Explore the difference between a true short story and a simple vignette, and learn why it’s so important to understand the distinction. Plus, get tips that will help you to avoid getting it wrong!
Short Fiction: The Short Fiction Submissions Process from Inspiration to Celebration
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Learn what it's really like to submit short fiction as one man breaks down his sales and demystifies the process from choosing the right market to collecting rejections...and the eventual acceptance!
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Learn what it's really like to submit short fiction as one man breaks down his sales and demystifies the process from choosing the right market to collecting rejections...and the eventual acceptance! This presentation will include hard data and even harder jokes.
With so few words to tell your tale in a short story, it is vitally important to start in the right place, and in this panel we’ll help you to figure out where that is.
A group of Symposium panelists play Storium, the online storytelling game, live for the audience! Proceeds will go to charity.
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Storium (storium.com) turns creative writing into an online multiplayer game, using mechanics inspired by role-playing games, story games, and card games. In this session, Symposium panelists will play Storium live on stage, for you, the audience! Your admission fee will go to support charity (the exact organization to be decided prior to the event). What's more, you'll be able to influence the story by making donations during the game session itself! Join us for laughs, absurdity, and a great story told by amazing writers, all for a great cause.
Join the team from Baen Books as they announce the winner of the 2016 Baen Fantasy Adventure award and give a preview of some of the great new books coming from Baen in the coming year.
Join O&F Podcast for their annual LIVE mega-cast! It’s an epic blend of snarky fun, awesome prizes, and Yoda-like writing wisdom with Robin Hobb, Steve Bein, Scott Lynch, Mur Lafferty and more!
If you’ve dreamed of writing for your favorite video game, we’ll teach you how to get into the industry, how to build a portfolio, what the job actually entails, how to interact with a team, and more.
Writing for games involves a team of people, including art, design, marketing, and more. We’ll teach you how to successfully adapt your solitary writer’s personality to work well on a creative team.
Video Game Writing: Game Stories vs Stories for Other Media
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Discover what makes writing for video games a unique challenge, how to write great stories for video games, and tricks for making sure that your writing delivers real value in the video game industry.
Video Game Writing: Make it Bigger! Make it Cooler!
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You ended the last game with the final battle of the apocalypse—and now they want you to do it all again, only bigger! Learn how to turn your video game stories up to 11 without jumping the shark.