C.C. Harrison
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Plotting Practices - Tips, Practices, and Warnings
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2:00pm- 50 minutesWhether you outline your entire story or novel in advance or start without a plan, plotting takes place at some point in your process. Learn how different authors approach plotting, what tools and techniques do they use, and plotting traps to avoid.
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You Can Make it Up, But it Better be Right: The Value of Research in Fiction Writing
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11:00am- 50 minutesAnna Dalhaimer Bartkowski, Patricia Bonn, Roberta Gibson, Elaine Powers
Characters need to be true to her/his place in society and time. Use of 21st century verbiage won't make sense if the story is set in the American West of the 1800s. Neither will the polished language of an elitist Harvard grad fit a cartel member in Texas. Fantasy and paranormal writers are freer to make stuff up—they are the creators of their worlds. Most of us work in the real world and need to research some of the minutia that would catch the reader's eye as out of place in the story.
