Create a book that looks like ancient leather with a gilded title and embellishment. The inside is hollow—perfect to store playing cards, notes and more!
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Create a book that looks like ancient leather with a gilded title and embellishment. The inside is hollow—perfect to store playing cards, notes and more! Joe Rotella’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Scrap & Stamp Arts, Just Steampunk and Somerset Studios Gallery Summer 2012 and on the PBS shows Crafting At The Spotted Canary and Scrapbook Soup TV.
You can make great costume armor without metalworking or toxic chemicals! We'll cover alternative armoring for historical and fantasy costumes. You'll also make a piece to wear out.
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Did you know it's possible to make great costume armor without investing in metalworking or risking toxic chemicals? We'll cover alternative armoring for historical and fantasy costumes, using a variety of inexpensive, readily-available materials. You'll also make a piece to take home yourself.
Fiction Fundamentals Part 1: Plotting and Planning
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In-depth workshop: learn how to avoid extra work by planning your story and all of its elements from the beginning.
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Have you ever wasted time writing rough drafts of stories as you wandered from scene to scene, unsure of how to connect the dots, and only realizing who your protagonist is after you reach what you think is the end of the story? Did you then need to go back and make massive revisions, reworking characters and scenes to make everything flow from the beginning? We can show you how to avoid much of that heartbreaking and time-consuming work. While it may seem like extra work, planning your story, its characters, and the world they inhabit from the beginning will save you time and effort in the long run—and knowing what you need to include will save you a great deal of trial and error. Handouts and worksheets to be provided. Attendees are encouraged to bring a three-ring notebook and plenty of paper to take notes.
In-depth workshop: learn how to bring stories to life and how to fill your writing with the details that matter.
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You have a clear direction for your story as well as an understanding of its main characters and its world. Now it’s time to breathe life into your creation. Effective scenes need to grip the reader and keep him or her engaged. You’ll learn how to improve your pacing and how to inject your scenes with emotion. You’ll learn what constitutes quality dialogue and how it operates, and you’ll learn how to truly bring stories to life and how to fill your writing with the details that matter. Exercises will walk attendees through crafting a rough draft of a scene. Handouts and worksheets to be provided. Attendees are encouraged to bring a three-ring notebook and plenty of paper to take notes.
Fiction Fundamentals Part 3: Putting on the Polish
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In-depth workshop: learn how to make your story sing through application of effective revision and editing techniques.
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You’ve completed the first draft of your story, and since you worked through all the steps of planning and carefully crafting each scene, that means you’re done, right? Not quite. Now’s the time to add layers and make sure that your themes ring true. Only by re-seeing your work can you discover the hidden wonders that your subconscious was working on throughout the drafting process. You probably have a fair amount of grunt work to do as well. All first drafts are littered with mistakes or weak writing. By becoming aware of common pitfalls, you can fix issues in your completed first drafts and begin to avoid them more effectively in future drafts. Handouts and worksheets to be provided. Attendees are encouraged to bring a three-ring notebook and plenty of paper to take notes.
New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole takes you through a series of exercises that builds a story from the barest spark through twists and turns.
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New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole takes you through a series of exercises that will let you build a story from the barest spark through twists and turns. He’ll give you several story recipes and show you how you can work from them to create delightfully complex and engrossing stories.
The Indiana Ghost Trackers, who have been around over 13 years, will train on investigation techniques, equipment usage, photography, EVP's, reviewing evidence, debunking and much more!
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The Indiana Ghost Trackers, who have been around over 13 years, will train on investigation techniques, equipment usage, photography, EVP's, reviewing evidence, debunking and much more! The class will include "hands on" equipment training, handouts and a certificate of completion. All proceeds fund the Indiana Ghost Trackers.
GMing is all about improvising. Professional improviser Brad Knight will teach you how to create cool NPC's on the spot and be able to keep the story going when PC's do something unexpected.
It's not impossible to workout and work as a freelancer! We'll show you a few simple workout moves that you can do between projects, or combine together for a full exercise regimen.