11:00 - 12:00 Morning program:
Pennsylvania author Kathryn Craft will present a morning session titled “Developing a Confident Voice”. Readers respond to the confidence in an author’s tone. It’s that "mysterious something" that elevates prose beyond the ordinary. It inspires trust. The reader may not be able to analyze it, but he knows it when he sees it, and responds by continuing to read. Writers despair that author confidence is an intangible, bestowed by sensibility or absorbed by osmosis. Both may be true, but there's a third element: craft. In this presentation, writers will pick up tips to infuse their prose with confidence.
Afternoon workshop
Kathryn Craft: “I Wrote It, Now What?” based on the presenter's personal experience as well as the types of issues she encounters daily as a developmental editor, attendees will take a hard look at what it really means to "develop" a work of writing. Hint: It isn't only about dotting “i's” and crossing “t's”, and it can't possibly be addressed in one additional draft. Attendees will leave with a game plan for how to organize a multiple-drafting process that will bring to fruition the full potential of their work. Prerequisite: a near-to-fully drafted novel.
