March 25, 26, 27, 28 2021
Thursday, March 25
What to Put In & What to Take Out: How to remove meaningless stuff from your prose, and put content back in.
12:00 - 1:25 Break and Breakout Room & Genre Networking Session
Selected Elements of Style
Style makes or breaks your chance of a sale. How to understand Style and make it your servant.
Friday, March 26
Full Day Writing Development Workshop J. D. Barker
8:30 am - 4:00 pm 12 Noon Break Included
Submit your novel in advance to have it critiqued by this number one international best selling author. Obviously not all submissions can be critiqued, but he will ask for volunteers, and choose a number of works at random if no one is willing.
One of the best ways to improve your writing is to have a mentor read and critique your work. Almost as good, and sometimes even better, is to hear the critique of other folks work and compare it to how you responded to the writing.
Thursday:
$30
$40
Friday:
Saturday & Sunday:
$50
All 4 Days:
$75
$95
ALL ON-LINE via Zoom!
Saturday, March 27 Overview
8:30 - 9:20
Harrison Demchick
It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine: Why character consequence and reaction are necessary for conflict and tension.
Tim Esaias
Getting Combat on the Page: Putting military theory into practice. Hands-on session.
Bad Math, or How Right and Left Brain Work Together: Why logic is so important to the magic of creative invention.
Don't be a Bobble-Head: Avoiding those story-killing cliche reactions
The Blueprint, or Building the Perfect Draft: How a well constructed outline helps craft a stronger story.
Those First Few Lines: Four ways to start your story, we'll try them out on your current project.
Sunday, March 28 Overview
Crossing Genres: From Indie to Traditional Every Dirty Little Secret You Need to Know!
J. D. Barker
Your questions answered!
Submit through the J D Barker QuestionLink in your registration confirmation email