Mastering Fiction: Pattern Recognition—Challenging Your Readers to Create Stories that Compel
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In this seminar, learn how to draw your reader in by challenging their expectations, and take character building, plot progression, plot twists and setbacks, and world building to the next level.
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The ability to recognize patterns is a basic human trait. We use it over and over again in our fiction. This seminar discusses how to use patterns to your benefit by both setting and breaking expectations. Learn how to draw your reader in by challenging their expectations, and take character building, plot progression, plot twists and setbacks, and world building to the next level.
Mastering Fiction: Plotting Techniques of the Professional Writer
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In this seminar you’ll learn about plotting techniques, from basic structural concepts, initial plotting and eventual refinement, how to break writer’s block and how to avoid it in the first place.
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Plotting is one of the more difficult disciplines to master in writing. Some writers have an innate sense of what makes a story work, but most writers, particularly those early in their apprenticeships, will benefit from plotting. This seminar focuses on various plotting techniques, from basic structural concepts, initial plotting and eventual refinement, how to break the dreaded writer’s block and how to avoid it in the first place.
Mastering Fiction: Tension on Every Page—Ways to Create a Page-turning Novel
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In this seminar, learn about the different types of tension and how to maximize them to keep your reader glued to the page.
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Tension is one of the basic building blocks of modern day fiction. If you know how to lay the seeds of tension, and how to coax them, you can transform your fiction from merely noteworthy to exceptional. In this seminar, the different types of tension are discussed, as well as ways to maximize them to keep your reader glued to the page.
In this seminar, learn how to structure scenes that work, whether you’re writing a short story or the next breakout novel.
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Well-structured scenes make for compelling storytelling. How can you construct powerful scenes? And how do you string scenes together to create a vivid and stirring piece of writing? In this seminar, you’ll learn how to structure scenes that work, whether you’re writing a short story or the next breakout novel.
National Novel Writing Month: Pros, Cons, and Tips
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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo): thirty days to write a 50,000 word novel in November. Discuss the pros and cons with a decade-long WriMo and learn her handy tips to maximize the experience.
Networking and Promotion for Creators in the Online Age: Twitch TV, Podcasts, and Patreon
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Speculative fiction author, professor, podcaster, and TwitchTV channel host Gregory A. Wilson discusses how to leverage different creative backgrounds and fan bases into a successful online presence.
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Networking and promotion have always been critically important aspects of the life of a creator, making it possible for them to spread the word about a given work to a larger audience. With the advent of the Internet, online promotion via website and Facebook became ubiquitous, but we've now entered the second wave of online promotion, with new models rising to the fore. Speculative fiction author, podcaster, and TwitchTV channel host Gregory A. Wilson (author of the graphic novel Icarus, The Gray Assassin Trilogy from The Ed Greenwood Group, and co-host of the critically acclaimed Speculate! podcast) discusses how to leverage different creative backgrounds and fan bases into a successful online presence, and how mediums like TwitchTV, podcasts, and Patreon are changing the game for creators.