History's the most compelling story ever, but too much fictitious history can drag a narrative down. Learn how & when to use your created history to help, rather than hurt, your story.
Intended for new writers, this panel teaches you about basic issues & skills pertaining to writing, including plotting, point of view, & character development. Audience questions encouraged!
Intended for new writers, this panel teaches you about basic issues & skills pertaining to writing, including plotting, point of view, & character development. Audience questions encouraged!
Writer's Craft: 25 Steps to Writing Your First Sex Scene
Summary:
Let's talk about sex, baby. In particular, how to write realistic physical encounters for various genres that add to your plot, character development, and tension while titillating the reader.
Description:
Writing your first sex scene can be a lot like losing your virginity: awkward, embarrassing, overdone, undersatisfying, and fairly messy. When I wrote my first one, I was 32 and had to drink half a bottle of wine before I could bring myself to type the word "nipple". This presentation breaks down the down and dirty into 25 humpalicious steps that went viral when premiered on Chuck Wendig's Terrible Minds blog. I'll talk about how to approach the scene, how to make it matter, thing to remember, things to avoid, how and when to edit it, and how to never use the word "moist". Ask me anything in the Q&A, and I'll do my best not to blush while answering.
Action scenes are the best parts of many stories, but among the hardest to write. Learn how to write action scenes that thrill the reader while contributing something to your story beyond thrills.
Award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake takes you deep inside the violence, breaking it down piece by piece, & giving you some tricks you can use to create more realistic & exciting fights.
Authors often want to give a story a particular "feel," such as dread, wonder, romance, or weirdness. Learn how to create atmosphere through word choice, sentence construction, & other techniques.
Join Scott Lynch as he dissects some well-known action and sci-fi movies for the purpose of learning how to use cinematic idiom in written storytelling.
Discover methods for describing the setting & action through the characters' dialogue. Learn to convey plot, emotion, & intent with a few lines of conversation.