Fictional worlds often include languages to make their setting more believable. This seminar from Daniel Myers will help you create your own language, suitable for adding color to a game or novel.
By the Numbers - Breaking Down the Financials of a Writing Career
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Successful authors are also small business owners. In this class from Maxwell Drake you will learn how to best navigate the world of writing as a business in order to make the most of your money.
Character Creation – Who is that masked man anyway?
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Great stories need great characters. But how do you go about creating the backstory that will capture the reader's hearts and have them hoping that the characters succeed? Maxwell Drake helps!
How will people in the future address climate issues? What comes after global warming? Is climate a tool that can be controlled through science/magic? Scott Rice-Snow, Steven S. Long, Steven Diamond
Your brain is full of everything you've learned over the last four days. Now it's time for a little fun! Join us as we wrap up another successful year.
How can two (or more!) authors work together to create a cohesive work? Listen to James SA Corey (Daniel Abraham/Ty Franck) & Mercedes Lackey/Larry Dixon discuss the art and science of collaboration.
How can authors write relatable aliens? Eugene Fischer, Jody Lynn Nye, Richard Lee Byers, and Keith Baker discuss possibilities of alien life, culture, form, motivations, and more!
Great villains make heroes shine even more. Carl Engle-Laird
Chris Jackson, Richard Kadrey, Robyn Bennis, Scott Lynch discuss.
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Great villains make heroes shine even more. Carl Engle-Laird
Chris Jackson, Richard Kadrey, Robyn Bennis, Scott Lynch discuss how to write chilling and even sympathetic villains rather than moustache-twirling, one-dimensional puppets.
Sandra Tayler teaches some basic principles to help when designing your own covers, hiring someone to do covers, or consulting with the designer your publisher hired.
"The rule of three won’t save low-hanging fruit, but moving the payload will yield a solid comic drop.” Howard Tayler shows how to use this not-funny line to make other sentences VERY funny!