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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus Characterization Through Dialogue #WXR18
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What is key to dialogue? 1. Pay attention to how people speak.
Exercise: record a family conversation and transcribe what people say. Different generations, ages, backgrounds. Start to see how people talk. eg Gilmore Girls, Joss Whedon, Quentin Tarantino
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2. Good dialogue only evokes how people really talk. You don’t want to write how people really talk (um, uh, cussing). Straddle the line between how people really talk and how we wish they’d talk.
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And we're back #WXR18! DongWon Song @dongwon The Pitch
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Authors vs Writers. Anyone can be a writer. Big achievement! craft skills. MFA, writer’s groups. A professional author is a different job: career management, workflow, deadline/time management, networking, marketing and promotion, PITCHING.
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Always be pitching. Your pitch is not only for agents, it’s also for publishers, editors, marketing/publicity, sales. Build a readership, network with your peers, connect with booksellers, convince your family. A good pitch is a key element of achieving goals.
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K Tempest Bradford .@tinytempest Description, Language, and Writing Inclusive Fiction #WXR18
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These are things she’s learned, not things she knew. Ask, learn.
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Exercise: shows two pictures of two women and asks us to describe what they look like. Describing people who don’t look like you is another craft skill. Identity markers that students don’t usually touch on: race, class, religious status.
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Amal Al-Mohtar @tithenai Using Poetry to Write Prose #wxr18
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Audience questions: Why people don’t like poetry? High school English, rigidity of form, why is ambiguity a feature and not a bug, extraneous to story (e.g. LotR: @tithenai disagrees), make you work
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Talking about her experience writing a poem at the age of 7, parents were overjoyed about her art, to be a poet is a responsibility in her family to speak truth to power, following grandfather who wrote humorous poetry while incarcerated
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Up next! @PiperJDrake Piper J. Drake - Incorporating Romantic Elements in Any Story #WXR18 (there are handouts and one is labelled explicit! :O)
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What are romantic elements? Any moment that creates intimacy between characters. Sex =/= intimacy. Need intimacy to create a believable romance. Your reader will start to ‘ship that couple and that is gold.
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Both romances and thrillers are emotional rollercoasters. Romance is about hope. Thriller is about justice. Both create strong emotional bonds between the readers and characters.
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Next up: .@MaryRobinette Mary Robinette Kowal - Diagnosing Story Problems #WXR18
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Writer’s block can be a way of diagnosing that something’s gone wrong with a story. Four reactions: 1) drowsy: suddenly sleepy; 2) staring: how long can I look at the blank screen without putting words down; 3) restless: why am I suddenly in the kitchen?
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Drowsy writer's block: your story is boring you. back up to the last point that excited you and make a different, more dynamic choice.
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.@TheDanWells Dan Wells “First Chapters, First lines”. He's talking SUPER FAST so this is going to be a slightly delayed livetweet stream as I frantically take notes. #wxr18
@TheDanWells .@TheDanWells #WXR18 Early writers freak out over first chapters. Chillax. Just write whatever and come back and fix it later. or keep going til it gets good and cut the bad parts later. or Pantser: write chapter 1 last. however it works
.@TheDanWells #WXR18 What is the purpose of a first chapter? Better: what is the first chapter supposed to accomplish. 1. introduce the book; 2. make us love the main character; 3. Grab the reader's attention.
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.@BrandSanderson giving the first #WXR18 talk! "Developing Characters with Brandon Sanderson". Talking about difficulty in finding ways to present the material to people who've mostly seen his recorded lectures before.
@BrandSanderson .@BrandSanderson views his writing and writing instruction: Cook vs chef. Goal is to help people become metaphorical chefs. He can be a cook: he can follow instructions but doesn't understand WHY and can't fix if wrong. #WXR18
@BrandSanderson .@BrandSanderson #WXR18 biggest challenge in translating from consumer to producer of media. We know what a story should look like but some things won't turn out in your story and you won't know why. Very frustrating.
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