Hone your craft. Be a better writer. Finish your projects. How, you might ask? Come see us for the low down on characters, climax, and structure. One stop shopping! Become a WGT member and save on admission.
This year's conference features:
Surf the Waves: Writing Compelling Characters - presented by author Amber Royer. Certain characters stick with you long after you've closed the book's pages. Other works may be technically perfect and yet the characters themselves are forgettable. We will delve into the importance of the reader's early emotional attachment and how to maintain that attachment throughout a novel.
Amber Royer the author of the high-energy comedic space opera Chocoverse series, (Free Chocolate and Pure Chocolate). She teaches enrichment and continuing education creative writing classes for teens and adults through both the University of Texas at Arlington and Writing Workshops Dallas.
Rip the Moon: A Storyteller's Guide to Story Climax - presented by screenwriter Daniel Wells. What would it take to Rip the Moon? We can measure force, torque, and gravity. But how does something that catastrophic happen? In this workshop "Rip the Moon," we will add an additional tool to the effective storytelling toolbelt for every storyteller, which can be revisited at every step of the development cycle from planning and execution, to writing queries and preparing for the big pitch.
Daniel Wells is a writer, lecturer, director and organizer within the worlds of screenwriting, fiction and film. He is Vice President of WORD, Creative Director of Dallas Screenwriting Crew, Municipal Liaison of NaNoWriMo, and Development Executive of Dallas Film Crew and the Production Company startup Luz Pictura.
Formed in Fire: Storysmithing with Passion and Precision presented by novelist, the lady in a big red cowboy hat -- and human extraordinaire, Arianne "Tex" Thompson. Should you write three acts or five? 'Save the Cat' or pants a zero-draft? And the $64 questions: is there life outside the Hero's Journey?
If you are long on plotting advice and short on certainty, have no fear: there is a process and a story structure that will suit you perfectly and we are going to find it! Forget the formulas and prepare to take your place at the forge!
Arianne "Tex" Thompson is a 'rural fantasy' author, egregiously enthusiastic speaker, and professional ruckus-raiser. She is the author of Children of the Drought, an internationally-published epic fantasy Western series from Solaris, as well as an instructor of WRiting Workshops Dallas and 'chief instigator" at WORD -- Writers Organization 'Round Dallas.
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- $55-$110
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