Writer's Craft: How to Make a Living as a Writer—Part 1
Summary:
Turn the "Best Four Days in Gaming" into the launch pad for a career in storytelling with NYT-bestselling author David Farland. Bring your story!
Description:
Join New York Times bestselling author David Farland in the How to Make a Living as a Writer Seminar. It's an unprecedented opportunity for both new and experienced authors to take part in David Farland's fantastic writing courses. Each event includes an hour break for lunch. YOU DO NOT need to attend all three events! Attend as many or as few as you like. NOTE: Come prepared with an original story in mind regardless of the stage you're at (concept to completion)!
Writer's Craft: How to Make a Living as a Writer—Part 2
Summary:
Turn the "Best Four Days in Gaming" into the launch pad for a career in storytelling with NYT-bestselling author David Farland. Bring your story!
Description:
Join New York Times bestselling author David Farland in the How to Make a Living as a Writer Seminar. It's an unprecedented opportunity for both new and experienced authors to take part in David Farland's fantastic writing courses. Each event includes an hour break for lunch. YOU DO NOT need to attend all three events! Attend as many or as few as you like. NOTE: Come prepared with an original story in mind regardless of the stage you're at (concept to completion)!
Writer's Craft: How to Make a Living as a Writer—Part 3
Summary:
Turn the "Best Four Days in Gaming" into the launch pad for a career in storytelling with NYT-bestselling author David Farland. Bring your story!
Description:
Join New York Times bestselling author David Farland in the How to Make a Living as a Writer Seminar. It's an unprecedented opportunity for both new and experienced authors to take part in David Farland's fantastic writing courses. Each event includes an hour break for lunch. YOU DO NOT need to attend all three events! Attend as many or as few as you like. NOTE: Come prepared with an original story in mind regardless of the stage you're at (concept to completion)!
Writer's Craft: Interactive Fiction (aka Choose Your Own Adventure)
Summary:
Writing "choose your own adventure" stories isn't like any other type of writing. Learn from those who've done it what traps to avoid and how to make your CYOA narrative entertaining.
New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole gives you the “mission checklist” to make sure your novel is ready to publish.
Description:
New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole gives you the “mission checklist” to make sure your novel is ready to publish. He’ll cover the basics from how to know if you want to do one more draft, on through how to produce and package your book for sale. If you think you’re ready to pull the trigger on publishing, or if you want to make sure you’ve got all the pieces in place, this seminar will provide you with answers to all your questions, and some you didn’t even know you should ask.
Knowing when & how to kill an important character isn't always easy. Let some of genre fiction's most ruthless authors teach you how to get the maximum narrative impact from a character's death.
Learn techniques for weaving magic into your modern world stories without destroying civilization as we know it. A 'must attend' event for urban fantasy authors.
Writer's Craft: Making the Fantastic Feel Realistic
Summary:
Realism is important even for stories with fantastic elements. Learn how to give magic, starships, monsters, moderate Congressmen, & other unrealistic aspects of your story a realistic feel.
The events in your need structure &purpose to drive your narrative forward compellingly. Learn how to design plots with maximum impact -- & how to adjust it as you write, if necessary.