits of Hybrid Publishing

Holly Kammier & Jessica Therrien

Building the Better Book Trailer

Michael Steven Gregory

Indie Excellence: Glocalization and the Key to Survival

Laura Taylor

Choose Your Adventure: A Publishing Guide for Aspiring Authors

September 23rd 9:00am - 10:30am

Greta Boris & Megan Haskell

Imagine yourself, author, as the protagonist in a story full of challenges, twists, and turns. Whether a pantser or a plotter, you have to prepare for the call to adventure. Too many new writers, and sometimes even experienced ones, drown in the swampy middle, give up in the dark night of the soul, and are defeated by their villain. In this course, we will help aspiring novelists plot their own journey by providing a self-outline method to determine which model–Traditional or Self-Publishing, Big 5 Publisher or smaller Indie Press–is best for them and map out the pros, cons, and processes for each.

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Acorn Publishing: Exploring the Benefits of Hybrid Publishing

September 23rd 10:40am - 12:10pm

Holly Kammier & Jessica Therrien

In an ever-changing industry, hybrid publishing is a new concept. Combining traditional publication expertise and cover appeal with the benefits that come with publishing independently, in this workshop the owners of Acorn Publishing will lead authors through the process, from submission to published novel, of cost-effectively self-publishing vetted, quality books under an established collective imprint–Acorn–while enabling them to retain all rights to their work and collect 100% of their profit.

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Building the Better Book Trailer

September 23rd 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Michael Steven Gregory

Whether paying a service or electing to do it yourself, a well-produced book trailer or author video raises awareness and helps sell your title long after publication. Unfortunately, most fail to convert viewers into actual book buyers. In fact, the majority are pretty bad. And bad trailers undermine the confidence of prospective readers, forcing them to question whether the book is any better. From concept through completion, this workshop addresses the key components necessary to creating effective trailers that grab viewers’ attention, sustains it, and drives traffic to your website; a how-to complete with freely available resources for you to craft your own quality author video.

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Indie Excellence: Glocalization and the Key to Survival

September 23rd 2:40pm - 4:10pm

Laura Taylor

Two issues loom large on the Independent Author-Publisher horizon once a writer produces a beautifully written, skillfully edited book and makes it available for purchase: diversification and discoverability. This workshop is geared for writers who wish to globally expand their readership beyond Amazon and gain royalty income from a wide range of sources. >>Details

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Business & Alternative

Writing for Your Reader

Jean Jenkins

Something to Talk About: Speaking Publicly About Your Book

Gayle Carline

The Science of Storytelling: How Neuroscience Can Help Us Tell Better Stories

Oz Monroe

Scrivener 101: Maximize the Value, Minimize the Stress

Ara Grigorian

Writing for Your Reader

September 23rd 9:00am - 10:30am

Jean Jenkins

Interactive writing is the easy secret but hard to do. How much does the reader need to know? When does your story start (or need to) and why? How to use descriptives to the story’s advantage and to involve the reader. The goal is for the reader to identify with your character or the situation or the predicament from page one, line one. We’ll talk about universals (things every reader can identify with) as well as situations unique to your character, why stories lose focus and what to do about it, and how to entice readers so they don’t put the book down early.

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Something to Talk About: Speaking Publicly About Your Book

September 23rd 10:40am - 12:10pm

Gayle Carline

Social media is good, but sooner or later, an author must add public speaking to their toolkit, in order to increase their visibility. This workshop will offer ideas for organizing material and overcoming fear when making presentations to an audience, as well as a chance to practice in a supportive environment. Events from launch parties to sharing a spot on a panel, to being a guest speaker will be covered.

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The Science of Storytelling: How Neuroscience Can Help Us Tell Better Stories

September 23rd 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Oz Monroe

Why pick one word over another? Why write a sentence in this order instead of that? What exactly makes a story engaging? Research into Cognitive Linguistics may have the answer. In this workshop we will learn how to choose words to trigger specific regions of the brain, how to structure sentences based on the brain’s image building capabilities, and how to utilize typical reading speeds and retention to control the pace of the narrative.

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Scrivener 101: Maximize the Value, Minimize the Stress

September 23rd 2:40pm - 4:10pm

Ara Grigorian

Arguably one of the most powerful tools available to writers today is Scrivener, a content-generation software for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, the sheer breadth of its capabilities can be overwhelming. This workshop cuts straight to the chase to get you up to speed with only what you need to know to get to writing fast. >>Details

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PANELS & SPECIAL EVENTS

Lunch

On Your Own

Agents Panel: State of Publishing

Various

SCWC Banquet

Best Foot Forward: Polishing to Impress 1

Jean Jenkins

Lunch

September 23rd 12:10pm - 1:00pm

On Your Own

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Agents Panel: State of Publishing

September 23rd 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Various

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SCWC Banquet

September 23rd 6:30pm - 8:00pm

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Best Foot Forward: Polishing to Impress 1

September 23rd 10:40am - 12:10pm

Jean Jenkins

Limited to 12 participants, in this two-part workshop freelance editor Jean Jenkins analyzes your story idea, writing style, character motivation, sense of setting, character commitment, and all the other little things that agents and editors look for when reviewing pages. Submission of material prior to conference required. >>Details

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SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

To Be Announced

TBA

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September 23rd 8:00am - 8:45am

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September 23rd 8:00pm - 8:45pm

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ONE-ON-ONE CONSULTATIONS

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September 23rd 9:00am - 10:30am

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Sunday, September 24th, 2017

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REGISTRATION DESK

Walk-in Registration

September 24th 8:30am - 12:00pm

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WORKSHOP

Read & Critique

All-Genre

Jennifer Silva Redmond

All-Genre

Claudia Whitsitt

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Teresa Burrell

All-Genre

September 24th 7:00am - 8:45am

Jennifer Silva Redmond

Early morning opportunity to troubleshoot potentially problematic aspects of works-in-progress.

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All-Genre

September 24th 9:00am - 10:30am

Claudia Whitsitt

Troubleshoot potentially problematic aspects of works-in-progress.

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All-Genre

September 24th 10:40am - 12:10pm

Teresa Burrell

Troubleshoot potentially problematic aspects of works-in-progress.

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WORKSHOP

Craft & Execution

Backstory: Employing Expository Like a Screenwriter

Jennifer Silva Redmond

Creating Tension on Every Page

Claudia Whitsitt

Backstory: Employing Expository Like a Screenwriter

September 24th 9:00am - 10:30am

Jennifer Silva Redmond

Learning how and when to give readers information about what came before page one. Clunky, obvious, “on the nose” expository is the bane of agents and editors—not to mention readers—and one of the chief reasons that manuscripts and books get put down, never to be picked up again. Readers want (and need) to learn about characters and situations as they go along, much as we learn about people and situations in real life. In this workshop you’ll learn how to integrate the backstory into your story by employing “character reveals,” “visual expository,” and some other screenwriting tricks. Bring the first two pages of your manuscript, short story, essay, or article—you may be called upon to share.

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Creating Tension on Every Page

September 24th 10:40am - 12:10pm

Claudia Whitsitt

Placement of tension turns a ho-hum story into a page-turner. In this intensive workshop, participants will learn the value of tension, how to arc their pages to infuse tension throughout and spend time workshopping their first pages for maximum effect. Please bring the first pages of your story with you to this hands-on session.

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Craft & Execution

Tell Me a Story: Using the Techniques of Fiction to Craft a Compelling Memoir

Judy Reeves

An Editorial Perspective of Memoirs and Personal Narrative

Laura Taylor

Tell Me a Story: Using the Techniques of Fiction to Craft a Compelling Memoir

September 24th 9:00am - 10:30am

Judy Reeves

When we say, “tell me a story,” what we really mean is transport me to another place and time where something interesting—maybe even captivating—is happening. We want something exciting or moving to occur, and we want to experience it right along with the characters. We want to get to know the characters, see what they look like and hear their voices. We want to learn about them through their actions and behavior. We want to be grounded in a place, at a particular time. It isn’t just in novels and short stories, we want all this—readers these days expect these story-telling qualities in our memoirs as well. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the various techniques good fiction writers use to shape their story and reveal their characters and learn how to apply them in our memoirs.

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An Editorial Perspective of Memoirs and Personal Narrative

September 24th 10:40am - 12:10pm

Laura Taylor

A very wise memoir writer once observed: "Writing memoirs is about harnessing what you see so that you can reveal what you know." An equally wise personal narrative writer made a very similar observation. A unique story, brilliant writing that breathes life into a "real" event/series of events, and the emotional and intellectual engagement of readers--in a nutshell, this is what publishers seek from memoir and personal narrative writers. This workshop will examine the structural components and responsibilities inherent to these two forms of writing from an editorial perspective. All writing levels are welcome.

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WORKSHOP

Business & Alternative

NaNoWriMo Preparation for Maximum Proficiency

Rick Ochocki

Write from the Heart

Jeffrey J. Michaels

NaNoWriMo Preparation for Maximum Proficiency

September 24th 9:00am - 10:30am

Rick Ochocki

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) kicks off November 1st. With over 250 NaNoWriMo titles having been traditionally published as a result of this annual event, including Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus and Hugh Howey’s Wool, could yours be next? In this workshop, NaNoWriMo veteran Rick Ochocki will walk you through the steps, best practices and strategies for drilling down and producing a 50,000-word manuscript in 30 days.

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Write from the Heart

September 24th 10:40am - 12:10pm

Jeffrey J. Michaels

Successful creative writers rely on the ability to consistently access clear inspiration in their works. The word “inspiration” shares its origins with the words “breath” and “spirit.” The development of this creative spirit must become as natural as breathing in your evolving skills as a writer. This workshop will assist in integrating the diverse elements and experiences of the weekend, and encourage you to re-ignite your creative spirit by Writing from the Heart.

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Path to Publication

$0 to Six-figures in 7 'Not-So-Easy' Steps

Teresa Burrell

An Agent, an Editor, and a Publishing Consultant Walk into a Bar…

Claire Gerus, Helga Schier & Pam Sheppard

$0 to Six-figures in 7 'Not-So-Easy' Steps

September 24th 9:00am - 10:30am

Teresa Burrell

Writing as a business or a hobby? Learn how to make writing your day job. This workshop is for writers who want to make money. If you have multiple books or are just starting your first one, you need to know the “business” of being an author, and the sooner you start the better. Writing is fun, but making a living at it is totally awesome!

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An Agent, an Editor, and a Publishing Consultant Walk into a Bar…

September 24th 10:40am - 12:10pm

Claire Gerus, Helga Schier & Pam Sheppard

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September 24th 12:30pm - 1:15pm

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Awards & Farewell

September 24th 1:15pm - 1:45pm

Wes Albers & Michael Steven Gregory