DATE: November 17, 2012
CONTACT: Janice M.Yuwiler
LOCATION/TIME: 2-4 pm, Room106, Hahn School of Nursing at the University of San Diego
Our November meeting won’t cover just one topic but five! After we come together for chapter and member news, we’ll go in five different directions for break out workshops. Please read the descriptions below and choose the one that’s best for you.
Graphic Novels with Eric Shanower: In this workshop, we’ll concentrate on preparing a comics script for an artist, you or another, to draw from. From the nuts-and-bolts of how description and dialog can be laid out in script form to the practicalities of panel transitions, in addition to the headier subjects of communicating character and setting. Please bring your manuscript equaling a maximum of five comics pages.
www.ericshanower.com
Writing Lively Nonfiction with Gretchen Woelfle: We’ll address writing lively nonfiction using the elements of fiction: plot, character, setting, narrative voice, etc. If you've started your book already, bring a picture book manuscript (900 words or less,) or a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of a longer book. Also bring a lively 100-word “flap-copy” description of your book. Come bearing your favorite nonfiction children’s books too.
www.gretchenwoelfle.com
Using Dummies for Picture Books with Andrea Zimmerman: When develop- ing picture books, one of the most helpful and least used tools is a dummy. In this hands-on workshop, participants will take a picture book story and look for ways to improve it in terms of "The Four P's" -- plot, pacing, potential for illustration, and page turns by creating a dummy to visualize and evaluate the work as a finished book. Bring: pen, pencil, scissors, tape and two copies of a double-spaced picture book manuscript to cut up. (It can be your own or someone else’s).
www.andreaanddavid.com
Muddling through the Middle Grade Novel with Barry Summy: If you're a plotter, bring your synopsis and/or your outline. If you're a “seat of the pantster,” bring your story ideas. We'll talk plot points and scenes from your work and from published books as we muddle through the middle grade novel.
www.barrysummy.com
Tending to Character in the YA Novel with Stacey Goldblatt: We’ll take time to establish a common knowledge base about compelling characters while spending the majority of our time tending to the characters in our own novels through discussion/sketching/diagramming and free-writing. We’ll explore the truths and non-negotiables of our characters and how those truths create conflict and drive their actions. The more we know about our characters, the more we can understand how to navigate through plot as spearheaded by said characters. Please bring the first chapter of your work in progress, your writer’s notebook/journal/paper and your favorite YA novel.
www.staceygoldblatt.com.